Chapter 232

• [Carnelia]
• “A moment, please,” I call out. “I’m awake but not dressed. I am feeling…shy about my body.” My words aren’t exactly a lie, but they are far from the truth. I am dressed, but I can’t have her looking at my body as it is. I have been nesting in the time she’s been away and my form has returned to its pre-maternal state, now that I’m not carrying any precious cargo within me.
• The Grand Magus pauses. “Motherhood is a blessed state; there is nothing to be embarrassed about, Aka’naha…”