Prince Vzeus had an elegant bearing thus when he invited the Saintess and her mysterious husband inside his humble abode along with their son, no questions were asked nor assumptions were made.

The pathway with chrysanthemum trails covered with a shade of ruby red roses, alongside the wooden fence that was entwined by blue grapes hanging onto vines hid the cracks in the walls.

Who would say that it was a residence belonging to that of a Prince? Neither it had luxury nor a single steward to take care of it.

Maybe there were many that considered Prince Vzeus pitiful yet Emperor Heun who followed Helixis felt unfathomable before shaking his head. The roses and varied chrysanthemum flowers had an intoxicating smell yet very few people were aware that cerulean blue grapes, when planted over yellow chrysanthemum, would attract viper snakes, when planed next to roses it may make the kingcobra insane with bloodlust.

What if the current empress of Gaerin-Daphne wanted to crush Prince Vzeus and not provide any protection? This man had trained wild beasts for protecting his residence no less. Four gardens conjoined and spiraled inwards to lead to a beautiful wooden mansion constructed in the middle. No servants and maids were seen in the vicinity thus the walk became more relaxed.

"This Princess greets her highness Saintess." Prince Vzeus smiled and whispered into Lyra's ear making her irises glimmer.

"This Princess pays her respect to the lord and little prince."

"This Saintess is happy that your highness has invited me to bless your daughter." Helixis nodded gently similarly making Heun follow along with Azarios who simply could not understand why the adults were indulging in so many talks.

"This one is called Azarios, one had undertaken great pains to visit the princess."

"Oh my! That's so graceful of the little heir." Lyra laughed.

"Her ladyship may bless our daughter." Prince Vzeus was desperate, this was the first time he had pulled off his connections to make Helixis, the one who had not entered Gaerin to even bless the current Emperor bestow her grace on his daughter thus he was even more impatient when it came to the ceremony.

Words, and people mingled into the background when Helixis nodded before walking towards the silver crib against the wall. Although born as a direct royal descendant the little cloth of silk and wolf fur that wrapped the newborn baby made her look somewhat pitiful.

Her highness Saintess Helixis had a variety of blessings that she wished upon various royal heirs, from wealth to beauty, enormous power to become the strongest yet somehow her throat was sour when she looked at the baby.

Power, Wealth, Prestige, Honor, and Love she had it all yet at the end of the day the scars on her own soul were too many, these things that look like the key to happiness are none at all. When Helixis was born, a local priest had called her a descendant of the goddess herself-'Born to be a blue-blooded noble above all those noble men and women, this child shall be God of Emperors and protector of thrones.'

All Lies

She was raped and sold off to the emperor, reduced to the status of a concubine by King Reineous who played her like a doll. Sufferings and horror-filled life were what she had lived before becoming the 'God' that they said her to be.

"This Saintess blesses the little princess with health and happiness, storms and evil souls that might approach must disperse and disappear. I swear upon the divine celestial creators that this child will have a destiny of a dragon, heart of a saint, and valor of a knight, and as long as she desires even the world will belong to her."

"This Prince shall be forever grateful to her majesty."

Too much

Prince Vzeus who was smiling earlier had his lips settling into a straight line yet without expressing his opinions he invited the guests to the front pavilion for serving tea.

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While the adults were divulging into a discussion that seemed too monotonous, Azarios had sneaked inside the inner chambers of Prince Vzeus, it might be possible that the man did not noticed or either had faith thus decided not to follow the young heir.

Onyx boots clacked against the floor in a symphony too fast to be called calm before getting settled infront of the silver crib decorated with small daisy flowers with pears and little strawberry fruit hanging down at its canopy. Swift hands moved the curtain away thus making the dark ink irises clash into the hazy honey ones that were wide and vibrant yet were fluttering again and again as if she had just woken up from her sleep. Pink cheeks that seemed to be rubbed with rose petals incited the boy to poke his finger at it only for his hand to recoil in shock.

Too soft

A human or a cotton fruit?

The little dumpling could not stop his fingers when they pinched the cheeks again making the little princess that had never seen this unknown stranger cry a chorus of 'yaya' sounds.

Azarios panicked and could not think anything thus plucked a strawberry fruit hanging onto the canopy of the crib entwined with its vines, wiped it with his hands, and stuffed the jewel-looking ruby berry into the mouth of the newborn who stopped with her tantrums. Silence prevailed as the baby chew the fruit from her gums since there were no teeth and looked at the boy standing before her peeking into her tiny home.

Azarios who was not sure whether this was a human or not poked several times to check.

Indeed a spherical marshmallow

"This prince had brought a falcon of the west hairpin for you-" The words struck into the throat of the prince when he tried inserting it in the little golden threads only for it to slide and fall down on the wolf fur. After trying several times when the pin still refused to get settled in the silky hair of the princess Azarios asked furiously.

"Do you consider this one a fool?"

"Yayayayaya!!!!!!!"

Cotton fruit