Local Custom
“Such attention is doubly necessary in the case of one who has the honor to bear a child for an allied clan. In this instance, the child's clan must instruct the Healer in addition to blur memory and assuage any painful emotions the mother may otherwise experience.A Healer should also be summoned before the one who gave the child-seed rejoins his own kin. —From The Liaden Code of Proper Conduct THE CHILD SHALL receive all care, nuturance and tutelage . . . Sleep again, darling . . . Even among... Terrans, a pleasure-love must yield to a wife . . . I am not a thief, to steal our son . . . No sparkles!The clan shall show its gratitude—"Anne?"Gasping, she spun, hands outflung, half-curled and protective.Er Thom caught both, his fingers shockingly warm, reassuringly strong. Her friend, her love, her ally against Liad and the terrors of Liaden custom—Who had lied, after all, and stolen her son; who came to bed with endearments in his mouth even as he planned to wed someone other—"Anne!" His grip tightened; worried violet eyes looked up at her out of a face that showed clear consternation.She made a supreme, racking effort.MoreLess
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