"Couple reasons. There's the possibility it'll be found illegal, once people realize it can be done, for one thing. The country I'm from and the country where the company is set up both don't allow you to own human beings, but they do have laws protecting what's called intellectual property - a technique or an idea you can use to make money that you don't want to give people access to. The recipe, in this case. If no one knows your intellectual property is actually people, you can keep control of it easier."

She exhales. "Also for control. My sisters and I are all adults now, and it's reasonable to think most or all of us are kind of angry about someone thinking they own us. And, um. You know I go to the healing tent regularly? That disease is something they created by accident in an effort to keep us from being able to have kids of our own."

So all this is pretty fucked, really.