Beka is not sure what she was expecting as a result of walking into a snake monster but an Elf city would have been very low on a list of possibilities if someone had jumbled a lot of random words together into place-phrases and had her rank them. "Elf city" would probably have been under "spider void" and above "grape juice ocean". And yet here she is.
And after a while - "Okay. Let me or someone else know if anything's wrong - I'll introduce the engineers when they arrive -" and to the guards - "take Beka upstairs, please -"
Guards take Beka!
Congratulations on being the least mysterious girl with a baby to be randomly dropped on my fortress so far this year!!
I kind of think this is better because you're a prisoner honestly.
I don't know. It's just fun. It's, like, the opposite of marrying because the gods say that's the only respectable way to kiss.
Having fun is not actually anywhere near a good enough reason to keep someone prisoner when you don't absolutely have to.
Kiss. You are a delight and I am so glad you mysteriously landed on me.
They have sex which is apparently problematic in mysterious alien world.
Meanwhile Peka sings to her baby and waits for whatever's next. She's kind of hungry, she doesn't know how long she was out but hasn't had breakfast.