Chapter 2

In the beginning Sophie tried not to get attached. They had said they would be back, after all. Whoever they were. Still, she had to care for the little thing, so she set about making it possible to do so.

She found a family with a milking goat they were willing to part with in exchange for her delivering the wife of a baby, and she brought the goat home and waited for the summons; the wife was close to her time, but it might be a couple of weeks yet. Clouts an. . .