"Oh, my god!" The drow said when he finally, after two hours of crazy life, was lying into bed. Catti-brie was near him in the very same pose.
"Are all children like this, or just the elves!" After, it seemed eternal, shouting, yelling, crying her whisper stroke her as much louder than it really was. Drizzt felt the same way- his head with a terrible ache, he was hearing a constant knocking. The drow was about to answer to his wife, when the door of the chamber got open. And only when Stumped and Bruenor entered, the exhausted elf realized that the knocking was true.
"What's wrong with ya? We've been knocking for like five minutes, ye know!" No, the pair definitely wasn't in the mood of thinking any smart answer to the dwarf.
"I thought that that was just in my head…" Catti started to tell the true…
"What's wrong with ya!" the dwarf demanded again "Are ye comin' crazy with the entire baby thing?" It was supposed to be a sarcastic question… The dwarf's mouth almost hit the floor when from the bed came the unexpected answer from both, Drizzt and Catti-brie.
"YES!"
"What?" Bruenor was lost. But is seemed that the cleric near him was having the greatest time…
"What is so funny?" Drizzt asked with no emotion in his voice, he was too tired even for that.
"Welcome, to the parents world!" The cleric answered with a smile. "And it's not as easy as ye thought before"
"We've noticed it" Cat put in.
"How, the Hell, we're supposed to know if the baby is hungry, or needs to be changed, or… or…or any other darned thing she needs!" Drizzt asked to the cleric rising to his elbows.
"Ye'll know, believe me, ye just need time" Stumped tried to calm him.
"I'll die before" The drow mumbled, falling again to his back.
"Anyways, I've got news for ye two!" The female dwarf sharply changed the subject.
The couple raised their gazes up to her.
"Our hopes were true. Aye, Catti-brie you are a quarter elf." Both froze. Drizzt was the first to ask:
"What would it mean…?"
"And, aye, Drizzt she'll live much more than she expected" It was obvious that the elf wanted to ask this very question. Another moment of silence…
"Are ye sure?"
"Yes, the there can't be any mistake. The spell is rather simple. I just made to beings of her blood and Wulfgar's and cast the "life time" spell on them…"
"Wait, wait! What did you make, and what spell did you cast?" The question was rolling in everybody's heads but Catti-brie was the one to ask. Stumped made a sigh- for the last two days she has been like an encyclopedia, and she started to get tired of this… The cleric wanted to say them that that was not the point, that she didn't wanted to retell them all the process, but instead she counted to ten and slowly (to control herself better) asked:
"You want to know all the detail?"
"Yes, please" The woman loved to tease people, and if those were dwarfs…even better!
"Ok," The cleric answered with a tense smile "I made two small magic balls; the energy inside them was glowing with red light, because of the blood used for the spell" The cleric was giving as much 'detail' as she could. "In the first ball I used your blood and in the second I used Wulfgar's as he is a human, no doubts in that, I hope. And as a human he lives less then one with elven heritage. Then I waited a bit for the spell to settle. After that I cast another one. The last made the life inside the 'beings' flow faster, this way, my friends, the energy supply in the balls was descending with every passing moment and not year. As the result the barbarian's ball 'died' much faster than yours. Was that enough detail for ye?" Stumped sarcastically finished, very proud of herself.
"Well, I think you could do it better…But I'll live" The woman answered with an innocent smile.
"Elves…Well, I was about to give ye two some advises 'bout the babies, but I'm afraid that I can't give you as much 'detail' as you need!" Stumped paid off, turned around and started to walk out the room but a desperate "NO!" stopped her and she looked at the drow who was already on his feet and running towards her . It seemed that the thought of another 'calming' hour made him forget all the tiredness.
"Yes?" The cleric's voice proud and cold.
"Well, I come to be much older that my dear wife and maybe that makes me a bit smarter than her. I'm sure I can understand what ye mean without all the nicety thing" Drizzt voice on the contrary was almost beseeching.
From the bed Catti was sending her husband evil looks, if the gaze could shoot lightenings, there would be just a black spot instead of Drizzt near the cleric. But the woman didn't say anything; after all the drow was right-another baby round would be the last thing they'll do in this life. The idea wasn't calming, and now- when she has gotten such good news- even less.
After a long look upon the drow the female dwarf finally had mercy on him, and agreed on helping them with the babies. Just in time, cause from the next room came a loud cry. A shudder crossed the couple's spine, but Stumped just smirked and walked out of the room in the direction of the babies' room.
"Watch, and learn!" She merely said.