The healer nodded at Zacharias' comment. "No worry, no worry. I understand completely. These matters must be handled swiftly if certain decisions are to be made." He did not mention what decisions, but it was rather obvious what he was referring to.
Marietta leaned back on the exam table and the healer began waving his wand over her body, casting spells and murmuring to himself as he went. He wrote a few things down on a chart and then continued his wand waving. Marietta stared up at the ceiling, twirling her bracelets in her fingers a bit out of boredom. When the healer finally spoke she was startled by his voice as she hadn't noticed that she had drifted into her own little world for a time. "You look to be in good health overall, though you seem to have lost a bit of weight recently. Your esophagus shows some mild damage from repetitive vomiting. Your stomach seems to be irritated, cause of the vomiting as well as the weight loss which I am assuming you have had trouble eating?"
Marietta just nodded against the table in reply.
"These are normal signs of pregnancy, Ms. Edgecombe, no need to be alarmed by it. Many young women experience weight loss at the beginning of a pregnancy rather than weight gain. Now if you could hold as still as possible, I will perform the detection spell for a fetus."
He moved down toward her stomach and began waving his wand elaborately over it as well as his free hand, murmuring the incantation she didn't rightly know. Strange colours and symbols popped up in front of him and he eyed them thoughtfully, nodding before he looked at Marietta and Zacharias and then Marietta again. "Well you are indeed pregnant, Ms. Edgecombe, and I will have you take the potion to see just how far along when we conduct the paternity test, if you would like. You may sit up now."