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mother’s arms.
    “I ken that it
willna be pleasant for either of ye, but could ye check where I cut her, Anna? 
She may need a few stitches,” Quinn said, the burn of embarrassment heating his
skin.
    “I’ll have a
look,” Anna responded, wincing slightly.  She couldn’t imagine what it would
feel like to be cut there.   Quinn had only done what was necessary to
get the baby out.  Anna said a quiet prayer in hopes that her own baby would be
born easily.
    “We’ll leave ye
be,” Quinn said, helping Sarah settle in the bed and slowly standing up. 
“Holler if ye need anything,” he said, eyes soft as he looked down at the
women.  Both Anna and Sarah had been so brave today.
    The door closed
softly behind the shirtless Murray brothers and Sarah was left alone now with
her baby and Anna.
    “Thank you again,”
Sarah said, smiling at Anna, who still sat next to her on the bed.
    “I’m glad that it
worked.  I heard a woman speaking of such a treatment on the Mary Catherine, the ship that we took over here.”
    Sarah loosened the
string at the neckline of her dress and exposed a breast for her baby.
    “I’ve seen other
women do this all my life, but it’s strange to be doing it myself now!” she
chuckled nervously, a pang of longing flooded over her as she thought of her
mother.  If her mother was alive, she would have helped her with this.
    “Do you want me to
go out?” Anna asked, suddenly feeling like she was intruding on Sarah’s
privacy.
    “No, stay…please stay. 
You’ve been so kind to me and in all honesty having another woman here makes me
feel better,” Sarah confessed, taking her breast in her hand and positioning it
for her baby.  The baby was frantic with hunger, nuzzling against her skin. 
“Oh!” Sarah exclaimed as the baby latched on to her breast and began to suckle
for the first time.  “That feels so strange!” she exclaimed, giggling softly.
    Anna laughed
quietly, flooded with feelings of contentment from a job well done.  Watching
Sarah with her baby made Anna long to meet her own baby.  Her hand circled
lazily over the growing bulge of her belly.
    “It’s amazing,
isn’t it?” Anna asked whimsically as she watched Sarah feed her baby.  “That we
can grow such a miracle inside of us, create a new person.”
    “Truly amazing,”
Sarah said softly, relaxing now as the baby suckled her breast.  She stroked
her fingers gently over the baby’s head and down her arm.  The baby’s fingers
latched on to Sarah’s index finger and squeezed.
    “Have you named
her yet?”  Anna asked.
    “No, not yet.  I
want to talk to Quinn about it first,” Sarah said absentmindedly as she toyed
with her baby’s tiny fingers.
    Lord have
mercy.  This is Quinn’s baby!  
     
    ..ooOoo..
     
    “Sae ye just came
across her in the forest?” Rowan asked, eyebrows arched as he interrogated his
older brother.
    “Aye.  I was out
hunting and I heard her.  Nearly shot her with an arrow!  I thought that she
was an animal,” Quinn revealed, sitting in the rocking chair next to the fire,
shoulders slumped as the exhaustion of the day’s events set in.
    “Where are her
people?” Rowan asked.
    “I doona ken.  I
asked her if I could help her get tae them and she said no.  For whatever
reason, she doesna want tae go tae them.”
    “She’s a savage?”
    “I doona ken for
sure.  She’s wearing their clothes.  She looks like them with her dark hair and
all, but then again, she speaks perfect English.”
    “Do ye think
they’ll come looking for her?” Rowan asked, alarmed as he thought of Anna and
the baby that grew in her womb.  “We canna keep her here if they will come
looking for her.”
    “I doona ken if
they’re looking for her or not.  I was too busy saving her life and delivering
her baby tae ask her,” Quinn said sarcastically, pulling the leather tie from
his shoulder length chestnut hair and rebinding the unruly masses at the base
of his neck.  “I doona