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a pause, but tavina did not let it linger. "you are skilled and devoted and kind. you would be a fine mother, nazli."

but she remembered the distended, pained girl; she remembered the blood and the spell that qiao had given;

and the healers;

nazli did not need to choose that. the knowledge that the young woman thought of her as mother brought a look of plain delight to the sesh's face. "i'm humbled you think so much of me." but she would not smoulder with tears here. "tell me what brought the idea of children to your mind."