"Do you know that...I still recall that day when I met you for the first time?"
Seth chuckled at the thought, "I didn't know you were that nostalgic."
"Just accepting my past, nothing more."
Hazel didn't hold much pleasant feelings from the time after her return to Hares after spending two years in Syris till the day she found out she was pregnant. The dreams at first for creating a family with Sylas were soon replaced with anxiety after they were told she could never have children due to her wound months before. And then there were the hopeless dreams. Everyday she woke up with tears streaming down her face as she had just been running around after small red or dark haired toddlers – their children. She felt uncompleted as she had always wanted to give Sylas the family he had been robbed of.
But she wasn't able to.
Then there came the arguments. Sylas claimed she was more than enough for him. That they could live together even without children to inherit them. Hazel didn't agree at all. She felt guilty and couldn't look him in the eyes as she always thought about her failure as a woman. She couldn't give him the family he wanted.
Till the day her maid, a healer in training, realized that something was indeed wrong with Hazel. As the time passed and Anna became more and more experienced she found out she was sensitive to poisons. She discovered that Hazel had been poisoned for a long time. The magician took a break for a while, just about a month and a half. Enough time for the poison to be removed from her body.
And enough for her to get pregnant.
There followed not less anxious months but as she knew she had finally succeeded in what she had always wanted those past years she fought back any setbacks that came to her.
And here she was, recalling those years with a small smile playing on her face.
"If it wasn't you I don't know what I should have done alone," she stated as a matter of fact, though it was a way of saying thank you she wouldn't tell him out loud.
"Don't exaggerate the things. You were more than capable of doing anything by yourself too, princess."
"Though I still don't understand some things, you know?"
The top room of the Black Tower was mostly visited by Hazel, Cassian and the duke but Seth had the habit to come by once in a while. Fortunately, not when Sylas visited too. Now the room was a complete mess and because of the fact that Hazel was the only one that had been in it for the last couple of days and she hadn't had the time to tidy, she felt a lot of discomfort at the moment as she used some spells to arrange some things at their right places.
"I know you won't understand everything. It would have been strange of you had been able to. Don't worry, you will find out one day," Seth said with a sheepish smile.
One that didn't please much Hazel.
"I thought we were some kind of friends."
"If two people who are tied up in a contract seem like that to you, well then. I'm not the one to judge you."
"I don't mean that! You can tell me anything and be sure I'll pay you back."
"Like the last time?"
"I'm ready to do you a favor. You never asked."
Seth looked intently at her for a while, then suddenly broke in a laugh. One that confused Hazel even more.
"Oh, princess, you seem to not understand something. It was never about you being able to pay me back. It's about whether I want to tell you something or not."
YOU ARE READING
The Healer Of Light And The Prince Of Darkness
RandomGenre: Historical Fantasy Age: 13+ In the world, almost all are ruled by the Great Empire of Syris and the Magic Kingdom of warriors Hares. There is a story among the great countries and it is not close to an end yet. There is one thing that everyon...