At first there was nothing terribly out of the ordinary going on at the Rememdium. Summer had come and with that also arrived the many births of Myrken babies that had been conceived during those long cold winter nights. It was hardly out of the ordinary that to see a pregnany woman or two entering or exiting the rooms of the Rememdium. What was unusual was how quickly the normal statistics had drastically changed. Within weeks there were suddenly dozens of young women who were filling the rooms at the Rememdium, some accompanied by pacing fathers or even husbands who waited in the lobby only to hear the confirmation that indeed the young lady was pregnant.
There were a few other factors that were strange in the scenario as well, the first of which being the age and names of the young ladies. Most of the women had barely reached adulthood, some who had yet to marry and others who had only recently been married, and all with variations of similar names. There were Josies, Josephines, Josette's, Jo's and Josanna's, amongst others.
The second strange fact came from the men that waited on the women. Fathers that were furious at their daughters and their lost innocence, husbands who claimed that there was no possibly way that the child could be their own. In fact the shouting matches had reached the point that at one point the Doctor's assistant had even gone and encouraged all the men to wait outside of the Rememdium so that their shouting would stop upsetting the women inside. It was a tense situation altogether, and while so women claimed their husbands to be the fathers, and others protested immaculate conception, a few had spoken quietly to the doctor or his assistant, whispering quiet descriptions of what sounded to be the same man, a handsome young man with a mop of curly blond hair and brilliant blue eyes, and skin that seemed to glow when they touched it.
It had been a tense week, and even as the day time patients had left the ears of the Rememdium staff were still ringing with the sounds of the men shouting down the hall, a woman sobbing in a patient room, or the mooney eyed description a blond haired glowing lover.