Responses

The reasons witches takes orphans as their apprentice is so that when it comes to the final test, drinking the first witch blood, if they were to die there would be no family members to cry or suffer because of their death. You may be right and I might also be mistaken. I'll have to reread and pay close attention this time
We get a proposal at the end of volume 4
Well know the answer in volume 5
We might get a child in volume 6 or 7 if there's that many volumes