On the morning of the 28th, the birthing area at the Black-Scaled Horse breeding farm in the western part of Night-Kirin City had been relatively quiet. Now it was in an uproar.
"Make way, make way!" A tall centaur girl with gray-white hair pushed a handcart between the stables. A Black-Scaled Horse lay on the cart.
"Whinny~" The Black-Scaled Horse, about to give birth, let out a pained whimper. The centaur girl pushing the cart looked frantic.
The centaur girl's flatbed cart had four wheels, and the handles were fitted with a steering bar. The cart bed was wide and low, a simplified version of the freight carts used in the factory.
The centaur girl was headed for the birthing room at the end of the stables. It was large enough to accommodate at least twenty pregnant mares giving birth at once, a facility the territory had built based on its experience from the previous year.
The cart crashed through the birthing room's doors. The first thing the girl saw was a dozen or so mares preparing to give birth inside the spacious room. Around them, the half-orc Life Priests, a Life Mage named Firefly, and the centaur girl named Kaiyi were hard at work.
"Priest Kaiyi! Priest Kaiyi! Four-Leaf is going into labor!"
"Little Boat?" Kaiyi recognized the centaur girl Landen had "christened" Gold Ship. "Wasn't Four-Leaf due at the end of the month? Why is she giving birth now?"
"I... I-I... I don't know!" Gold Ship gestured wildly. "She was fine when I fed her this morning..."
"Forget all that. Hurry and bring her over!" Firefly called. She examined the mare, then sighed with relief. "It shouldn't be serious. She just needs some Magic Potion."
"Right, Four-Leaf is an experienced mother by now," Kaiyi said as she hurried