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Helena Wells-Quinzel is H.G. Wells (indelibleink) wrote in makebelievelog,

Hearing that Padmé would die after giving birth in her own world saddened Helena. She herself had come close to such a fate with her own child birth, and she knew mortality in child birth had been a leading cause of death for women in her day. Reaching out, Helena set her hand on Padmé's arm in a display of empathy. "Fear not, I will not dwell upon such unsavory details when there is no need." There was a difference between denial and wanting to simply focus on the more positive aspects. And with pregnancy, there were plenty of positives. "From what Anakin has told me of you, I believe you will make an excellent mother. It is not always an easy transition and it does take time to settle into it. But give yourself time and trust your instincts." Helena smiled warmly. "I was only 17 when I had my daughter, so I was somewhat still a child myself yet I adjusted well." Though that also partially had been due to the fact Helena had a strong bond to Christina even before the girl had been born.

"Women were oppressed, to put it lightly. A woman was not to have any fanciful ideas or knowledge of things such as science. A woman's place was in the home raising children and no where else. When she married, she was little more than property to her husband. There were female authors both in my time and before, but I wrote a type of fiction that women weren't supposed to have ideas about. My brother, Charles, took all the credit much to my abject ire. I did, yes. There were four of us altogether, I had two brothers and a sister. I was very much my father's daughter, much to my mother's abject horror." Helena wasn't certain what all Anakin had told Padmé about her, but she did wonder if the fact she used past tense about her family would be caught by the other woman. "Archery? That is certainly a good hobby to take up. How are you doing with it?" Archery was not something Helena had ever learned, but she knew it was a skill that took a lot of effort to learn.