§ I think Rod could tell that I was feeling cornered. I was being all but ordered to get married, and as he had pointed out in the past, an arranged marriage was a normal situation for a person of my station to be in. But the concept in the indefinite future is a whole different animal than an imminent …

§ Anguish. Frustration. Indignation. Anxiety. Bitterness. Doubt. Uncertainty. Anger. The emotions roiling my mind just kept washing through me, one after another. Actually, add resentment to that list. What kind of nonsense was Rod spewing? Start treating yourself like a pregnant woman, my ass! Okay, although he was agreeing with them, he was only relaying the words of the Fairy …

§ Back in the Royal Grove, before we departed for Narses, I met briefly with the captain of the fairy warrior group escorting us. We discussed the pair of mages that Oberon was sending along as a countermeasure against Demon Blindness. She found it frustrating that her people couldn’t be trusted without having mortals along to keep an eye on …

§ Once we were on our way, with our people and the Pendorian officers crammed into four of these big vehicles, (except the fairy warriors, who chose to seek their own quarters), Colonel Morgas filled us in on some details of the current situation. She had to shout to be heard over the engine and the teapot din of the …

§ Oberon had another squad of fairy warriors assist Serera in escorting us from Tëan Tír, and included a pair of flying mages riding hippogriffs to monitor and, if necessary, purify them, as the only currently available countermeasure against Demonic Blindness. In the skies of Western Pendor, an escort of Pendorian sea-wyvern-mounted aerial cavalry joined them. Despite being so far …

§ My meeting with the Fairy Queen, which I had hoped would clear things up, only made them cloudier. Well, I can’t say it quite that way, can I? I had new things to be confused about, like Morrígan’s very odd claim about the relationship between my mother and father. I had been taught that he had ensnared her and …

§ Although Morrígan had started out by making me put my questions on hold long enough to have a good cry, my mind was still an obstacle course of problems and issues, and I still had to talk to her about them. She had invited two experts along for me to consult as well. Rather than allowing idle talk with …

§ I won’t say that Morrígan entirely gave up on her desires, but she kept her advances to a minimum and limited her actions to some light groping and kissing. Maybe she would have tried for more, but I remembered that I had come here with things to ask her and forced the issue. “Your Majesty, I have to discuss …

Just a quick reminder that I am taking the last full week of every other month off now. Next chapter unlock will be May 2nd. § After I received a promise from the Fairy Queen for a private consultation, the subject of Mother’s death continued to loom over the dinner, keeping the mood muted. But finally, conversation turned toward the …

§ The whole situation still felt very odd to me, and if I didn’t consider Tenre generally trustworthy, regardless of her clear dislike of me, I would have been turning everyone around and leaving at this time. I looked over to Dilorè and Serera, and they had the same slight frown on their face that I imagine I was wearing. …