The Sunspire A claim on the mountain

"Thank you," Rannoch acknowledged with a smile. To her inquiry, Rannoch shook his head. "Unfortunately, we don't," he replied once he had considered the talents of his subordinates— none of them specialized in medicine. "We have a midwife, though," he acknowledged; Olive had said that she had been studying plants in her time as a vagabond. "Do you?" he asked. 

"I'd love to accept that offer," Rannoch replied with a wave of his tail. "Perhaps Cassiopeia and I can come in the Spring when the weather is better, and the pack has settled?" He glanced at Cassiopeia then and hoped that she would be willing to join him.