Redsand Canyon dunefruit

tamar was pensive and quiet.

"my mother was a midwife. i went with her to three births, when i was a child." her voice was soft. she wants to speak of those times but she did not want towhee to ask about them.

she was not sure how she could answer.

"i was too young to remember all of what happened. but i do know that sometimes children do not survive. and sometimes mothers do not. i think i am frightened a little of those things."