I am no doubt more eloquent in prose than I will ever be aloud, though I can't boast my brother's charm in either.

As to my work: in consequence of it I'm something of an accomplished midwife. I specialize in challenging births and surgical solutions to related complaints—little of the practise is magical in nature, though without it as an instrument I'd not have been anything like as successful. My interest in species interbreeding led me to reproductive health, and it has proved the more practical study.

But the same magic that has been of use to mothers will serve soldiers with torn flesh.

GERVAIS V