“Dad.”
Lesha was about to drop a bombshell over breakfast.
“I had another dream about Mom.”
“Another one?”
“Mmm.”
Imdiately, Ishakan lowered his silverware, and Leah did the sa. Lesha had been born with a gift for seeing the future, though his control of those skills was still nonexistent, since he was so young. Usually they appeared in his dreams, and the content was often trivial: approaching visitors, morning weather. But every once in a while, he saw sothing important.
Last ti, it had been a vision of the King of Balkat, who had intended to use a drug on Leah. Lesha’s parents always took his dreams seriously.
Lesha looked down, considering his dream, and then plucked a pogranate off the table.
“It’s very strong.”
“......”
Leah and Ishakan looked at the pogranate. Red fruits were known to be healthful. But Leah rembered the Redblood Fruit. Lesha even went so far as to put the pogranate on Ishakan’s plate.
“Mama should eat this, to be stronger.”
“Of course,” Ishakan said kindly, cutting the fruit apart and spooning the seeds onto Leah’s plate. “Don’t worry, Lesha. I will find it.”
But if he could find it, Leah would already have eaten it long ago. After breakfast, Leah and Ishakan went for a walk.
“What if we can’t find it?” Leah asked. She had wondered if he would bring her more pogranates, to keep his word to Lesha. But Ishakan had interpreted the dream another way.
“The fact that he saw you eat it ans there is a way to get it,” Ishakan replied. To him, the prophetic dream ant his success was assured. Closing his hands on Leah’s waist, he lifted her up, startling her as her feet left the floor. “I must do it, if it is good for you.”
Leah’s cheeks flushed.
“...then I would like it,” she said. Ishakan had taught her to be honest about the things she wanted. posted only on novelutopia. Ishakan embraced her, kissing her, and Leah had to endure his kiss for a long ti.
* * *
The day had co to leave.
Everyone in the royal palace had gathered to bid Leah farewell. Not just the nobles, but even her retired ladies-in-waiting from the Princess Palace. Countess lissa and Baroness Cinael were weeping into their handkerchiefs.
“Anyone would think I was never coming back,” Leah joked.
“Please don’t say that!” Countess lissa exclaid. “I just rembered the last ti...”
When Leah had been sent to the border of Estia, to marry Byun Gyeonbek.
“This ti is different,” Countess lissa said, brightening as she looked at Leah. “I’m glad you’re happy, Your Majesty.”
Silently, Leah hugged her, and of course once she had hugged Countess lissa, everyone else wanted one too. It took a long ti to say goodbye. But after so last farewells with the nobles, they finally set off for the desert.
“Let’s go!” Lesha shouted, and the carriage set off. Ishakan spurred his horse alongside the carriage window.
“If you don’t feel well, tell ,” he said.
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