Rebellion and New Life

Chapter 19

Another week passed. Chamberlain stayed in bed during most of it, not wanting to move much, but would manage to try near every day. La came by to help him if he wasn't in the throne room at a certain time. Tasks around the castle still needed to be done with no Gelflings around to do them.

The General had taken another batch of Garthim out of the castle to get more Gelflings for their essence, so he was off the Chamberlain's back for awhile.

La had gone out for a couple days to that special spot in the wilderness to get some of those shelled treats her mate was asking for. She liked them herself, but they tasted sweeter to her mate, who was almost incapacitated right now. She wanted to do things for him now that he could barely get out of bed for even the daily Crystal ceremony.

La would go tell the Emperor that the Chamberlain wasn't feeling well.

The Emperor demanded to know what was going on once again and let her know that apparently, the Scientist knew something, and he was going to send for him shortly if La didn't know what was going on.

"His back is hurting so bad. And he has bad indigestion." La tried to make up something fast.

"Very well. But he better get over it by tomorrow." SkekSo declared.

La was grateful that the Emperor had believed her. She hurried to tell her mate.

"I told him you are unwell and couldn't make it to work today... he seemed to understand... you can just rest." La said.

"Like my job around castle, but baby not making it easy on me." Sil replied.

La sat on his bed and put a hand on his stomach, giving it a little rub. The baby kicked out at her hand. "You shouldn't give your parent such a hard time, little one." she said. It kicked her hand again, as if answering her.

"Almost like he hears you. He moves after you talk to him." Sil suggested.

La smiled. It would be nice to know if her baby could hear her even from inside her mate's belly.

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The next day, Sil still didn't feel well, but he made it to his job and did what he could before going to bed again.

The day after that, he had a strongest craving for those shelled treats, and his mate was so busy doing work for the Scroll Keeper that she couldn't make it to the usual place for catching those treats for him. He decided to go himself. He felt well enough to be out of bed and was done with his tasks. But he was determined to go to bed when he returned.

His back still ached, but he was managing. He made it to the carriage station. "Armaligs, prepare to depart!" Sil ordered.

Three Armaligs slowly made their way to the carriage Sil was using. Sil managed to climb inside it as the little slug-like creatures got in and rolled into balls, like tires. He felt the carriage raise and begin moving. These three were used to going to the place every day, or near that.

When La finished her work, she went to check on her mate to see how he was doing. She didn't find him in his room or their private spot. He must have other work around the castle, or went to the secret shell-treat spot. That was a really bad idea in his condition, as far along as he was now and hardly able to move. She just hoped he would make it back alright by himself.

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The carriage arrived and stopped. Chamberlain carefully manoeuvred himself out of it to go find his favorite treats. It was a little ways off.

He had been feeling some small pains all morning; he had just thought they were just regular pregnancy cramps. But they had been getting stronger on the somewhat bumpy ride. Sil had grunted and groaned the whole way.