"Yes, my mama is the best one. She escaped us from the place that is bunnies now."

Bunnies now?

"I'm going to be a mama too, soon," she says, gesturing at her overlarge stomach. 

"Serik turned the place I grew up into a meadow full of bunnies," Beka explains.

Kat pulls up Lyrendi's shirt to see if she has a baby under it.

Lyrendi giggles. "The baby is still inside me. You were inside your mama too, once." At least Lyrendi assumes so.

"Yup. Then you got taken away and I had to steal you back! But now we're okay."

Kat puts Lyrendi's shirt back and nods.

Lyrendi wonders if Serik could turn her stomach transparent so Kat could see the unborn baby, then decides that this would be a weird thing to ask and she probably shouldn't. 

I dunno if his magic could do that, but it probably could! You sure you don't wanna ask?

"I have a little boat," says Kat, displaying her little boat.

"Oh, that's a neat boat!"

...So you are actually reading my mind, not just getting what I send you.

Yeah, you have to learn to keep thoughts private if you wanna do the other thing. I can not listen to you but then it'd be really hard to translate.

It's fine, I just wasn't sure. You don't think Serik would think it was weird if I asked him to make my womb see-through?

Nah. Well, I mean, weird but not bad?

Alright then.

Beka passes on the inquiry.

...Serik laughs. "Sure, why not," he says, and he pulls a little power from the mountain and fiddles with it. Transparency spreads through Lyrendi's flesh like ink through water, pouring into her midsection until the only things still visible there are the child and her bones; and, above and below the transparent part, an unsettlingly ragged cross-section of the neighbouring bits.

Lyrendi grins in delight at the baby. "See, Kat?"

"Wowwwww. It's got a thing on its tummy."

"That's the umbilical cord. It connects the baby to me so I can feed it in the womb."

"It eats through its tummy??"

"Babies do that until they're born!"

"Whaaaaaat. And it's soooooo smallllllll -" She reaches out but transparent doesn't mean insubstantial. Pat pat.

"It is very small!" She looks a little closer. "He's very small. But he's just about big enough to be born."

"He's a he?"

"Yeah. See?" she asks, pointing. 

Kat looks at her mama. Presumably her mama explains, because Kat nods and resumes peering at the small baby who she cannot pat no matter how many times she tries.

Her trying is adorable. 

"He'll be born soon enough. You can pat him for real then."