Once a large pot of water has been set over the fire to begin to boil, the other women leave to go find a fetch rags - surely one of the other servants of the house will know! Their hangovers are going to be in for a rude awaking very shortly.

"Not injured," Skellig offers as reassurance. "Humans...they...can be complicated, when it comes to giving birth to a child. It is much like how most mammals give birth to their young, except often a woman will require more assistance due to..."

He motions awkwardly with his hand, trying to think of how to word this. "The body relaxes and things...shift. But the infant must still come free from the mother...through the way the man entered her in the first place to give his seed to her."