The Dancing Princess
Episode Six
"My king, I don’t understand anything that was going on here.
Were we not supposed to be at the village square for the festival?" she asked him, unable to understand anything at all, then she held her forehead frōwning.
The king gave her a bad stāre.
"Oh, I see, you are just acting up so that I will not question you. Why did you decide to disōbey me?
You know I’m the most respected king in this kingdom, and even the neighboring villages do not joke with me. But because you know you are my wife and I won’t be heārtless enough to pūnish you, you decided to disōbey me."
The king asked as he stood up with his eyebrows raised; his face had completely changed like he was going to pass judgment on the Queen, like he normally does with his subjects.
She was the only one that could calm him down; she would sing and dance for him, and he would be completely calm as if he were not even angry.
"My king, please calm down and tell me what I did. I don’t like it when you are this way," the Queen said in a low tone.
His reason for not getting a second wife was not actually because he could not; he loved the Queen so much that he never wanted anything that would hūrt her, although even the Queen did not know about it, as he was unpredictable.
He never acted in a way that would prove he did; she saw herself as one of his subjects.
"One of the guards told me that he saw you going to Ala’s stream and that he saw you begging Ala to give you a child.
You know fully well that all the children she has given to the people in this village end up having one defōrmity or another, and you still went ahead to ask her for a child even when I wārned you."
"Queen Adaeze waited for him to unleash his frūstration, and when he was done, she said, 'Ala gives good children to people who ask with all their hearts and to people with a pure heart.
She knows my heart is pure; I have never wished anyone bad, so bad things will not come to me,' the Queen said with so much confidence.
"If only this faith you have in her will work for you. Why do you think everybody stopped asking her for something?
She will end up taking something important away from you. I know it’s because of me you decided to do this, but there is still time; you can undo whatever you did.
Just get rīd of that child in your womb,' the king said as he turned his back on his beloved Queen. In order to change the topic and avoid further argument, Queen Adaeze lifted her eyes as she saw the king turning his back on her.
She asked, "What happened in the village square, my king? And why were the herbalist and some of the villagers here?"
It was then that the king realized his wife could not remember what happened at all. He felt there was no need to hide anything from her, so he started telling her about everything.
"You fāinted at the village square while you were dancing.
You were dancing as if the gods had suddenly taken over you, and they brought you back to the palace. Then the herbalist said you are carrying a child in your womb, which will either be a blessing or a cūrse."
The king was not done talking when the Queen said, "My king, the herbalist talked about blessing or cūrse, and it is up to us to define the fate of our child.
As the mother, I know my child will be a blessing to this village and even to the villagers after it; he or she will bring happiness to all."
"Don’t bother yourself, my king," Queen Adaeze tried to convince her husband, who had already made up his decision that if she did not get rīd of the "ēvil child", according to him, he would help her do it.
"I just hope what you are saying will work for you because I will monitor this pregnancy myself, and if there is any issue, I will get rid of it.
Or better still, I will wait until whatever is there comes to earth, then I will use my hands to strāngle it before your eyes." The Queen had to rush back to her chambers, crying and praying that the child should be good.
"You know I have been mōcked and called barren. I want you to come out without any defōrmity.
Gods of our land, please hear the cry of a mother," she said, touching her stomach with her right hand.
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