Quigo's smile disappears as he rushes in front of the crying mermaid.  "It's alright, it's alright!" he told her.  "You're going to be fine.  The only time conception took less than a week,<span style="font-style: italic">she</span>," he pointed to Lang, "was directly involved.  Also, our cooked food doesn't have any fertility magic in it.  I didn't want to say anything because I had Lang going for a while, but you'd have to eat pure ingredients to actually have anything.  A ship from the next island will be here tomorrow.  You can be off this island long before you have a chance to spontaneously get pregnant."<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Mother Dalyn listens to the applicants, nodding to show that she's listening to all of them.  "Well, I admire your interest," she said, "and I would love to have you work on our current problem."  Her frown remained in place, though.  "Unfortunately, I cannot grant you access at this time.  There are a great many sensitive processes in progress, and any accident could result in injury to our current researchers.  Soon, though."<br/><br/>Then she turns to Celara.  "Celara, if you could help me."  She turned to a pile of robes next to her desk.  "Those need to be washed, and I'm obviously less than capable at the moment.  If you wouldn't mind taking those to Brother Cadrick to have them washed, that would be wonderful.  Also, I'm fairly sure I left something in there, but my leg will protest if I try to check.  If you find it, would you mind giving it back to me by the end of the day?  I doubt I'll miss it horribly until then."<br/><br/>Celara<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">You'll notice, as she scratches her shoulder that her neck is now bare.</div></div></div>