The physician looked very earnestly at him. But the chances aren't good. The second month is usually too early for putting a fetus in vitro. They had waited for hours. Hope is a dangerous drug.
Nothing can do more than hope, and nothing can devastate more than the end of hope.
He had seen it on battlefields before, and he saw it in Madeleine's eyes when they finally gave her a tranquilizer to calm her after hours of exhausting crying. The physician lowered his head. It's as we feared. The embryo itself suffered injuries during the explosion. They can't do anything.