Akia woke up with the persistent nauseating burn of hunger in her gut. A high blood like herself only knew hunger as a means of protest has never felt such bubbling pain before. Even in her protests she was never left hungry.

Everytime she swore a hunger strike her parents would resist for hours, she'd miss lunch and breakfast with a pouty face but by dinner they would've given in.

Giving her what she wanted whilst calling her a brat and feeding her well.

"My queen, it's been 3 days and she hasn't eaten." Brenda said before opening the door to the queen and her maids. The queen's red hair is to her waist today, decorated only by her large gold crown. Her skin pale and her eyes a striking bright blue. she's wearing a beautiful peach cream with a square neckline with a pretty diamond necklace.

The 2 other maids in the room bow to her.

"My Queen" They said cheerfully.

Akia pretends to be asleep. She doesn't have the energy to bow to her.

As Akia laid hoping the queen would get what she was looking for and leave.

She felt a small hand in her shoulder, she turns around and the queen is standing there looking down at her.

She sits up and bows slowly.

The queen gives her a small smile.

"I brought lunch, please eat with me." She said gracefully and the smell of many different delicious foods enter the room.

Akia felt pressured, as she's handed eating utensils.

The queen gets a clothed napkin and placed it on Akia's lap. A maid came and placed a very large pillow on the carpeted floor opposite Akia and then held the queen's hand so she could sit down.

"I heard the king uprooted you from your home, it must've been a shock." The queen said pouring Akia some tea.

"It's delicious, a new blend of lemony black tea with strawberry and pomegranate." The queen said and held the cup for Akia to take. Akia's hands are shaking and she's sure that she'll spill the tea if she takes it but she also can't decline a cup from royalty, especially when they were being kind.

The queen noticed her shaky hands and walked over to her side of the table and placed the porcelain tea cup in front of her.

"You know it's completely undignified for a woman of your status to not eat in front of company. Not only does it degrade your family's class but you're showing weakness." The queen says calmly, every word making Akia feel worse. All the feelings of hunger she felt easily disappeared.

The queen began eating, everything pleasant and quiet. Akia takes a bread roll and places it on her plate before dissecting it.

"Do try the eggs, they're very satisfying today." The queen said and Akia says nothing once more.

The queen finishes eating while Akia sips on tea.

"I understand you must feel very powerless in this situation. I suggest that you submit to that powerlessness. I do not know where your outrage stems from, my king has never been known to be without consideration besides He did not ask for your father's head, so I find it very difficult to understand why you are acting as you are." The queen said before a maid presented her with a bowl to wash her hands with.

"I'll leave the rest for you." The queen said before being helped up and walking out.

Akia doesn't eat the queen's food, the tea she had drank sat uncomfortably in her stomach. They take her to the wash room after and she doesn't protest as they scrubbed her clean. All the color had drained out of her face, leaving a ghastly reflection of what once was.

She lays wordlessly, staring away from the 3 maids who seemed to share the room with her.

Akia woke up in a room she wasn't familiar with. Her body shakes when she looks up to see the royal doula and her maids once more.

"No, no.." Akia said weakly, her throat dry and rough.

The king was getting undressed by maids on the right side of the room. The room that was lit with red candles and the smell of roses.

There was a hazy enchantment in the room that made Akia feel like she was dreaming.

However the pain in her stomach made it obvious that this wasn't a dream.

"Lady Kenya, this is truly an honor. The man created by gods and gifted to us by the heavens is going to inseminate you. You'll be bless and treated like royalty for the rest of your life." The royal doula said with her low voice filled with excitement.

"Your majesty, PLEASE RECONSIDER. I will be worth nothing after this."

Akia yelled with all her strength before bowing to him in a royally recognized begging position.

For a second, the room is uncomfortable still. Everyone but the king stiff and unwilling to move. The maid's hands stopped the unwrapping of the king's inner robe and the king took over for her.

If Akia wasn't meant to bed the king she would've received a beating far worse than death for saying such a thing.

The court lady who wasn't far from the bed, making sure everything was going smoothly, clenched her small fist. This situation was out of her control because the king was there but if Akia had said that alone in her presence, there would be a cut on her cheek the size of her pearl ring.

"How dare you say such a thing. The king is not some lowly man." The court lady sneered, anger threatening to burst out of her.

"But is he not a man regardless." Akia said grabbing the fur she'd woken up on and bringing it closer to her chest.

The king chuckles bitterly, his dark long hair that had been tied on top of his head had been let down along with his royal robe.

"She's right, after this night she'll no longer be able to marry a high blood. As they say virtue is only for the richest." The king said before running his hand over long strands.

"Are we to be of assistance?" One of the maids said and the king shook his head.

"I can do it." The king refused the maid's offer to prepare his member before heading towards the bed. Akia moves back into the giant carved light wood head board.

The king stared at her, how frightened she looked, cowering away from him. A small sick part of him liked that she was so afraid. The sight of the girl in front of him with dark soft looking skin. The deep curve between her waist and her hip, her great large and well rounded breast. She was an image too pleasing to the eye for the king to need assistance.

He walked over to where she was crunched up, holding a satin covered pillow and fur to her body. She attempts to move back but he placed large hands on her waist, stopping her from doing something thought of as disrespectful.

He lifts her and gently placed her back first on the bed. He gets on top of her, spreads her legs despite her soft cries and pushed himself into her.

There was nothing she could do but cover her face and bite her lip. She couldn't dare to lay hands on the king to push him off or harm him in anyway.

Such a crime would not only harm her but her family as well. Akia wasn't ever known to be selfish.

The more she cried the harder it was for him to concentrate as he hovered over her. She clings on to the fur on the bed trying to cover herself.

Surely the girl should've ran out of tears to cry by now. The king thinks as he remembers the reports he's asked for about her only saying that she was drinking water and using all the hydration to cry herself to sleep. The court lady had written that she only bathed and cried. Looking at her body you'd never notice the results of the court lady's report but her face was dry and lifeless, a pitiful rendition of the girl he'd seen days before.

The king was losing his erection, the more she cried the more he remembers her as a child. She was blessed by his father too, held and passed around between his family members. A tiny little person barely able to open their sleepy eyes. It was becoming more and more difficult for him to maintain his erection.

He stopped, only to look down to where they were joined and see blood.

Bleeding during penetration was a sign of rejection but to royalty it was a crime. A crime against a king who was never to be bled on by any ordinary being.

"Turn and leave now." The king commands before anyone noticed and he was forced to take action against her. Everyone departed the room in silence.

"Akialine" The king said softly pulling out of the girl. She brought her arm down and her crying quieted.

"Akialine look at me." The king said, his voice barely above a whisper. He was talking to her alone. She opens her eyes, they meet his green ones and her heavy chest becomes even heavier.

"You're bleeding." He said and Akia uses her hands to cover her aching private area.

"I- it's Because I'm in pain." She said crying some more.

The king sighed, knowing that she probably didn't know of the law she was violating.

"I'm sorry.." The king said before leaning over her body again. His sharp eyes meeting her weak ones. "I'm sorry, please just endure it." His deep voice floats into Akia's being. It was strangely soothing.

"I will reward you with anything, anything your heart needs to heal from this. But I must do this." The king said sincerely before pressing his body down on her own.

She nods before coughing out a sob as he enters her deeper. Her sobs become silent hiccups as the king pushes himself into her.

He has to break into her again, this time soaking himself with more blood. A cruel drying reminder of what he was doing to her.

They both do what they have to do.

He continues to rock into her warm tightness and she tries her hardest not to fight against the pain of the intrusion.

"You're Okay," The king whispered the phrase into her ear.

"You're doing so well." He says as he begins to quicken his speed, trying to make the process go faster so she'd suffer a little less.

He imagines that she wants this, that she had arms around his waist and she was eagerly moaning and biting on to his shoulder. Too enmeshed in pleasure.

He imagines that she's a siren, a pretty little minx who loves nothing more than being filled to the brim. Imagines that she's begging him to fuck her harder, faster.

He imagines such things before he ejaculates inside her, Akia's eyes widen and she chokes on a sob as a sudden intense surge of heat enters her.

Akia loses consciousness almost immediately after. The king removes her blooded robe from around her body. He walks towards the side of the room where a table stood holding a jar of water.

He does the best that he can wiping the blood away, before removing the stained fur from the bed. He tossed it all into the fireplace and then watched it roar to life.

Once all evident of her bleeding has been discarded, he invites all the women back into the room again.

As he's busy getting his inner robes tightened around him.

The court lady gasps and the maids besides her drops her jaw.

The king turns around to see Akia's womb glowed bright with little beads of light.

He looks on in disbelief.

Everyone looks on at the bright lights shiny through her skin. A truly heavenly sight.

The court lady falls to her knees, she bows four times and the other maids do the same following her lead.

The royal doula is the last to see the sight walking slowly in with her walking stick in front of her. She balances herself well on the stick before taking a good look at Akia.

"The sun will be in our midst soon." She confirms to the king, who turns around, allowing his maids to redress him.

Akia is alone in the room she was placed in before. There's a rhythmic pounding in her head and an ache between her legs that leaves her whole lower half paralyzed in fear of creating more pain.

She feels eyes upon her and she turns to look at her on lookers hoping with everything in her that it was April. She would've wanted it to be her mother if she wasn't horrified at the idea that her mother would be disgusted at the fact that she lost her virtue while being unmarried.

Instead of her big sister standing there like she hoped for, it's the same three maids.

"We will never forget your sacrifice." Brenda said in awe at her. Akia felt a tear drop slide down from her eyes.

"Sacrifice?, what sacrifice?, all she did was get fucked." Hazel said.

There's a knock on the door and the quieter maid gets off from the chair where she was sat reading to answer it.

Mina walks in holding a tray of food. The smell of beans and rice enter Akia's nose. Beans and rice the way April made it with a twinge of strange herbs that she picked from the garden Akia tended to behind their house.

"Good morning lady Kenya." The tall girl said politely before setting the large bowl on the table.

"Your sister came in this morning and brought this for you to eat. She said you enjoyed it a lot. We asked that she tell us the recipe so we can prepare it for you whenever you like." Mina said and Akia stood up from the bed, lifting her legs and placing them on the floor.

"B-bring it to me." She said, her voice broken from crying the night before.

Mina dishes the food out into a smaller dish and takes it to Akia with a soup spoon. Akia eats quietly, bowl after bowl until there's nothing but grains of rice at the bottom of the big bowl.

The only thought in her mind was

Who would love her now?

-

The court lady recounts the event of the last evening to the queen in the presence of The royal doula as they shared tea and various scones.

"Her womb glowed as if it'd been lit aflame." The court lady said animatedly.

"The first insemination was successful." The royal doula said and the Queen turns around to face her. Her face twist into an unreadable expression.

"First?" She asked with an even tone.

"It will take 3 more inseminations for our sun to rise. But the lights indicate the beginning of his arrival, it's to show us that we are on the right path." The royal doula explained.

"If that was the case why didn't you tell me year after year that I became pregnant that I wouldn't be giving birth to the sun king."

"Well, when I read the prophecy I assumed it was a metaphor. I now know better."

The Queen bites her lip, she had barely made it through the first one. 3 more, would render her insane.