"Fortunately I am not mid-sneak."

"And I won't do - things that in a just society I wouldn't have the option to do - if you're sneaking, just, like, have you write my secret letters less."

Nod.

"I'm glad I found you."

"Me too."

She throws herself cheerfully back into politicking.

And Aya follows her around with her nice pens constantly scratching.

Aya is such a good secretary. Maybe she will want to stay even when Amait does not literally own her. 

If she doesn't ask she will never know!

It's kind of an awkward question! She doesn't ask, she just tells Aya politics things all the time.

Politics things are interesting.

Rabka, meanwhile, is super pregnant.

That is kind of the thing that follows after little-bit-pregnant. Malare thinks she looks adorable and tries not to be pushy about sex.

It limits positions but it is not nearly as much of an impediment as having a baby will be! If he is not pushy she will just have to be affectionate first.

That'll do it. "This one will not be a wereteapot! You'll get no time off!"

"Even regular babies sleep!"

"Very much?"

"Loads. Not in a row though."

"I find myself not at all tempted to sell my child off to horrible things." 

"Good." Kiss.

Kiss!!

And eventually:

"- ah-huh I recognize this feeling this is the going into labor feeling."

"Should I, uh, get you things?"

"Last time I was in a barn! There were sheep! I don't know what I was supposed to have!"

"I will ask!" 

He asks. 

It is not all that common to get your slave a midwife if there isn't another slave who does that but you can. He does that.