Challenge #04375-K357: Medically Approved Distraction

The poor havenworlder was eggbound. And the humans were only working with the most basic of medical as that was all that was available in this emergency. They were asked... please sing? It helped the pain of a difficult delivery. -- Anon Guest

[AN: Knowing a little about what to do for eggbound birds, the usual solution is to very carefully break the egg]

It should have been easy. It should have been an hour or two of relatively difficult work, and then she'd have an egg to nurse until it hatched. It was not, in fact, that easy. Her egg was stuck, partially emerged from her cloaca.

"It's going to be all right" insisted her Companion Human. "Just breathe, okay? Anything that helps with the pain."

"I can't... I can't," panted Vie. "It hurts..."

Human Quill glanced to the Ship's Medik, and instantly improvised. "All right. Uh. The old songs of your history. The mothering melody. You know that one right? How's it go?" Quill immediately started getting it wrong.

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