"We are," she chuckled softly. "But Power moves in the Old Blood and it can adjust a body. If we leave beside another race long enough, a few decades, then children are possible. Rare children, perhaps three or four in a lifetime of many, many years, but so it was when the Dalesmen came, and the Sulcar, and many others. Many of the Old Blood are stronger even, being flesh shapers in the older tales, but you do not see them in the tamer lands these days."

Ah, wait, "those days. They are not my days any longer. Ah, pardon the statement I did not mean to mislead. I cannot create creatures, I assure you, I am a healer only."