"Sally M" smanton@hotmail.com wrote:

Anna wrote: "The Liberator isn't a very practical place to raise children, and Cally's a dedicated revolutionary--the only one in the crew besides Blake who chose to dedicate herself to fighting the Federation."

Not so much, however, by the time Ellynne's talking about - she lost a lot of her fire when they lost Fearless Leader. Though I take your point about choosing not to go to Kaarn.

It's something to remember, of course, that being 'Earth-Mother'-y does no necessarily equate with being motherly in the ordinary sense, and Cally, not by nature a warm person, is emotionally distant during the latter part of S3 anyway. She would be conscientious of course, but mightn't *necessarily* bond with what would be as much a half-alien offspring forced on her as it would be to Avon.

Would Avon have anything against having said child fostered to a good home until it was past the 'poking sticky fingers where it shouldn't' stage? (Orac would second this idea no doubt).

Jacqui