[As if haggling over prices at a fleamarket, Sieglinde fires off a counter offer quite quickly.]
It will take at least ten to determine if my first child has the aptitude and desire to inherit my title, and I shall need to still be able to bear a second if it should prove necessary.
[And for as cold and clinical as that might sound, having children only for the purpose of an heir... she found it quite magnanimous that she be willing to allow a child not to follow in her footsteps if it wanted by trying again with another sibling.
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[As if haggling over prices at a fleamarket, Sieglinde fires off a counter offer quite quickly.]
It will take at least ten to determine if my first child has the aptitude and desire to inherit my title, and I shall need to still be able to bear a second if it should prove necessary.
[And for as cold and clinical as that might sound, having children only for the purpose of an heir... she found it quite magnanimous that she be willing to allow a child not to follow in her footsteps if it wanted by trying again with another sibling.
After all- she hadn't been given that choice.]