Blood in the rose thistles

Chapter 3

Alexina puts down her son's in their bed and starts rummaging through their drawer. To look for something to wear.

"Mommy what are you doing?" Alaric who finally calms down asks, his eyes are still red from crying.

"The two of you want to go outside right? Then we would go." She said and took some of his son's clothing that they will be using for today and for tomorrow since she predicted that they will be staying a night at one of the inn in the town.

"Really?!!" Alaric asked in glee and was looking at her happily. Alexina nodded her head.

"I notice that you really love swords so I'm going to buy one for your 5th birthday next month. Take it as my gift for you. And there are things that I need to buy for our house and things like clothes." Alexina explains to them and guides them to their bathroom.

"So, your birthday is almost their mother? Your birthday is on May 11 and ours will be on May 12." Ambrose asks and takes a dip in the tub that was full of bubbles. Alaric was already there and playing the bubble.

"Indeed, I gave birth to the two of you five minutes after my fifteenth birthday. I gave birth to you on May 12, Year 778 of the Felix Calendar." Alexina replied and helped them take a bath.

When she finished bathing and changing the children, she asked them to sit still as she was going to get ready for their journey outside.

After a while, she gets their spatial pocket bag that contains the money and the clothes that she brings for them and tuck it in the pocket that she sews under her skirt.

They started walking to the massive gate that was covered with black rose thorns. Alexina put up her silver robe and leaned down to put on her son's robe that was identical to her.

"Ambrose, Alaric remember no one should see your bright red hair, when we are in the town make sure that your robe is up all the time except if we're the only one in the room. Promise me." Alexina asks them if someone will see their hair in the town that they will be going to. The father of Ambrose and Alaric will surely know about their existence. She was anxious as her children are like a carbon copy of their dad except for their eyes that they got from her.

"Promise." Both of them said at the same time. Alexina smiled before standing up and started walking near the gate.

Alaric slid next to his brother's side and whispered.

"Maybe, mommy doesn't want our father to meet us. I have this theory that we took our looks from our father since we don't like our mother except for her eyes." Ambrose nodded.

"If I'm going to see our father, I'll surely kick his balls so hard. How dare he leave our mommy behind and trapped us in this place." Ambrose said viciously and Alaric nodded. They are thinking that if they ever meet someone with red hair in their journey they will kick it's balls if they are male.

On the other side, there's a red-haired male who suddenly sneezed while he was enjoying his life in his room.

'Is someone talking shit about me?'

Alexina arrived at the bottom of the massive gate and gestured to her son's to step back a little.

When she noticed that her son's stepped back, she raised her hands and the gate rumbled.

Alaric was stunned when the back roses that were covering the gate like it was locking or protecting them started to move as his mother was raising her hand.

"This is like Korea, people in this place also have some abilities or magic." Alaric heard Ambrose talking.

"I wonder if we have one." Alaric told Ambrose. Alaric keeps looking at how the roses started to disappear from the gates and how graceful his mother looks as she was controlling the roses.