(Kaelen)
Mira doesn't make a production of it.
That's what she appreciates most, after — that Mira just looks at the results and then looks at her and says "yes" in the same voice she uses for everything. Clinical. Matter-of-fact. The voice of someone who has delivered this information many times and understands that what people need in the first thirty seconds is accuracy, not ceremony.
"Yes," Mira says. "You are."
Kaelen sits on the low bed in the healer's wing and looks at the wall and says nothing.
"Early," Mira adds. "Six weeks, approximately. Maybe seven." She makes a note on something without looking up. "We'd want to confirm with a proper examination in the next two weeks. But the results are clear."
"Okay," Kaelen says.
She's aware that her voice sounds like someone reading
