Broken Antler Fen It's all there in the gospels

"Is that really a family trait?" Wraen laughed, counting in her mind all the Blackthorns she knew that had had numerous offspring and only two pairs known to her came to mind: Finley and Elwood; Liffey and Rannoch. The rest - at least those guys she had met - boasted about many great things in their lives, but children were not among them. "I know at least a handful, who have not had a single kid, but I can't say for sure, whether it is because of choice or circumstances," she shrugged. 

"But I know for sure that they are adventurers in heart," she told him. "And, since you have come all the way down here, I understand that you are no homebody, are you?" Wraen teased him gently. "How is Mal and the pack doing? Last I saw him in autumn, he was looking for a missing kid," she moved on with the conversation, hoping that Jackalope would fill in on the news.