Heart To Heart

Who's Edrice

I woke up but stayed in bed. I heard 3 knocks on my door "Come in!" I was facing my wall but knew instantly who it was. "Come on Matthew" yup, my mom. She turned me over "Let's get up, we have training to do" I sat up "For?" My mom sat on the edge of the bed "I want you to be stronger than me at one point" I laughed "Well your crazy strong" She ruffled my hair "No I just know what I'm doing" I got out and she walked out. Bella, my personal maid walked in "Morning Matthew" I nodded my head slightly "Morning, say what's gotten into my mother?" She was acting a bit weird "I'm not quite sure but It the fact that Today is Edrice's birthday" She placed my clothes on my bed along with my shoes. "Who's Edrice?" She had her back turned but I knew that was something she wasn't supposed to mention. "Well.. That's a question your mother should answer. Breakfast is ready" she left quickly. I washed my face and did everything I needed to then met my mom downstairs. Several other maids and butlers placed food down and cleaned all around us "Mom?" She looked up "Who's Edrice?" All of the servants gasps. My mom coughed "She was my first born"

"You had a child?" She nodded "What happened?" My mother looked sick, she held her stomach "Are you okay?" I didn't want her to vomit. She nodded "I'll tell you later" I went the whole day without another mention of Edrice. Until when my mother found me by the garden. "It's later now" I stood up and followed her. I know I've lived her for 4 years but I've never explored any levels or rooms that I wasn't invited to. So when she took me somewhere inside our castle I made sure to remember how I got here. It was a silent walk. We went into a poorly lit room which didn't show any of the four corners. She turned on a switch and this room was filled with paintings. Some were hanged others weren't, some were torn. She handed me an old worn out piece of paper. It showed my mom and a baby. She pointed at the baby "That's Edrice. I gave birth to her when I was 17" She had Small horns and pointed ears "Where? With who?" She softly giggled "I could tell you the story but" I sat down on the floor "I want to hear, please" She sat down on the floor and took a deep breath in. "I was still being controlled by Amar and was no longer a princess. I was seeing a demon named Amon. Amar knew about him and she would give me hell for it but I didn't care because I love him" This is why we don't breed out of our species I thought as she continued "Amon wanted a son but if it wasn't he wanted nothing to do with it. I tried to hide my pregnancy from Amar"

"Why?"

"She owned me, she had a say in what I did"

"When how where you her knight? It sounds like your a slave" She sighed "Yeah I guess It does. But that's how it was back then. I owed her and she made sure of that" this is why I'm not in debt "I believe she knew because when I missed behave she would whip around my stomach and was slightly more violent with me"

"She whipped you?! Mom!" I reached over towards her and held her hands "I was a little demon plus she is my friend" I shook my head "Friend's don't whip each other" she smiled "Friendship and work aren't the same" Lords "But I told another knight by accident"

"How?"

"I was training and He went for an open stop which was my stomach and I screamed it out and jumped back. He stopped but told Amar. She put me in complete solitude"

"What did she do?"

"She put me in a room with no bed or windows and cut my sugary and fatty food down. Every month there was a doctor who came in to check on me. I was doing fine though they never told me who my baby was doing. I didn't even know the gender. Soon I Amar and a few knights took me to the hospital. The knights waited outside while Amar stayed in with me. She leaned in and told me something awful… but she always did"

"What did she say?"

"I'm not sure you want to hear"

"I wouldn't have asked if I didnt" she grabbed my hands a little tighter "She said 'This will be the most painfullest thing you'll ever experience. You disgust me. You and all of your kind will end up dead at my hands' I cried. I was already emotional and in pain, that was just the cherry on top" That's some friendship "I thought Amar would leave or insult me but she grabbed my hand for me to squeeze. It was PAINFUL. I honestly don't know how demons or any horned creature to give birth. But I held her even though Amar tried taking her from me. I named her Edrice Nile. She was beautiful and I fell in love but Amar told me I couldn't keep her"

"So you put her up for adoption?" My mother let go of my hand "I really wish I had the option" She covered her face and began crying. I almost instantly wrapped my arms around her. She held onto me as if it was life or death. "I begged for her not to! They took her from me!" I could feel her tears fall onto my back and through my clothes "They took her life" She cried for a reasonable amount of time. I learn a little more about my mother. She even showed me her tomb stone. There isn't a body there but I like it. She even placed it next to her brothers, my uncle.