As Hilda read the report on her Desk, she couldn't help but feel some irritation as the federation was once again asking her to get her monthly insemination as her ovulation approached.
Even though she recently became the youngest General in the whole world, her power still lacked the means to ignore what they said.
It wasn't that she didn't want to do it, it was just that she found the whole thing troublesome. As a workaholic, the fact that she would have to sit out of work for at least a whole year after giving birth was something that filled her with dread.
"Miss, the doctors are in the lobby now." A voice interrupted her thoughts.
Looking up, she saw Cassie with her aid.
"Don't worry, miss, you're already 45, just five more years and you'll no longer have to do these inseminations." Cassie said with a smile as she looked at her boss.
Every time this time of the month came, the general would be particularly grumpy.
And after spending almost 20 years together since military school, Cassie could say she knew the general better than herself.
Including how to cheer her up.
"How about we get some prime steak tonight, my treat." Cassie said as she helped the general up.
Steak or most meat altogether was now considered somewhat of a delicacy, ever since the event thousands of years ago.
So, just a normal outing for steak would cost the average worker at least one month's pay, and that was if they were getting the lowest kind of steak.
"Alright, Alright, let's just get this over with, I swear the federation's pregnancy laws are too strict." Hilda grumbled as she let Cassie drag her away.
In this world ruled by the federation, there were two sets of laws you never wanted to break, and those were the Male Laws and the Pregnancy Laws.
Pretty much the whole reason the federation even exists today.
And it's not like Hilda was against those laws, she just found them tedious.
As a Major General, she had a lot of access to Men, so much access that it would make some women who only ever heard of men question the legitimacy of the system they lived in.
But even though she had all this access, to her men were mostly boring and self-centered. She couldn't really see how some women would do everything in their power just to fuck a man once. Heck, no man she ever saw had even made her feel the even the tiniest bit lustful.
She could even remember the first time she saw a naked man, all she felt was a sort of disappointment.
Of course, she never told anyone these thoughts of hers, because in a world where men were pretty much a scarce resource, not wanting or desiring them would make people think you had a mental problem. And the last time someone in her position said that they weren't that interested in men, they pretty much lost their position and power within days.
As task-oriented women, it didn't take long for Hilda to get back from her monthly insemination.
It only took a couple of minutes before she went right back to her Office to do her paperwork.
The monthly insemination was something all adult women over 30 had to do if they were still childless. While most women could only get an insemination with a needle. Women with higher positions or power in society were able to get a real man to come do their monthly insemination.
Of course, for our 45-year-old virgin Hilda, needle insemination was better and faster. As she didn't have to try to please someone whom she saw as beneath herself.
Once the Insemination was completed and Hilda was back at her Desk, all the grumpyness she had for the week went away, and she went back to doing what she loved, which was paperwork and securing more funding for her troops.
She truly loved just doing paperwork, while she sometimes missed being out in the field, every time she saw her stack of paperwork become less and less, it just filled her with a type of joy she couldn't explain.
As for the insemination that just happened, it was already in the back of her head; she had been getting monthly inseminations since she turned 30 and still had yet to have a child.
While the physical reports said that she was healthy and fertile, Hilda had long since given up any hope of having children.
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As the month went by, Hilda could feel something was different about her body. But without much thought, she just went back to her normal schedule, thinking it was just her body's reaction to eating nutrition bars instead of actual food for the last three months.
That was until her monthly physical came up right just before her monthly insemination.