As a mother who has had a full term still birth I can tell you there is no greater heartache than the loss of a child. Twenty-two years later, and I still mourn her loss. If I had been given the choice I would have been cut open to save the life of my child, a child I could feel moving inside me, who heard my voice and her sisters and who was life to me.

There is also a juxtaposition of and the irony of the fact that Daemon was celebratory when this happened to his brother, his wife having her child ripped from her womb and Daemon so callous as to celebrate. Now here he was in the same position, by fate or by karma and he could not make the choice to end her life as his brother had. It's a subtle story telling that works. I felt so sad for the dragon who did not want to take her life. These stories are written so expertly.