Moonspear you're not a romantic.

"A bastard is someone who was not meant to be born- a mistake. An affair." She momentarily frowned thinking how her bastardly father managed to catch their mother, but at the same time, Desdemona has very faint memories of her. She has no idea what kind of.. Canine, she would be. Remembering her donor's wife as well, how could anyone stay with a man who slept around?

"I do not know," the guard answered truthfully, "the thought never came." She always felt, even if she wasn't bastardly so, it wasn't in her nature to be motherly. Seeing the parents from her homeland act so cold to their offspring, she didn't want to do the same. She wouldn't do the same, but feared the cycle.