A History of Cartographers (4/8)
I changed the title (again), and I think I'm happy with it now. I wanted a way to indicate that it's part of the same arc as ACOC. Tonight, I bring you Walburga Black's perspective on motherhood, on the day of Regulus's birth.
Excerpt:
Walburga had done her duty, providing "an heir and a spare", as the expression went, for the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black. Her husband had kept to her bed for the agonisingly long time it had taken for her to conceive seven times, and birth two healthy male infants, though Orion Black had taken no joy in the task. Walburga hadn't minded the act of making heirs -- the husband her parents had selected for her was a handsome man who treated her gently -- but she knew Orion found little pleasure in the beds of women. Still, so long as he was discreet about his perversions, she could ignore them.
Excerpt:
Walburga had done her duty, providing "an heir and a spare", as the expression went, for the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black. Her husband had kept to her bed for the agonisingly long time it had taken for her to conceive seven times, and birth two healthy male infants, though Orion Black had taken no joy in the task. Walburga hadn't minded the act of making heirs -- the husband her parents had selected for her was a handsome man who treated her gently -- but she knew Orion found little pleasure in the beds of women. Still, so long as he was discreet about his perversions, she could ignore them.