The Midwife's Wards

There was no way to make this easier to hear, or at least not one Loren could think of. Not here, not given how his last encounter with Phoebe had gone. Still, though his voice wasn’t kind, it wasn’t as cruel as when he’d been lashing out at her. Moreover, he lowered his voice so that only the healer and none of the children could hear him. ”Roana threatened to kill all the Ascended. We went to arrest her, and bring her children to you. I don’t know for certain, because I was leaving with the boys at this point, but it sounds as if she resisted arrest and tried to flee.” Hopefully the summoner didn’t have to explain what that meant to Phoebe: one way or another, the boys were not getting their mother back. There was more he needed to say, but it was best to let Phoebe process all that first. LOREN Not quite an open book