Of course, peace and relief were a luxury that not even princes could easily afford for more than a moment or two: Princess Eyne’s birth was followed by days of celebration-for the court, for the people of the capital and the rest of the kingdom, for the hundreds of kahyalar who served throughout the palace and the government with loyalty and devotion. It was the lamp of the lighthouse above him, at last, after a long, stormy night at sea.
The night of Zeliha’s labors, Kadou prayed fervently in the temple for hours until, finally, the good news arrived with the sudden crack of fireworks above, the shower of colored splendor-and Kadou felt like he could breathe easy for the first time in months. Halfway through his twenty-fifth year, and to his acute relief, Prince Kadou became an uncle.ĭespite Kadou spending the entirety of his sister’s pregnancy in terror and worry, the whole affair ended up being quite as routine as such things could be, but for the fact that the niece in question pushed him one joyous rung further down the line of succession.
0 kommentar(er)
