"All of the pregnant women you see in the room, with the exception of Brigitte, are pregnant as a result of a human/wolf breeding. Brigitte is pregnant as a result of her accidental conception before she believed she would be fertile. My father is the father of her child. She is sixty years of age, older than my mother is, but can continue to have children until around 270 or 280 years of age. Once she got pregnant, she can no longer shift. Shifting puts too much strain on the fetus, so pregnancy hormones, end her ability to change forms. She's stuck as a human until she delivers.

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