"Can we do that?" he asked. He crouched and looked sweetly down at the dark-haired, sleeping child. "We've never tried to bring someone else along with a translocation spell. How do we know it can-"
Tamara sighed. "You really must study more. It can be done. There are risks, but it can be done."
William still hesitated. He gestured around at the tree. "Bodicea couldn't get inside. This whole forest... I know you can feel it. There's more magic here than you and I will muster in our entire lives. How do we know it's safe for the babies?"
She trembled, her stomach lurching. But she held those two babies against her, their skin warm upon hers, tiny hearts beating within them, and she knew they had to try.
"We don't know. But we can be certain they aren't safe here."
For a long moment he only stared at her, and then William nodded. "All right. But with what Bodicea said about spells on the tree, wards or whatever, I think we must at least be cautious. We shouldn't try to translocate from here. Let's take the babies outside, and then we'll begin."
