Location:Seven Peaks — Medicine Hall, Residential Quarter, Spirit Garden
Date/Time:TC1854.01.15-16 — Dawn to Evening
The baby came at dawn.
Clara Ashwood had been in labor for eleven hours — long by any standard, longer still for a woman whose body had spent the last six months bathed in spiritual energy at concentrations that hadn't existed on Ascara in eight hundred years. The prenatal formulas Lin Yue had prescribed since TC1853.07 had done exactly what they were designed to do: support fetal development, strengthen forming meridians, give the child the best possible foundation for a life in the new world.
What nobody had anticipated was how thoroughly that foundation would take.
