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motionless Joanna, we might as well be reading in separate rooms for all the likelihood anything
will result. I can practically feel my seed dying the instant it enters her, screaming 'In what
barren desert have I been sown!'“
The lineage, the lineage. And Joanna must be made pregnant, whatever the cost and
whatever the method. Midwifes were consulted, and doctors, and astrologers. But it was an
alchemist who ultimately succeeded.
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