"Let the dwarven workers at least go home first. Can you stand another hour, or should we head over now?"<br/><br/>He frowned at the tiniest of twitches, almost opened his mouth, and then decided that ignorance was bliss. He turned to head to the door, and suddenly froze, blurting it out before he could stop himself as he felt like someone had hit him in the back of the head with a board. He knew his face must be a combination of horror and shocked denial.  And he still blurted it out without bothering to think of how it would cause Aurelia to react. "Oh gods. She was in heat?"