I have made no noticeable progress since I started, Mest says that I have improved since yesterday but I don’t see it.

Today Tiddol asked me to examine her and see if she needed healing. Supposedly she’s been feeling off in the last couple days. It was almost immediately obvious what was going on, I had seen it a couple times before when healing members of Par’s tribe. Tiddol is pregnant.

It is too early to tell whether the child is Human or Hobgoblin, but we do know that the child will be one or the other. The chance of them becoming something completely different is almost zero, or at least that’s what Mest said.

No one was expecting it, but in hindsight, there was almost no chance it wasn’t going to happen. Tiddol went from a species with a rather low fertility rate to one with a rather high fertility rate, and Hobgoblins are rather virile. Both the goblin line of creatures and Humans are able to breed with pretty much any other species, a rarity for creatures that aren’t able to achieve immortality through brute force. Most can breed with species very close to them on their evolutionary tree, but almost none can breed with creatures of an entirely different evolutionary tree, it just so happens that both Hobgoblins and Humans are among those numbers. I know that thanks to the book written by an Origin I read a while back.

Overall i’m pretty excited. It will be the first child born here that wasn’t born in an easily educated state. It was easy to teach Willow and the Ents language, it won’t be so easy to do that with this child. On top of that Tiddol seems happy, and I’m happy for her.

I was looking back over some of my earlier entries because this new child was making me reflective. I have come a long way since I started building this grove, I have found a new family and I am able to pursue my passions with little stopping me. Oh yeah, and I guess a fluffy beast really did end up moving in with me, I just never expected her to end up as my girlfriend.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.