Pel shakes her head, turning her eyes back to the road. "I like driving. It helps me think. Anyway, I'd get bored, since I can't read while the cart's moving or I'll get ill."

Most mothers, she has heard, get past the morning sickness after the first few months. She is not most mothers.

She gives him a sidelong glance before looking back to the road. "Do dwarves in your world have their own nations?"