"Well, now that you mention it, are there any taboos I should avoid? Apart from harming a hist tree of course. I don't want to give a sour first impression." Ariel asked, looking down into the water. It would be a long time before they actually came upon Black Marsh, but she figured she would ask Meesei while the question was fresh in her mind.

Fendros put his arm over Ahnasha's shoulder and held her close. He looked into her eyes, then glanced down at her stomach. Smiling, he ran his other hand over her stomach, curious. "Ahna, I'd been wondering about it all day, but I think you're beginning to show." He said quietly into her ear. It was difficult to perceive at first, but Ahnasha's navel had the slightest change over the course of the past day and night. A slight bulge uncharacteristic to her normal figure. Even if he had accepted the fact in his own mind, the physical presence of the child was quite another feeling in Fendros' mind. A buzz ran over his brain that he suppose he would describe as excitement.