Jon's p.o.v

Meditative, my mind is lost in the ocean. "Daddy!" my eight year old daughter calls out to me.

"What is the matter, child?" I address her. "Mommy has fainted. The village physican is trying

To figure out what went wrong" Dove informs me. Hand in hand, she escorts me to our house

where the doctor and my family are tending to Ygritte. "Ygritte is pregnant" the doctor announces

to us. Dove and my family are over the moon about the new baby. They expect the new baby to be

a boy. I am stuck at a crossroads. I fear I might lose Ygritte like before. Visions of my unborn

son, Alaric relieves me. Thankfully, Ygritte's second pregnancy does last for nine months.

Alaric's birth marked a new chapter in our lives.