She swallows hard, contemplating what she should divulge; she doesn't wish to violate her friend's privacy, yet the doctor might have some useful information to offer up; Margaret decides to update him but keep the pregnancy a secret, "I managed to get a few short words out of her but not much. She ate breakfast and lunch, though she is...distant."

He hands the items to her, nodding slowly, "It is something I have seen before, though not in a long time. It was after the Battle that I first noticed it in a few men and centaurs—they'd have waking nightmares. Small things would trigger them, like the sharpening of a...