and then something changed , and raddias discomfort at the confinement of the pouch and her terror of touching gallans naked body were replaced by a feeling of safety and bliss unlike anything she had ever experienced ; because the pouch was in fact the belly of a woman , ( though not navvas ; raddia couldnt say how she knew this , but she did ) who spoke to them soothingly , her voice a real , audible voice resonating in their every bone , the beating of her heart filling theirs with warm blood .