Duskfire Glacier i just want you to get out

She would have sought to soothe over any difficulties Lane faced but...she mentioned Mahler. It was a distraction to her professional mind!

"He spoke fondly of you."

Heat in the face! He had made it clear how he had felt, surely he did not go about speaking such fondness for her behind her back. Surely, surely this was all doctors being doctors. Fondness for the work of each other...

She had accidentally grown a bit sheepish in such heavy distraction. How awful it was to be so easily shifted by the mention of the lilac man.

Oh, ah, A quick soft hum to regain her composure. I have heard of raspberry leaves to help ease pain for mothers.

Although her brow knit close in slight concern.

Is it contractions...or something else?