The Healer Of Light And The Prince Of Darkness

34. Not Suitable To Be The Fourth

"You... How...?"

Leo had a puzzled expression on his face while looking at Tara first, then at anyone around him. Hazel was doing her best to keep her smile hidden but nevertheless the man was too shocked to see it.

"You..."

Then in his vision came Rinea, who had just arrived accompanied by no other than Gale. Due to some issues Cassian had to go to the king and the girl was left alone only to have the royal knight as a company just a minute later.

It seemed he had followed them like a loyal knight watched over his master.

"Leo, are you okay?" Rinea didn't know anything about her uncle's confusion.

"Do you nee..."

"Sweetie, tell me..." He grabbed her shoulders and looked closely in her eyes.

Rose pink eyes met another pair of such colorful eyes and Rinea blinked in surprise. Leo had never violated her personal space. He had said – and had been saying a lot of times after that – that he would always respect her and it was her decision to tell him anything that bothered her.

"Is... Is Tara p-p-pregnant?"

Rinea blinked. Again.

It was...

'It's all about that?'

"Of course, she is, dummy Leo," Rinea laughed as she thought the captain was referring to Tara's pregnancy as to some kind of illness.

"She's going to give me a brother!" Rinea added cheerfully, patting Leo on the cheek.

Leo's eyes, dumbfounded for a few seconds, then lit up and he turned around, grabbing Tara and lifting her.

"I'm going to be a father!"

"Not just you, dummy!" Tara hit him on the neck annoyedly, but grinning.

"You, dummy..."

Her expression softened and she leaned, kissing him on the lips. Rinea immediately turned her back on the view embarrassed.

"Oh, someone's ashamed."

"I'm not!"

Rinea glared at Gale, who was joking without any restrain. Such a...

"A boy?"

She turned to the side from where the voice was heard and saw a confused Hazel.

"Excuse me?"

"You said 'a brother'. What do you mean? My personal healer, Alice, examined her and couldn't find out the baby's sex."

"I-I don't know... It's just an in-intuition."

She couldn't point out how but the moment Tara told her about the pregnancy Rinea was really delighted but not that surprised. As if...

As if she had already known.

And the sex... Well, the moment she focused on the energy she felt coming from Tara's body, she could sense a woman and a little tiny life, a boy, growing in her stomach.

"I guess it's just an intuition," Rinea managed to repeat without stuttering.

Hazel looked at her a bit longer with suspicious eyes and then said, before turning around, "You are a little genius yourself. That's an amazing talent you have there."

'Amazing... Talent?'

Rinea averted her eyes, thinking. It had something to do with her other blood. The reason she was titled 'Impure' was because of her not inheriting the Hera's abilities for telekinesis and vibration control, but rather having some kind of powers that couldn't be seen in both of the Hera's and the marques' wife's family.