Complications

“I’m sorry sir, but there are some complications.

“The situation is serious?”

“Your friends here, well, we’re going to- hold on. One second sir. I’m stepping out of the room to a more private space. Sir, are you there sir?

“Yeah.”

“Sir, the triplets are showing indicators of late-stages intra-uterine developmental-coalescence.”

“I understand all of those words, just not the way you are using them.”

“Layman’s terms?”

“Sure.”

“The babies are balling up inside, to each other, basically have already balled up.”

“What?”

“We can try and separate them, but it’s sensitive.”

“‘Balled up?’”

“Sir, sometimes with triplets, something happens on the cellular level; we don’t fully understand why, but the separated cells try and join-up again. After a certain stage of development, the result is a conjoined multi-fetal assemblage. Okay? Okay, let me ask you this, have you ever made a ball out of silly putty? Gak, even, if, like me you were a 90’s pre-teen.”

“I, no. I didn’t. I was not, I–”

“Sir, please try and imagine the task of attempting to disconnect and subsequently reassemble something even dimly human from…