Sun Mote Copse How can we live in charcoal towns?

Eljay saw nothing visibly wrong with Towhee, much to his great relief. However, something was clearly bothering her. While he was still scanning for wounds or oddities on her body, Towhee already filled in the blanks in that she wasn't physically hurt at all. Eljay breathed a sigh of relief that might be audible to the attentive listener, while Towhee explained the rest of it all. His frown returned when she mentioned going to see Raven and hearing that she was not able to have children.

The children seemed fairly cool with this news, or at least didn't seem to share the grief that Towhee did. But Eljay understood; he would feel bad if he would find out he was not able to have children, too. I'm sorry, he said, frowning.

But there was an interest from the depths of his midwifery there too, and it was piqued when Fennec asked how even she could tell such a thing. Eljay looked at Towhee inquisitively as it might help his own work along to learn of such a thing, though he stayed on the back burner with Nellie as he didn't want to intrude.