For a moment nobody in the room noticed her. Then Teddy's nose wrinkled, his head turning, and every single baby in the room went still.
The scent must have hit them all at once, because the room went from busy chatter and small grunts to complete silence, four little heads swivelling in their cribs, wide eyes fixing on her from across the room.
"Mummy," Teddy said it first, syllables tumbling out fast and wet. "Mum mum mum umumumum." He abandoned the blocks entirely, planting both hands on the floor and hauling himself forward, his little legs kicking uselessly behind him before he found the rhythm and started to crawl.
"Oh!" Felicity's chest cracked wide open at the sound of him, and she forgot her back, forgot the ache still living low in her spine, and lowered herself down onto her knees despite Dimitri's hand hovering uselessly behind her like he wanted to catch her and didn't quite dare.
