Sorry about the week break, was on vacation! Now let’s continue with Part II: Choice of Intrigues!
“Is he not beautiful?” you say to the Queen. Agustina does not reply.
Five years have passed. It is a hot summer day in the city of Orovilla. You and the Queen stand in your palace apartments, looking down at your newborn son in his cradle. It took a frighteningly long time for the two of you to find a Life Mage willing to perform the spell that would grant you a child, notwithstanding the fact that Agustina is the Queen. Neither you nor the Queen are favorites with the Life Mage Houses nowadays, for obvious reasons.
But Ricardo was worth the wait. He is a fine healthy child, with pink cheeks and your golden hair and blue eyes and the Queen’s forehead and mouth…and he is a Death Mage, like both of his parents.
“There was never any great likelihood of him being a Life Mage,” you say cautiously. There was, in fact, no more than a 1 in 100 chance that a Death Mage (such as yourself) and a Death Mage with some Life Mage blood (like the Queen) would engender a Life Mage child.
Agustina shakes herself out of a reverie. “Oh, I know. It is only that it would have made things much easier.” She kisses you absently on the forehead and turns away. Her interactions with you are increasingly impersonal these days.
How are you going to respond?
- Angrily.
- Tearfully.
- Charmingly.
- I just let her go.
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