As soon as he realized Ashlynn had seen them, Ollie began to trot down the hill, wincing slightly as he strained the barely healed wound in his side but pushing thoughts about it to the side in his haste to reach Ashlynn's side.
"I have good news," Ollie said once he'd reached her. "Owain took one of the villagers in Old Nan's village as a prisoner. Her name is Noomi, and she gave birth to a son in the dungeons beneath the villa."
"He took a pregnant woman? What did he want to do, raise her child as a pet?" Ashlynn said hotly, glancing briefly at the woman in Ipiktok's arms and realizing that she was cradling a small blanket-wrapped figure in her arms. "But her son survived, even though he was born in the dungeons? That's incredible…"
