Lek was about to start picking flowers when a blue glint by the spring caught his eye. He went over and found a blue stone at the edge of the spring. He picked it up, it was about half the size of his thumb, tear shaped and looked to have been part of a necklace at once time. Lek rinsed it off and used a corner of his tunic to polish the stone. Lek though it looked almost as beautiful as Pinja's eyes. He put the stone in his pocket and went back to picking flowers.

Sileas sat down on a fallen log and lowered her head into her hands. Everything was royally messed up. She should be overjoyed, but she should be celebrating the baby news with Larrigan. Wulfsen wouldn't want her now and she would be the village pariash. She wiped at her eyes. And her best friend was bound and determined to keep her in a state of illness for the extent of the pregnancy.

Wulfsen ran into the garden.

"Sileas?" he called.

Sileas caught her breath and held it. She wasn't ready to face Wulfsen yet. But a dandelion wisp floated near her nose and tickled it, bringing about a sneeze.

Wulfsen heard the sneeze and found SIieas. She looked terrible! Still beautiful but not well, she looked like she had been crying. Wulfsen rushed over, his arms gently going around her.

"Sileas, what's wrong?"

"Yehudit slapped Mama and kept verbally attacking her," Sileas wailed, trying to ignore her own situation for just a little while longer.

"Why did she do that?" Wulfsen asked, rubbing Sileas's back.

"Because Mama was scolding me and she didn't like it," Sileas replied. She lowered her head once again, her hair falling forward to curtain her face.

"What ever could your mother be scolding you for?" Wulfsen drew Sileas closer as he sat down. He did not get it, Sileas was an adult. They were betrothed, he had gotten her father's blessing, they had not done anything improper. He gently swept Sileas's red hair from her face to look into her eyes.

Sileas sighed. "I was hoping to avoid this conversation until I could figure out how to tell you. About a month and a half ago, I expressed my concern to Larrigan that I wouldn't be able to...to...be intimate with him. Secure in the knowledge that I couldn't have children and not wanting to disappoint him when it was too late, we had relations. Once." Sileas closed her eyes. "And it turns out that I wasn't as barren as Difyr had believed."

"I don't mind that. You already told me that you and Larrigan became intima- what do you mean?" Wulfsen asked, confused.
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Sileas took a deep breath. She so wasn't ready to tell him this. "I wasn't seasick after all and it wasn't anything ate. I'm carrying Larrigan's babe. I want to be happy about it, but I've ruined everything."

"You're pregnant?" Wulfsen was stunned. He had thought that would be impossible.

"That was what Difyr said when she examined me," Sileas whispered. "Everything is just in a toss now."

"Wow." Wulfsen was in a state of shock. "I was still getting used to being a father to Oscar. Now we're going to have a baby."

"I'm sorry," she whispered. Sileas had been so certain of rejection that his words didn't reach her. "I'll have Papa take me to Farthington or somewhere."

Not everything was reaching Wulfsen either.

"What are you sorry about?" Wulfsen asked, dazedly.

"I'm sorry that I've disappointed you and have destroyed our chance at happiness." She got to her feet. "I will arrange transportation to Grandpapa's. If I had anything, I would pack." Tears streaked down her cheeks.

"What?!" Wulfsen jumped to his feet. "You've done no such thing- why are you leaving?"

"For several reasons. People are going to talk and demean me, they'll never accept my little one. And it will hurt too much to see you every day, knowing what would have been if I hadn't destroyed another relationship."

Wulfsen gaped. "You aren't going to marry me?"

Sileas stared back. "I didn't think you would want me now. You...you still do?"

"Sileas I love you, I want to marry you." Wulfsen said, feeling hurt that Sileas thought he was not going to marry her over this.

Sileas smiled widely. "I love you too, and I want to marry you too!"

"I just... Need a minute to process this is all." Wulfsen wrapped his arms around Sileas and kissed her.