Night Visits(24)

Looking over at Tamara, I saw her flinch slightly, a frown on her sleeping face as our daughter gave her warning.

"Donovan?" Her sleep heavy voice was filled with confusion as she struggled to open her eyes.

"Ssh, ssh, it's okay love, go back to sleep."

I pulled her closer, my hand going to the mound of her stomach to settle the children in her womb with my touch.

Sending calming waves to her mind, I put her back to sleep as I shielded her from the conversation about to take place.

It was becoming more and more evident that our children, especially Nicola, was stronger than even I expected.

With my hands on my wife I realized that she'd grown in the short few days we'd been in my home, it wasn't a huge difference, but it was enough that I noticed.

This was evidence that the children were growing at a more rapid rate in my realm than on earth.

These things were not covered in the legend of the empress, in fact, not much was known about this time before her birth, only that with her birth, as the daughter of 'The Golden One' she will bring much joy and prosperity to our land.

She will be loved by all from her birth, she would grow to be a magnificent empress of great beauty, inside and out.

There was much more written in the chronicles that had been hidden for a time, things that were hidden from even me, things no man had ever uttered.

I'll have to look into those things later, right now I needed to deal with my daughter.

'Let your mom sleep little empress, she needs her rest, these last few days have been very hard on her and we need to protect her.'

'She's strong father and grows stronger every day, we have been strengthening her as she sleeps, when the time comes she will be ready, as will we.'

'I don't want her hurt.'

'She won't be.' She said that last with such force I had no choice but to believe it.

'My daughter, you're just a little scary.'

I heard their laughter at my teasing.

'As to your warning, who's coming?'

'Vulcan.'

That one word might be enough to strike fear in many of our people, for me it was nothing, now I understood why the empress had sent out the call for the wolfkind to gather an army.

The Vulcan are a barbaric tribe with more animal traits than human, their savagery was well publicized throughout the galaxies.

The fact that they'd once been part of our realm meant they knew of the inner workings of our society, not to mention the lay of the land. And though had been hundreds of years since they’d been cast out in disgrace i had no doubt the ones who’d been born here still remembered.

I didn't want this fight to come to my people, I will not lose one soul to the perfidy of a mad woman.

No innocent blood must be shed because of this folly.

I opened my mind and senses and sent out a search in a wide arc while shielding the essence of my presence.

It took mere seconds for me to find the traitor and her gathering army; it was a massive army at that but still nothing for me to fear. I wondered at the madness of our enemies, did they not know, had they not read? How did they expect to defeat The Golden One? why would anyone take on what amounted to a suicide mission?

I would've stayed there longer but my daughter was feeling mischievous it seemed and sent a threatening wind amongst the gatherers, a cloud formed above their heads and in that cloud, the tail of a dragon.

I felt their fear before I pulled quickly back.

'Nicola, your mother.' I admonished her.

It didn't escape my notice that my son had taken a step back and let his sister lead, even now in the womb they'd fallen into order.

I'm thinking the enemy might've stood a better chance at leniency with my son than with the empress.

'She's asleep father, you have her well insulated."

'But your strengths will be draining on her, remember she is not as us, we must take more care.....'

'Father, do not underestimate mother's strength, she has to be very strong and capable to carry us after all.'

Well when you looked at it that way I guess the little terror had a point, still I didn't want my Tammy harmed, seems to me her daughter was a bit more warrior than diplomat.

I was beginning to wonder about those things that had been hidden in the chronicles, maybe they would shed some light on what to expect from the unborn empress since it seemed she wanted to start her reign from the womb.

It was going to be fun keeping her in check until it was her time to rule, which wouldn't be for quite some years yet.





They're talking again, I can't tell what about, but lately it's been getting easier for me to pick up the vibe when they were up to something.

Donovan was very good at protecting me from certain things but I was still able to discern some on my own.

I've also been noticing some changes in myself, like the fact that my senses were way more intense than ever before, I'm almost inclined to believe this was due to pregnancy but somehow I think something more was going on here.