You decide to pay a visit to the doctor.

Of course it's not for yourself, but for your pregnant slave-wives.

You consider taking Ayane as well, but since you were both pretty sure that she wasn't pregnant, you decide to hold onto the free check-up she could use for when she actually needs it.

With Ayane's merchant skills, the promotional about complementary check-ups for first time customers, and the potential of being regulars for the feathered doctor was enough to convince him to have every wife that isn't Herta go there for free.

At least, it was free when it came to first prenatal visits.

An option, through a suggestion from one of Nicodemus's nurses, was put forth; you could pay to give each of your wives a 'magical crystal necklace' for them to wear.

When hearing about 'magic healing crystals' you instinctively wanted to brush it off as a scam, but then you remembered this was a magical world and these sorts of crystals were a legitimately useful.

Apparently it would make your wives healthier and protect them, and their pregnancy, from mental corruption.

It was a little bit redundant, considering the rings you enchanted also warded off corruption and cleansed any that might stick onto your wives, but it could be nice to have anyway if for no other reason than for studying.

>You'll purchase one of them. (Costs 100g)
>No, there was no need to waste money.
>(Write-in) (Will need a roll if you try to haggle it down)

You asked why you weren't offered this when you were with Herta, and he reminded you of the "unnatural quantities of divine power flowing through that first wife of yours, hoo-hoo".

Right, that.

With that subject in the air, Nicodemus urged you to let him check Herta's condition once more. You allowed it, considering he was offering to do this for free.

It was the same as last time you were here, save for one fact; instead of one crystal ball that was used to check health and status, there were now three.

"As you might see," Said he, "I am now the owner of two more artifacts. The first you've seen before and are familiar with, and the second, though similar, is of higher quality. Meanwhile the third was personally commissioned by yours truly— a dwarfish Savant specializing in medical and anti-corruption artifacts created it, and he personally assured me that the craftsdwarfship was of the highest quality."

Just by looking at it you could see the rare materials and distinctive Savant-like touch the orb had.

Herta was instructed to touch these artifacts; first the one that was used before, then the second, then repeating that once more. And so on, sometimes at the same time as another crystal ball, sometimes in a specific order, sometimes all at once.

After some time the readings were done, and the talkative harpy owl finally stopped speaking about how his little sister got an orange peel stuck to her talon for a week without noticing it.

Nicodemus tilted his head this way and that as he looked over the papers.