The pregnant woman giving birth in a maze of twisting passages is. Why. Why would you do that. Is she alone there, is it just her??? By herself??? In the middle of a maze in the mountains?????

The caravan successfully reaches the oasis! Any further consequences of her actions will go undetected by Iovetra, occurring as they are ten miles away from her in full sunlight.

The mother definitely seems to be alone. As for why she is doing this, well, perhaps Iovetra could ask if she knew the local language. And where said expectant mother is. Unfortunately, she currently knows neither.

mrhmrhmrhhhhhhhh Iovetra does not like this, it is bad and dangerous, fuck it, if she burns in the sunlight trying to find this woman, she burns in the sunlight, where is the mother exactly, and is she okay.

Is Iovetra:

- A mother?

- Soon to be a mother?

- A dragon, or otherwise capable of sensing and manipulating arbitrary active spells?

In order:

- No.

- Definitely not.

- Not really, not of this type. Vampires specialize in life (and death) based magic, not arbitrary wards over a location. She can tell the direction of the life she's looking for, and can - sort of reach towards her, almost get close to her, in her brief period of being immaterial when she teleports - but then it's not close enough, and the minute she has a physical form again, she's snapped back. Even if she tries very hard (and she does), she does not manage to make it closer.

This finally proven to her, she hisses in frustration, stomps her foot, and declares angrily to the world, "I would just like to help her give birth safely."

This is not likely to get her past the magic barrier that is clearly up, but. Well. Neither did just trying to go there.

This place has not shifted in a thousand years, and will not for a thousand more. In all that time its caster has not woken. It cannot hear her pleas, nor would it listen if it could. These caves, it said silently, are sanctuary for those who wish to rest undisturbed. You, you who come seeking a mother who wishes to stay secret, you are not welcome here. You will find no passage. 

Being immaterial does surprise it, but all that surprise leads to is Iovetra finding more rock behind the rock which blocked the latest path she thought had a chance. However hard she searches, she cannot find a way through.

This is maddening, women die if they go through this alone. They sometimes die even with all of the help possible!!! It is one of the most dangerous things any human can do in their entire lives!!! Doing it without any kind of help is ludicrously risky and likely to result in tragedy!!!

She hisses again, mostly out of petulance, then - sees a way she might be able to help even without being able to enter. She's started carrying various alchemical concoctions, on her trips to visit the village - fertilizer, nutritional supplements, some easy cures for simple ills, and, importantly here: painkillers. There are some concerns about dosing, so she will be very careful with how much she tries to send through, but. She can stuff a capsule of one into an empty vial and roll it in the direction of where she knows that woman is. Maybe, just maybe, she can help reduce that woman's pain as she gives birth by herself in a magic cave.

And then she can mutter expletives and leave, grouchily. Terrible. No respect for medical professionals.

The vial will vanish seamlessly into the wall.

And eventually, if she listens, she does hear the wail of a newborn, and she smells the scent of blood and fire and then no more blood, and she hears the wails cease as if something was put in the baby's mouth.

She is not listening, thank you, she is stalking off into the night, and, and, what's a useful thing she can do with this energy, are there obvious menial tasks that need doing around in the village? Preferably something that she can use her vampiric strength on.

There are always irrigation ditches which need reinforcement and rebuilding. Farming land this fertile may be rewarding but it still isn't easy.

She is so happy to dig and reinforce some ditches. Or, well, she's actually incredibly irritated, but being able to dig and reinforce ditches about it helps a lot, so she's going to be doing it so efficiently and effectively. Angry vampires are so great at menial labor, or at least this one is.

Ugh. She'll stop before she's caught by someone or the sun comes up, but. Ugh.

... She'll stick around nearby to make sure the woman makes it safely out of the insanely risky magic cave that she gave birth in by herself like some kind of crazy person. Is she okay?

She doesn't leave the cave that night! 

...thinking back, Iovetra may remember signs consistent with someone living in that cave? For some reason? Nothing clear, but she has sensed a person over that way late at night sometimes. That wasn't particularly interesting back when she thought that place was a wall, but, well.

Well then she hopes it was a well maintained and hygienic cave!!!! That someone is living in!!!! And then someone giving birth in!!!!! For some reason!!!!!!!!! Hope there was a skilled midwife of some kind so that all went smoothly and with minimal risk.

She's. She's just going to go home now. She makes a little cache for the stuff she brought over, then after it's reasonably well hidden: back to her coffin she goes. Hissing angrily to herself about risk factors.

She'll need to pet some hyenas over this tomorrow night, for sure. So upsetting.

Fortunately for her, the hyenas are consistent and unrelenting in their love of pets and scritches and treats.

If she keeps looking, Iovetra may notice a young woman sneaking through the village some nights, stealing from the garbage pile and vanishing back towards the caves.

It's so nice having some animals that don't hate her existence in the slightest.

Now that she's watching for her - yes! Yes, she does notice this!!! What the fuck are you doing, sneaking around at night, don't you know it's dark and dangerous and contains at least one powerful and magical immortal??? What if there were a second!

Is this young woman perhaps recently pregnant. Has she been living in a cave by herself and stealing food to survive? Is that what is happening here. Tell her that this is not what is happening here.

Nothing Iovetra observes will show that this isn't true!

Why are you making these choices, ma'am, the local vampire is very concerned for your welfare!!!

Fine. Fine. She will accept the available evidence if she must, however much she dislikes it. This woman is living in a cave, with her newborn child, which she also gave birth to, in that cave, and is stealing food to survive. Instead of getting literally any help from anyone else. Clearly there is some kind of inter-human drama going on here that led to these circumstances. She does not understand, and probably wouldn't even if she spoke the local language.

But no, seriously, stealing food from the garbage is - is - it's not going to stand, okay? Iovetra will not let that shit stand. She is a predator herself, and a damn good one at that. If she has to dig up half a dozen rodents, drain them dry of blood, and leave them neatly as close inside the cave as she can get in order to make sure this woman who, she must again stress, just gave birth eats, then she will. She absolutely will. And then she will fret about nutritional balance and see about foraging up other things that are edible, and probably something suitable for firekeeping, and while she'd prefer not to steal, this set of hens really gives off an absurd number of eggs that the local owners keep needing to get rid of, so the cave lady can have some of those, too. Are you happy, cave lady. Are you alive and flourishing. Because you'd better be.

The day after the first time she tries providing decent-quality food to the presumed new mother and associated infant, she will smell traces of vomit mixed in with the bouquet of scents she has learned to identify with the mother.

.... that's concerning, and she's concerned. The most reassuring thing it could be is that the woman showed yet more instances of being a dumbass besides giving birth in a cave, and ate too much until she threw up. But it might be something else. It might be something life threatening, to the mother or to her child.

She was already kind of stalking this woman, but she can up the stalking game a bit more. Iovetra knows where she sleeps. This woman comes out at night? She can wait nearby, near but not visible to where she leaves tonight's offering of food. In perfect stillness and silence. For literal hours.

No, she doesn't have a problem, this cave lady has a problem, and Iovetra will figure out what it is, and then solve it, damn it.

A wave of pale blue fire outlined in green passes over the food. Was any magical effect applied to this? Is it poisoned?

There is no ongoing magical effect on the food, and it is not poisoned. The meat offering of the day (another rodent, they're really quite common if you can track them to their burrows and rip them out of the ground) was killed via a somewhat magical effect, however. The life was drained out of it, along with its blood, if that matters at all to the pale blue fire.

Iovetra watches the wave of pale blue fire with a critical eye. Okay, so, cave lady does at least have one (1) way to defend herself, probably, that's nice. Good for her. Now, will she come out to get the food, so that the friendly neighborhood vampire can figure out what is wrong with her, on both a literal 'why did she throw up' level, and on a metaphorical 'why is she hiding in a cave away from civilization, the greatest strength humans collectively have' level.

How close an eye is Iovetra keeping on the apparently nondescript stone cliff-face?

She is not, she is looking at the place she put the food. Very patiently. Come out, little cave lady, it's time for your health checkup...

In that case, the cliff-face has no objections to this course of events.