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When Giana began to list her questions, Ragna settled, sphinx-like, to listen. Giana didn't ask anything Ragna didn't already know the answer to, though Ragna was surprised to hear Giana was already thinking of children. The shieldmaiden remained impassive through Eshamun's explanation, her expression betraying no great emotion. Yet she was curious to hear how Giana would feel about the illidu-dam, the sacrifice of newborns to the hungry god Molech. Was the woman so desperate to bear children that she would allow the sacrifice of one? Perhaps she would flee, thus making Ragna the only outsider to have been welcomed into the fold. She thought of this with a savage glee, for though she would welcome Giana, a part of her still jealously guarded the red wolves of the Malkaria.