"What are we suppose to do with it now, you heard the council. Because it wasn't their firstborn son, we don't send it to its death. But it was still their first born child, technicalities like this is why I left the damned council. That and it was so dull I nearly fell asleep." Lucina spoke with her hands on her hips over the small bassinet. 

"Why should we do anything with it at all? It's a human child, leave it in the woods and let it fend for itself." Melanie spoke with distaste. She made a face at the newborn child who was fast asleep in the bassinet.

"Melanie! Have you no heart!? We can't just leave it out there, we have a duty to see this to the end. No matter what the council says." She laid her hand on the sma...

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