LORELAI

I woke up sick again, shivering a little under the intensity of the feeling. The night was still dark, a slight breeze blowing in through the window.

I untangled myself from limbs and went to the bathroom. I splashed my face with water, then took a sip of the potion that had been left for me on the bedside table.

It instantly calmed the thrashings of my nausea and I breathed a sigh of relief.

I held my protruding stomach, the roundness noticeably growing every day. I knew human pregnancies didn’t normally grow so quickly, that I was really going to test the limits of my body in the...