"Your mother was a good person. We used to be friends, she was a smart person ahead of her peers in everything. I don't know how she gave herself away to that man." The doctor stopped grinding the herbs, and deposited the grinded material into a small box.
"I was the one who found her. Right where I found you, near the pigs in a cart all bloodied like she had returned from a battle. Her mind wasn't in the right direction, totally gone haywire. Most of the villagers didn't even recognize her because all of her lush black hair had gone white."
"When she came back… Was she…?"
"She was pregnant before she ever left that with that man, she didn't inform anyone yet. When I was taking care of her after she returned, she was still pregnant, but she didn't seem capable enough to take care of a child. Your grandfather was the only family your mother ever had, and she died after sending her off."
