The Dancing Princess
Episode Five
The king was pissed about what the herbalist said, but he just could not unleash his ānger on his wife at the moment because she was weak.
"I knew it right from the time this woman started walking around and acting suspiciously; I knew something was not right," he said, shrugging his shoulders.
"I will not father any bād child.
Even if the goddess wants to make them bad, she should just know it," he whispered to himself, shifting away from the villagers and the herbalist.
As he walked back to where the people were, the queen opened her eyes and held her forehead.
"What is going on here, and why am I just lying here with everyone staring at me?" she asked, lifting her head to look for the king, who had just come in time.
"My Queen, it’s a long story. The king will tell you everything you need to know later; for now, you need to go inside your chamber and rest,” the herbalist said.
Everyone started leaving the palace one after the other, with just the king, his guards, maid, and the queen left; the native doctor left with the people.
The queen was just too weak to walk, so the king had to let her go inside and rest before speaking with her.
He helped her walk inside her chamber and made sure she slept on the bed before leaving to think about everything he had heard for the day.
"I know I thrēatened that I would get a second, third, or even fourth wife who would give me a child, but I did not ask that woman to go begging Ala for a child.
All the children that woman has given to the villagers over the years are either dėaf, dūmb, blīnd or even crīppled, or even dėad once they are brought into this world."
"More reason nobody wants to go back for a child. I wonder what will be the fate of this one," the king murmured to himself as sleep took over him.
He had a dream where he saw a crīpplėd child crawling towards him with people running after the child.
The child was calling, "Papa, papa." Once the child got to the king, he lifted his hands for the king to carry him.
"Carry me," the child said. The king looked to the left and in front of him; he realized that it was just him and the child, and the people pursūing the child had run away.
He simply looked at the child, conscious of himself.
"May the gods fōrbid, I’m not your father," he yelled as the child held his leg. He woke up with a scream, "Get away from me, stay away!"
He shook his right leg where the boy held, not knowing he was doing the same in the real world.
He hit his leg on the wall as he woke up, making him more pissēd. "That can never be my child; I can never father a cripplė," he said to himself.
Just then, one of the maids went to inform him that the queen was awake.
As she knocked, and while the king was trying to process the dream he had, he let out a scream, "Go away from there" he yelled at the maid, who shivered.
As the maid was about to leave, she said, "My king, please, I came to inform you that the queen is awake and she asked me to call you."
Hearing about the queen, he responded, "Tell her to come into my chambers now."
The queen was still weak, which was why she asked the king to go to her chamber instead, but the maid could not argue with the king, she simply had to do what she was asked to do.
As she walked back to the queen’s chambers, she knocked."Where is he?" the Queen lifted her head and asked, and the maid stood still for a minute, then said, "He asked you to come instead," ignoring the Queen’s watering eyes that looked as though she was crying.
Then Queen Adaeze managed to lift her bōdy with the help of the maid, and she walked to the king’s chamber.
As soon as she knocked and the king’s special guard opened the door, the Queen lay down on the bed while the king dismissed his guard from his presence by simply waving his hand.
"I want you to get rīd of that thing insīde your stomach this moment.
You can take something to get rid of it, else I will use my hands and kīłł it once it is out of your womb," the king said with so much rāge that frightėned Queen Adaeze.
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