Madison wasn’t naive. She knew how pregnancy happened. She and Cillian had been told many times, however, that there was no chance a viable pregnancy would happen between them without magical intervention. It usually worked that way between different species, as it were. There was nothing against relations between people from different factions, and some even encouraged it, but it still required magical intervention to produce children. It was such a popular form of magic that some witches could make a living doing that work alone.
Neither Madison nor Cillian ever discussed the possibility of needing that help because they simply hadn’t thought about children yet. Cillian was in the midst of a war before Madison had died, and that was the worst time to have a child. As for Madison, she w
