Biting her lip, she pushed her food around her plate; her mouth had gone suddenly dry and the food hard to chew and she wondered why this was harder to bring up than she originally had thought it would be. “Quite tragic,” She agreed. “I had heard of it when I was at a ball last week. She was only a block away from where I was. Had I known, I wish I could have helped her.” The mere thought of the poor woman going into labor so close with no comfort (apparently the father had perished just before she’d found out about the pregnancy), distressed Adrienne to the point where she had laid awake thinking about her. She even went as far to inquire the woman’s name and sent her flowers. Anonymous of course.

“I’ve done some training in midwifery in the past, including interning under a local midwife.” Her trainings with Miss Moony had been most effective in her education. “It made me wonder where I would be had I continued learning the subject.” Even if she couldn’t help the woman on the day of the dragon attack, it wasn’t as if there was a shortage of expecting mothers in the world.

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