Alessia answered for both of the women. "I... I... I..."
Cetara then cut in, her arm curling around Alessia. "I'm sorry my lady, she's taken it very hard. The children, all of them, were taken in the dead of night. We fell asleep, and woke up to find the babies gone. Different time for each of us. Maybe a month for me, but only a couple of days for Alessia. And it's the first she's lost. It gets easier over time. That's about all I can say."
She rubbed the back of her companion, trying to sooth her, before looking up into the Hegni's face. "There was one other thing, now I think of it. My room was damp afterwards. Strange, because it hadn't rained that night."