The wrinkled old woman sat on her blanket surrounded by brilliant gemstones and jewelry from all corners of the Agave Sea and the lands beyond Gracklen. The blanket was old, too, with broad black and red stripes. Surrounded by Draxxt"s equivalent of agates, pearls, moonstones, turquoise, jade, and silver, the old woman peered from behind hooded eyes at the tall figure standing in front of her, not knowing it was her new queen who asked for her help.
“Fertility?” she croaked. “The finest moonstones here in a bracelet, my lady, for a modest price.” She gazed to the heavens and uttered a charmed word. “The moonstone, like on the old world from which we all traveled millennia ago, my lady, is a charm against infertility. It"s what you want, I think, this bracelet, clasped with pearls, and stu
