A Nagas tale

A proud Father and Husband

It's been two weeks since my mother and Livy came to check on Audrey. I look at the reports with all of the damage done to Zeras and Ez. The earthquakes resulted in several landslides damaging several houses including mine. The ports in Zeras have been damaged extensively which would cost us about 80,000 Dile. I sigh looking at the bill for repairing the buildings in our village. Thats another 10,000 Dile I drop the documents already feeling my head throb. My eyes catch Audrey walking past me holding a stack of books. I get up knowing she was not fully recovered to be carrying around such heavy books. I quickly take the books from her earning my disapproving tongue click. Audrey locks eyes with me grabbing two of the books from my arms. I lift the stack moving them away from her. She frowns "Kogen! I can carry a few books!" she argues. I shake my head "No, I can see your hands are still shaking!" I rebuff. She frowns picking up a different stack of three books. I frown "Audrey! you need to rest." I hiss putting the stack I held down and reach for the books she picked up. She turns away from me like a child trying to defy their parent. I groan quickly wrapping her in my arms. "Audrey, you need to rest," I repeat. She holds the books up and away from me. "I am fine! I need to stretch my legs," she grumbles. I nod "I understand you want to stretch your legs and do something but you can't go around carrying heavy books." I can see how restless she's been. It's been two weeks and her aura has not recovered and the forest's aura has vanished as well. I can tell her lack of aura has also impacted the girls. They are restless around her and only ever end up falling asleep when I am around. I look at Audrey as she struggles to get free. I turn to the desk seeing all of that paperwork. I lift her off the ground "Kogen! Put me down!" she barked wanting me to let her down. I walk back to the desk and sit on the chair. I pull her up in a comfortable spot before taking the books from her hands and setting them down. She looks at the papers stacked on the desk. "If you want something to do, then summarize these for me." I give her something less straining to do. She looks at the papers before looking at me. I can tell she wants to fight me on this too. I grab her chin carefully before leaning closer to her. "Audrey, I am worried about you. I understand you are restless due to your aura not recovering." I kiss her lips wanting to stop her from arguing with me any more than she already has. She returns the kiss deepening it before putting her hands on my cheek. I pull away and look at her "Please just sit with me." I ask. Her face is a soft pink color as she nods letting out a defeated sigh. "hm alright, It's been a long time since we've done this." she sounds less upset. I release the breath I had not noticed holding in. 'Thank god she gave in.' I rest my forehead on her head. 'I didn't want to be mean to her. I liked the way she is but sometimes I hated how mad she made me.' I pick up the documents again giving her some of the newer reports to sift through. After a few hours, the girls start waking up crying in their cribs. I follow Audrey to the sleeping area where the girls are both crying. I look at them both seeing their red faces "hm they need a diaper change." Audrey murmurs before picking Tabitha up. I pick Astrid up and take them to the bed where we can change them without much trouble. Tabitha cried frustrated that she could only see me. Audrey tries to calm her down but I can see she is growing frustrated with Tabitha's reaction to her. She steps back taking a deep breath before stepping to her again. She quickly changed Tabitha's diaper but she did not stop crying. I learned from my mother that babies cannot see until they are at least 3 months old. So they rely on their aura to see their surroundings and that is the only way they can recognize their parents. "It's okay Tabby momma is here." Audrey cooed doing her best to calm Tabitha down. I finish changing the much calmer Astrid and watch Audrey's eyes fill with frustration. I picked Tabitha up holding her against my chest which quickly calmed her down. Audrey looks at me her eyes watered in frustration. She picks up the dirty diapers and takes them away. I look at the girls as they settle down. Tabitha sucks on her hand which tells me she is getting hungry. Audrey comes back shortly I watch her stack a bunch of pillows on the ground. She points to it "Sit." she orders. I nod watching her bring over the bassinet we had bought for Iris before. She sets it down and waits for me to lay the girls down. She walks to the bed grabbing the blanket and an extra pillow. I sit down ready to help her feed the girls. Audrey sat between my legs covering us in the blanket before setting the pillow on her lap. She grabs Astrid and starts feeding her. 'The girls are two months old today.' I caress Astrid's hair looking at this little girl I felt proud. I am not sure if Audrey knows but I have so much respect and love for her. I look at my girls all three of them are beautiful fighters. That day Audrey went into premature labor I thought I would lose them for sure. The world seemed to have stopped when Sienna contacted me. My mind was filled with fear that they would not make it. I look at Audrey who coos at Astrid "You are eating so well Astrid." she whispers to her words of praise. I felt useless during the hours of her labor. I wanted to comfort her to make the pain she felt go away but, all I could do was offer my aura to keep her breathing. The way she looked at me eyes filled with worry and determination when Tabitha struggled to escape the vaginal canal is etched in my mind. Her body wanted to give up unable to push Tabitha out but Audrey did not let herself give up. I hear Tabitha coo in delight as Audrey picks her up. "do you want me to burp Astrid?" I ask. She nods "Please." she whispers. I pick up my drowsy little girl to burp her. Audrey lets out a sigh "Tabby you are such a loveable little girl." she coos as Tabitha eats. I lean back on the pillows to burp Astrid without disturbing Audrey. I look up at the ceiling feeling so blissfully in love with my small family. I knew when the girls were conceived I would burn this world for them and their mother. I hear the quiet burp escape Astrid's throat. I sit up content with her quiet burp I rub her back a bit more so she can fall asleep. I look at Tabitha who is still drinking happily from her mother's tit. I lay Astrid in the bassinet seeing she's already asleep. I Audrey turn to Astrid giggling fondly at our sleepy child. I watch her carefully seeing her smile without any frustration or anger. "Audrey," I call her name. She turns her head to look at me exposing her cheek to me. "I love you." I express my love to her. I can see her cheeks turn a bright red before she turns away from me. She nods "I... I love you too." she answers shyly. I chuckle at her reaction. This girl can stare down General Ammar and The god Ozaies with the biggest balls in the world. But, being told 'I love you.' Makes her shy away. I lean on her back watching Tabitha fill her cheeks with milk before drinking it. "Kogen," Audrey calls my name. I look at her curiously. Her eyes are fixed on me I can tell she wants to say something but she shakes her head. "F..forget it." she murmurs her face turning a slightly deeper shade of red. "what is it?" I asked curious about what she wanted to say. She shakes her head "I just wanted to say, thank you." she murmurs. I can tell that is not what she wanted to say but I accept her thanks. 'She's been doing that a lot.' I looked around the library seeing she had already put away the books in this area. 'ugh I thought she was resting this entire day!' I look at her ready to scold but stop seeing the loving smile on her face as she watches Tabitha. 'I guess I can let this pass.' I watch Audrey yawn. "You should take a nap after Tabitha is settled." I offer. She looks at her before nodding. "Hm, I guess I should." she whispers. I feel a bit tired myself looking at the pillows she stacked up. Once Tabitha was done eating Audrey started burping her "Audrey mind getting up a little bit?" I ask. She nods getting to her feet. I grab a few of the other blankets and lay them down by the pillow readying a spot for us to nap on. I hear Tabitha burp in satisfaction which earns her a giggle from Audrey. She carefully rocks Tabitha to sleep before laying her down with Astrid. I lay on the makeshift bed holding out my hand for Audrey to join me. Her brown eyes watched me deviously. She crawls into bed and sighs "Oh how I've wanted a good nap with you." she grumbles. I understand what she means. It's been hell since this war broke out unable to take a mid-day nap with Audrey. I wrap her in my arms and pull her closer. She sighs turning to me she nuzzles her face against my chest as usual. I hug her tightly finally being able to take a mid-day nap with her. Sleep is always so easy when she is with me. Although right now her scent is faint I loved the freshness of it. I could lose myself in her scent in her voice in her gaze. This woman I called my wife is the perfect orchard for me to lose myself. "Kogen." I open my eyes and look at her. Her brown eyes swirled with mischief "Hm?" I ask she rubs her face against my chest again as if to hide. "Never mind." she whispers. I look at her through heavy eyelids. 'What is she thinking?' I catch her scent a bit stronger than before. I feel her arm snake over my side. "How long do you think it would take to conceive another litter?" She whispers against my chest. I look at her again a little taken aback by her question but excited to see what trouble she will get herself into.