She does, yes. Since she doesn't, actually, sleep.

Off she goes, popping home for some supplies before she heads off. (She's got some serious catching up to do when it comes to her mission of keeping a single cave mother fed...)

This night's food delivery is a little later than normal.

"Hi, sorry I'm late, I have food and I learned the language so we can talk now!" Iovetra calls, in the direction of the wall that is not a wall, before politely looking away from it.

Afra walks out. 

"...hello? What are you?"

"Hello!" Food. "I am a vampire from another dimension. I have foreign magic and a magic castle."

"And why do you help us? I know no foreigners to plead for me."

Iovetra's answer is a slightly bewildered: "... Because you just had a child and were eating garbage?? I was and am able to help and see no reason not to???"

She still looks confused, but... she's not planning to argue here? "Well, you're kindhearted. And my experience of the world is not so wide, I have known only the mountain towns and villages. ...you will not harm Uday?"

"Absolutely not, is he doing okay?? I'm a - weird foreign healer thing, and I brought my pack of supplies." Actually retrieved from where she'd dropped it earlier, when she'd come to her castle's call. "It's fine if you don't want to trust me with him, just - I really do want you both to be okay. I tried to break in to your magic cave while you were giving birth, I was very concerned for your safety."

Smile. "But she kept you out like she kept the villagers out. She is a good maze." Afra pats the wall. "Was the potion yours? I did not know if it was safe, but my magic said it would help. Thank you."

"I really feel like she should have a 'mothers and midwives' policy," grumbles Iovetra, because this is in fact a sore point for her. "Yes, it's mine - you're welcome. Sorry the dosing was a bit, uh, weak for childbirth, I wanted to provide pain relief but if I can't see you and tell what your body size and health profile is then it was better to err on the side of caution."

"If you had come in I would have burned you! It is better this way. Tonight I need to go down to the spring to wash my clothing. If you will not hurt Uday and you want to talk to me, you can come with."

Back into the wall! She emerges with a small and very sleepy child. He looks like he was only just woken up by being scooped and carried.

"See, but you might've died alone giving birth in a cave!!! And then where would you be!!! Giving birth is one of the most painful and dangerous things a human can ever do, and it pains every fiber of my soul that you had no one there to help! ... Anyway, yes, I can also help you wash things while I bemoan your situation. What in the world led to this, are the villagers likely to hurt you or your child?"

"Yes. I have whored and stolen in the village. They caught me at thieving and threw me out. I was warned of the maze, but I saw the cave instead and hid. And I managed to have Uday there, so I do not complain. Come. The spring is this way."

The path she takes twists out of view and makes a wide curve around the stone protecting the cave. At the end is a small bay, with a spring bubbling up through the ground to make a pond. Plants grow nearby, sprouting from the ground and from cracks in the three rocky walls.

"And stealing and whoring is worth being left out to die in the mountains???" says a very obviously offended vampire. Who is in fact going to assist with the laundry, yes.

As long as someone is holding Uday! She doesn't have a cradle or a crib for him, and she didn't bring bedding out this far.

"The village cannot have a thief! They cannot feed a hand who does not help. Some of them pitied me and gave me work, but they cast me out when they saw that. It was better than they could have done. Some of the boys wanted to kill me! Their parents decided to just kick me out, they said they wouldn't even warn off any caravans that came through. I would have joined another if I could find one to take me and Uday, but none have stopped here with the bandits nearby."

Iovetra is fine with the division of labor being 'vampire does laundry while the mother holds her child,' yes.

"They threw you out for. Doing their work better than them??? That's insane. Do they just not like your magic for - some reason???"

"No, no! They cast me out when they saw the thieving.  I could not find enough work to feed me and Uday, even when he was growing. My magic was a surprise and I was not trained with it. If I could heal or find disease, they would be happy, but all I know how to do is burn. My other tricks do not always work — it only needs a little bit of fire in the wrong place to be a problem."

"Oh. They were kinder than they could have, by not... immediately killing you. Right, okay." Laundry scrub. "Okay, well, I am happy to help you get back in the village's good graces with magical bribery. From me, I mean, I have some pretty great bribery available. There's also a - I guess it's not a caravan exactly, but the Emperor is on a tour of the area and I'm pretty sure his retinue is coming through here. I can also just literally pick you and Uday up and bring you places, though I can't promise it'd be comfortable."

"The Emperor? I heard stores, but— I'm sure he wouldn't be interested in me." Iovetra can tell she is suddenly worried about something.

"Well, he is very interested in me and my castle, we spent most of the day talking about my magic plants, so. Bet I can bribe him, too. Really, just let me know how you want to aim my absurd magic bribes to improve you and your sons' living situation." Scrub scrub, goes the laundry.

"Only if you can bribe an imperial pardon for an escaped slave and thief," she mutters bitterly. Uday will be so well cuddled.

"Pretty sure I can, actually! My castle can make black opals, which as I learned after making like ten, is a big deal!"

She blinks and frowns. "It is?"

"It is! They are little - repositories to hold Gift magic? There was a very powerful mage there who made me a necklace with black opals to avoid me burning to death in the sunlight."

"Burning to death in the sunlight? Oh no. ...I would like a very powerful mage to teach me. No one back home knew how to teach a girl with two-colored magic."

Iovetra might remember that Numair's magic was black and white.

"His was two-colored. I think. Unless black and white are the same color, being monochromatic? I don't have a very good idea of how the magic here works yet, we were focused on leveraging mine for the good of human flourishing."