Once Katerina was fed, Dominic rocked the little one to sleep, humming a lullaby that he remembered his mother humming when he was little.
As Alexis' soft snores filled the room, the midwife leaned over to whisper to Dominic.
"That one is going to be just like her parents, in all the best and worst ways. Look how she smiles when you hum old war ballads to her."
Dominic chuckled. "Well, I've heard alternate versions of it as well. But I do rather like it in its original wording. But my mother used to hum it to me this way, and it always put me to sleep.
I think that the witches will have something ready by morning that will reduce the issues with sharp claws and dragon fire.
They would have told me by now if they didn't think they could do it."
"That will be wonderful. The Duchess should be back into reasonably mobile shape in a day or two, with the healing we've given her.
