”See, bathtime isn’t as bad as you think it will be… its only ever the thought of getting into the bath that is bad.” Or, you know a shower… but generally once you got into it, everything was fine. You enjoyed the feeling of being clean and the time to not worry about anything else. Seeeeee. She watched as the Griffin moved around in the bath, but wasn’t trying to get out anymore.

After about five minutes, she took him out of the water and wrapped him up in the big blanket that she had taken with her. She pulled the bottom corner up, then folded the two side corners in to the middle. The top curved over Cadfael’s wet head, and she gently massaged the blanket over different sections of the baby to dry him gently.

Without realising it, her arms were once again swinging from side to side as she took to singing the gentle, soft Welsh lullaby that they sung to Alis when she wouldn’t sleep in the middle of the night. ”Mil Harddach wyt na'r rhosyn gwyn, Na'r rhosyn coch ar ael y bryn, Na'r alarch balch yn nofio'r llyn, Fy maban bach.”

OOC: The Welsh lullaby is called Mil Harddach. This is the link to a version of it, with both Welsh and English lyrics. <3