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And lastly of course, your two dark elves. Shuredi and Xedeg, who you've managed to keep close contact with thanks to their stealth and infiltration skills, such that they usually can move around the castle unnoticed. Coming and going as you need them, best not to let them stray too far from your domain, but they can do their part as well and keep tabs on Leon's fate and update you on what the elves are up to at the border of your realm and theirs.
Indeed, much appreciated help by your mortals to take some of the increasing weight off your shoulders. Over the last few weeks remaining, until...
<span class="mu-r">"-ooph... there we go, is it time my little one? Don't be too hard on your mother now..."</span>
The sudden onset of labor symptoms late one night, as you feel the time has finally come. Of course, and thankfully, this is not your first time bringing a child into the world. And this is partly a mortal child at that! So personally, mentally and physically, you couldn't be more prepared. And besides yourself, in advance was brought to your room all the means you might need for this endeavor. Naturally there is a strong will among your people, nobles particularly, for you to have help through this process. Physicians, alchemists, priests even, in their worry for not understanding what a godly birth may entail or require. Though you do allow for a midwife and some servants to be present, you intentionally specify them to not get physically involved; you don't actually need help to pass a child, and through the labor there's a risk of harming or killing mortals if you happen to lose control at times.
The exception would have been to have Leon by your side, as much as you'd have wanted it, but being a mortal you may have been a danger to him all the same.
So then, everything prepared, yourself included... all there is now is to make it through this. For the remainder of the night your body strains through the process of delivery, and goddess or not, all you can do as a woman is endure it. Again, this is fortunately not your first time, not to mention that as a demigod child the relative difficulty is perhaps half as much compared to birthing a fully divine being. It's still no easy task though, but you are perhaps the best in the world now equipped to deal with it, for all your relevant and appropriate divine aspects. You pant, you push, you clench and groan and even scream a little, but it's all for the ultimate cause and in the grand scheme of things, not remotely enough of a pain or inconvenience to deter you from this highest purpose.
So then finally... seemingly in unison with the rising sun, exhausted and drenched in sweat, with a final few pants and pushes... there's now another life in the room. With strength remaining you act to pull your child screaming into the world, brought to nestle in your arms to your bosom, that you can finally lay back in bed in relief.
