There is considerable screaming. The midwife assures him this is normal.

He is sure glad he is not a girl. 

And much unpleasantness later there is a baby! The midwife pokes her head out and says it's a girl, what would he like to name her.

He had not actually given that any thought! "Uh? Maybe you could ask her? Is she okay? Is she alive?"

"Yes, the slave is fine, she's feeding the baby now. I'll ask her what she wants to name the baby if you don't have a name in mind. I can do the piercing for the baby now too." She rummages in her bag.

" - no, you don't need to do that, I'm going to free her, she's mine."

"...I don't have to do it, since you didn't have to hire me at all, but you need to have it done within the next two days..."

"She's a baby, she's not going to run away, and I'm going to free her. She's my daughter."

"Well, I suppose if you free her in the next two days you won't be obliged to have her pierced."

"Great."

"But if you might not get around to it or change your mind -"

"I don't want my daughter to be -" treated the way I treat her mother - "I'll get around to it. Thank you for the information."

The midwife nods and gets a name for the baby from Rabka ("Janna") and goes.

He goes in to check on Rabka and the baby.

Lounging with Janna latched onto her. "Hey. Look what I got."

" - oh, she's beautiful. Are you okay? That was -"

"It was way worse the first time!"

"Yikes. Okay. I told them not to pierce her."

"'Cause you're gonna take her right down to the place and free her?"

"Yeah, of course. Lady seemed skeptical."

"People mostly don't. But you freed Cathei and she's not even yours."

"I like having you but slavery's bad, it shouldn't be a thing, it's not how a little kid should grow up."

"I love you."

Snuggle. "Janna?"

"Janna!" Yawn. "I think it's cute. You can change it if you want obviously but the midwife said you said to ask me -"