Reflections Of An Afternoon – July 1419

The child stirred within her, small vibrations like a tiny dance, and Pearl smiled quietly, sitting in the cool of her kitchen while her lads dashed restlessly through the smial.  She wondered sadly if they would ever be safe again outside.  Her hand settled on her growing belly and her smile returned.  She had thought to wish for a girl this time, but it was a green-eyed boy, Tookish in every turn, that she hoped for now, a heart full of kindly mischief to bring the light back into her father’s worried face.  Why had her brother ever left?