"Oh, oh no," Koshchei replies, sounding rather horrified. "No wonder they frightened."
Shortly, it's rather like someone has kicked over an anthill, with hungover servants, including the cook, going into action. Skellig and Koshchei are pressed into service to help with making a fortifying broth for Ludmilla and the other ladies. Cordials believed to be helpful are being dragged out of the cellar, ingredients for foods believed to help in recovery after birth are being fetched from storerooms.
Those are the activities that might in some way be practical. Others...less so. Offerings made to various gods and goddesses are in the works as are many more behaviors that are frankly superstitious: untying every knot that they can find, things straightened, shutters opened. The illusion of control, of being able to affect an event so hazardous as child birth, has resulted in LOTS of superstitions.
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Shortly, it's rather like someone has kicked over an anthill, with hungover servants, including the cook, going into action. Skellig and Koshchei are pressed into service to help with making a fortifying broth for Ludmilla and the other ladies. Cordials believed to be helpful are being dragged out of the cellar, ingredients for foods believed to help in recovery after birth are being fetched from storerooms.
Those are the activities that might in some way be practical. Others...less so. Offerings made to various gods and goddesses are in the works as are many more behaviors that are frankly superstitious: untying every knot that they can find, things straightened, shutters opened. The illusion of control, of being able to affect an event so hazardous as child birth, has resulted in LOTS of superstitions.