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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4419108" data-attributes="member: 41584">Maybe with a happy ending?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> And then Mammy gets the greatest gift from Lamashtu, a child which even *she* regards as monstrous.  After a surprisingly difficult labor, she squeezes out an absolutely gorgeous human child, apparently four years of age! [sometime later]Oh, she's so precious.  It's hard to believe that she was rescued from those beastly Ogres!  So strange, 'though, it was dark and there was fire and steel, but it seemed to me that she wasn't really being held prisoner, did you notice?  Those brutes seemed almost, oh, it sounds silly, I know, but they seemed afraid of her... [later]Some wild animal must have gotten to him.  Poor thing.  He was such a good watchdog, I can't believe something got into the house like that. [later still]I'm so sorry to hear about your son, taken in the night like that.  Such a tragedy to lose a child... [yet later]Well it *must* be wild dogs that done for those poor creatures.  Goblins may be horrible, but they don't butcher cats. [finally]Why are you up so late, sweetie?  Did you have a nightmare?  Here now, what's that in your hand...</blockquote>