It's a relief when Sonia finally starts to move. Being anywhere in the Deep Roads is never safe, but staying in one place is even less safe.

...She'll wait til Sonia's on the other side before she tells her that though. Sawbones really doesn't want her losing her nerve halfway across the bridge. "Take it easy, make sure your footing is solid," she says instead, in the same calm and steady voice she usually reserves for people in labor.