The next day morning, they have breakfast together.
"I’ll leave you guarded by Saul. I need to organize everything for our departure." He tells her.
"All right. Let know if you need any help."
He smiles and kisses her lips.
"Rest. Focus on healing this leg."
"Sure. But don’t take too long to co see ." She says.
"I won’t. I can’t handle it." He says kissing her again. "I’m the happiest male in this world."
"And I’m the happiest female."
"I want to enjoy my ti alone with you as much as we can until we find the others." He smiles mischievously, making her giggle.
"Silly, lion." She pokes him, and he chuckles, kissing her again.
When he leaves, she sighs and thinks carefully. She ditates and looks after Claud. She finds him playing with the cubs, she looks at them emotionally and cries because she misses them so much.
She doesn’t know if they would understand listening to her voice in their heads and not being capable of seeing her, so she refrains from doing that.
"My love?" Astri calls for Claud.
"Astri.. Are you there?" He asks in his mind, stopping what he is doing.
"Yes. I’m here."
"This will tire you too much, love.."
"I know.. But I was missing them so much." She cries.
Claud feels his heart breaking when he hears her crying.
"I’m afraid they won’t understand if they hear my voice in their heads. Tell them mommy loves them." She says.
He calls the boys and then carries Yuki.
"You see, mommy is always with you. She’s not here now, where you can see, but she’s always around looking after you. She’s saying that she loves you very much." Claud tells them.
The boys understood, and Yuki only heard not understanding quite well. She looks around when she hears the word "mommy" but doesn’t see Astri. Kai rubs his snout on Yuki to calm her down as usual.
"The boys look so grown up." Astri says, watching them.
"Yes. They protect Yuki all the ti." Claud says in his mind.
Astri watches them for so more ti.
"I need to talk to you. Is there a way for us all to talk? It’s important." She asks Claud.
"I don’t think that’s possible. It would be possible only if you or I widened our minds in this whole extension and it would be very hard to do."
"All right. I’ll get in contact with Zin, Cyprian and Beau separately then." She says.
"Is there a problem? Are you all right?"
"No problem. It’s just sothing that I need to do, but I want to share it with you first. I don’t want any fight and I don’t want to hide anything from you."
Claud is happy to know that she’s thinking about them, but he’s also worried about what she might say. Did she already have another vision and she has to go sowhere again?
"At night, after you put the cubs to sleep, call everyone and get in touch with ." She says.
"Right. You should be careful over there." He sighs, feeling like there’s a hole in his heart. "I miss you so much.. I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you. I should have done more to protect you, even if that ans using others." He was carrying guilt inside of him after what happened.
"No, my love. Don’t say that. It’s not your fault. I would never forgive you if you sacrificed innocent people to save . Don’t let your heart and soul be corrupted by guilt. There’s nothing to be blad for. This happened for a reason. I’ll explain it to you tonight."
He nods, sighing relieved after hearing that she doesn’t bla him or anyone.
"All right."
"I love you. Don’t ever forget that."
"I love you more. Much more."
"No way. I love you more."
He chuckles, it’s so good to feel her usual behavior.
"Talk to you all at night." She says, happy to see his smile.
"I’ll get in touch with you so you don’t get tired."
"Sure. Tell the others I miss them and I love them."
—-
Now she’s traveling in the sky, until she finds two dragons flying. She would recognize that black dragon easily even if he wasn’t in beast form. She flies next to him, watching Beau and Zin sit on him. She can feel their gloomy energies and anxious faces.
"What’s with these long faces, my loves?" She asks, taking them by surprise.
"ASTRI?!"
"It’s , my loves. I miss you so much that I couldn’t wait."
"Oh, Astri!" They say emotional.
Cyprian lands and shifts to his human form. Galion and the other two guards land and wait for them to talk to their spouse. Between all her spouses, those three might be strong but they’re the ones that most hold on her emotionally. Especially Zin, who was raised to be hated and only found love because of her. He couldn’t hold back his tears hearing her voice in his mind but wishing to hug her.
Cyprian and Beau ended up crying too, affected by Zin exposing his heart like that.
"It’s all right..I’m always with you, my loves.. You’re my everything, never forget that." She keeps saying sweet words until they calm down and relax.
"How are you doing over there?" Cyprian asks.
"How are you feeling?" Beau asks.
"And the pregnancy?" Zin asks.
She chuckles with all those questions.
"Everything is fine, loves. I’m healthy and recovering. I have sothing to talk to you too. First of all, Tyr beca my spouse for real now." She tells.
"We imagined you would end up getting together.. I hate him for having you all for himself for so long, though." Zin says.
"We will compensate sohow."
"As long as he’s able to protect you." Beau speaks.
"I think the sa. But we will need a bigger bed when we get back ho. I hate having to touch anyone else besides you." Cyprian says, making the others chuckle.
"Of course.. Now the second thing that I need to talk to you about is a harder subject. When I was with the Monster King, Kangki.. That had a aning and Nature wanted to et him." She says.
They’re in silence for a few seconds, confused.
"Are you saying that it was all planned? You going with him?" Cyprian asks.
"No, it wasn’t planned. None of this was planned. Didn’t you notice that Nature didn’t try to help when he got ?" She asks.
They stay in silence for a few seconds again.
"Kangki is an ancient Monster and we can defeat each other, but we’re not supposed to do that. True balance is not going to happen if we destroy them, or if they destroy us. Everything was created by Nature and all of us have a aning. I’m not saying we should be friends with him, or that he’s not evil. He is, but through , he’s learning his real aning, and with him understanding his aning that will prevent worse things from happening." She explains.
Then she explains to them about balance and even tells them about the Nordic Gods so they can understand even more.
"I understand what you’re saying, but where do you want to get with all this?" Cyprian asks.
"Kangki is not the only Monster King. There are even more powerful evils in this world. While my kind was killed, so evil creatures have lived in this world since it was created. The good thing is that they don’t care about each other. They only think about their own survival and raising their own power, so they don’t beco friends with each other. Kangki can be an ally." She says.
"But he wants you all for himself." Beau speaks.
"He wants my life energy. And I gave it to him. He won’t need my energy for at least so hundreds of years now."
"But.. That doesn’t hurt you?" Zin asks.
"Made very tired, but I’m fine now. I won’t live less just because of this."
"But why did he kill your father then?" Cyprian asks.
"Because he didn’t know this was possible. Like I told you, I’m not saying he’s friendly, I’m just saying I can work with him because he listens to since I was open to him from the beginning. He wanted to have cubs with , but I told him that having would an being my spouse. Even if Monsters don’t beco spouses when they have sex, with it would be different and that would tie him with forever, which made him not sure if he wants cubs with anymore." She explains.
"Is that true? He would be your spouse?" Zin asks.
"Yes, I’m not a good liar and he would notice my lie from miles away if I was lying."
"So, what’s your plan?" Beau asks.
"I’ll talk to him from here. I’ll nurture trust and alliance. This way we will live in peace."
"What if he doesn’t listen to you and simply takes you again? It was very hard for Claud to take you from there." Cyprian says.
"He needs and he wouldn’t kill . Nature is telling to do this and I trust Nature." She speaks.
They sigh worried.
"What did Claud say about this?" Zin asks.
"I haven’t talked to him about this yet. We will talk at night. Lee and Wayde weren’t there with him." She answers.
"I trust you, love. I believe that you wouldn’t do sothing to risk your life. I just worry. I trust you but I don’t trust him." Beau says
" too. Can you contact him when we are with you?" Cyprian asks.
"I don’t want to take too long to contact him or else he won’t trust . Don’t worry. He wouldn’t co to the Great Wall City. His army was affected after facing us. And if my plan works, he won’t do anything." She answers.
".. All right. I trust you. But if Claud says no, my answer will be no too." Zin says.
The others agree.
"All right. I’m happy you trust Claud this much." She chuckles. "I need to go now. I’m getting tired. Be safe on your trip, my loves. I love you."
"I love you. Be safe." They say.
Cyprian and Galion keep on flying after she leaves and they resu their trip.
At night, Astri talks to Tyr, Claud, Lee, and Wayde about the sa subject. They reacted the sa way, but trusting her and Nature. She could have simply done that without telling them, but she talked to them before doing anything and respecting their opinions. For them, that ans the world.
After they say good night to the others, Tyr hugs her on the bed and, when they less imagine, they are kissing and making love.
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