I’m assuming you only like girls.” “I—I’m pretty sure.” “Then it makes all the sense in the world why you would hide it. It narrows down your prospects.” She nods, face tight. “There are … options. I’ve heard of warlocks who could help me have a child. And a few noble families have daughters they thought were boys at birth, so they might … But I’ve never met them, and Mama never would have paid for me to travel across the empire just for that.”
