As progressive as Piotr is for his time, that's really relatively speaking -- for a society that just went from horseback to spaceflight in a single generation, some pills are a little too big to swallow all at once. Piotr purses his lips at Kaidan.

"Yes, that seems to be the fashion among galactics, too," he mutters, giving the mare a pat on her back as he sidles out of the stall. "I find it a touch unnatural for my tastes, and if you ask around camp, you'll get the same answer, save for my wife, belike. If you ask me, tampering with a perfectly natural and mundane biological process as childbirth is wholly unnecessary."