The Nursery
The Nursery is where the silo's children are born, the gentle face of its strictest rule: population held in careful balance, with the chance at a child granted only by lottery.
The Nursery is where the silo's children come into the world. Birth in the silo is not left to chance: population is held in strict balance, and the right to try for a child is granted by lottery, one permission issued when one place opens. Couples wait years for their number to come up, and many wait forever. The Nursery is the destination of the lucky: delivery rooms, incubators behind glass, and the doctors and staff who see the silo's newest lives safely into it. Located in the silo's upper half, it is a place wrapped in longing and ceremony, where the community's tightest rule, the rationing of life itself, wears its gentlest face.
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