such an interesting little story!
i love how it mixed so many different topics - male pregnancy, coming of age or life altering choices (depending on how you see such things), owning your own body or owing someone something simply for being born and having nothing to say about it, choosing your own suffering for that or your family and i guess in a sense even touching slavery but not in the typical format.

and all that in about 30 pages!

which is basically the only problem i had with this story.
it’s so short and pushes so many different topics in one little thing that i just found it all a bit rash and too fast moving.

there is an alien world and creatures and i never felt as if we got an actual real description that was really complete. maybe that was on purpose. it’s not necessary for what the story does.
who cares about the planet how everything looks in detail if it actually is about how the human race that found refuge there has to “pay rent”?

i am interested to see what this author does with a bit longer works and will see what she has that might peek my interests because the idea and the writing was fantastic!