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mahler said nothing, only took the child gently into his jaws and followed. 
he had the distinct feeling he had interrupted laurel in some silent communion — of course he had.
abel, a boy. wintersbane's son, he expected.
and indra —
mahler was suddenly flushed with a chill. indra was the name of the sister who had been killed by the ursus wolf merrick.
indra — she had given this child the name of her passed sister?
an homage he could not question, and yet.
mahler followed, laying abel where she indicated and standing back, all in the same attentive wordlessness.
"i am going to leave now. i vill be back in some hours, vonce i have put together some medicines for after birth."