Theora then turned to her dad.
"That's when you met Mom?"
Hamel nodded with a nostalgic smile, but it was Quil who spoke next.
"It took us a few more weeks to get here," she admitted. "And by then... Astoria's pregnancy couldn't be hidden anymore. The Southerners even had one of their healers travel with us because, well, they were concerned, but she refused to stay put, and she just wanted us to get to Wordin Valley before you arrived."
"They arrived a few weeks before you were born," Hamel smiled at the memory. "Astoria was perfectly healthy, thanks to Yanheim and his people taking good care of her. She marched right into my house late one evening, Quil on her heels, asking for a doctor, and I was, uh... a bit stunned, but of course, I did what I could. I'd just become a doctor myse
