Boy or Girl

*Isla*

“Everything looks wonderful,” Mystica says as she finishes examining me. “The baby is a bit small for when we think the child was conceived, but other than that, the heartbeat is strong, everything is proportionate, the rest of the organs are developing on track as well, and movement is right on track. I think we shall have a healthy child in a few months, despite my apprehension earlier. Congratulations to the pair of you!” She stands at the foot of the examination table with her hands clasped together and a big grin on her face.

“Thank you,” I tell her. “Do you have any indication yet of the sex of the baby?”

Mystica looks from me to the king, and Maddox nods. He wants to know, too.

“Well, I do,” she says. “Let me show you on the machine. I think that will be better.”

She’s already done an ultrasound to measure everything, but while she was doing all of that, she looked like she was concentrating so hard, I didn’t even want to interrupt her to ask this question. Also, she is