ZARA..
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When I ran away from home, I thought of every possible outcome. I thought of being captured by blood-sucking creatures, I thought of being captured and posed as a slave in another galaxy where I could not understand their language. I even accommodate the possibility of never returning home but nothing prepared me for this situation of being faced with Patoz. I am scared, my insides are churning and my heart beating faster than usual, there is an unease in his gaze. His eyes made the ground shake, trees were wilding.
Filled with both apprehension, exhaustion and hunger, I held my bulging front with my hands, I would protect my little one from this dangerous man I loved who was staring intently like he could see beyond the layers of clothing I had on. He probably could considering the strange omen associated with him.
A few daiz passed by after the beautiful moments we shared that evening, when the dizziness and continuous irritable feeling in the pits of my belly started, I didn’t need any elder of the arts of herbs to tell me what was happening. I was with a child. I was with Patoz’s child. It’s a dreadful experience in Solara to be with a child outside wedlock but it was even more dreadful if you were with a child of a person like Patoz, who was an outcast even before we actually became an outcast. The probability of his death leaves you almost alone too as you are shunned by the community.
‘You are with child?’ he asks
‘Yes’ I replied looking hin deep in the eye, I was in this situation due to my weak love and just when I began hoping I would find answers to this mysterious situation of why I am with child for this long, I meet the man who could have been my fulfilment
‘That’s unexpected’ he muttered
‘My lord, easy breaths’ the tiny creature says from no where. Had she been listening in to this conversation? ‘My lady, are you alright? You appear shaken’ She asks me
‘Yes, phy thankyou, could I possibly get a grail of water?’
‘Yes my lady’ she curtseys and flew away
‘You do not have to curtsey to me’ I tell her as she flew through the door
‘You see her’ Patoz asked
‘Yes, she is beautiful’
‘I don’t see her’ he simply says and turned away from me, not before I caught the mist in his eyes. I grab unto his hands and looked at him some more. This man still made my heart beat faster, and for the first time since I conceived this child, I felt a flutter, a movement. Filled with excitement, I pressed my face against his chest and cried. I cried for the missing love, I cried for the pain we both have felt while being apart, and I cried even more out of relief that I had a living child inside of me. I have considered the possibility of carrying a lifeless body for such a long time.
‘Are you okay?’ he asks as he soothes my back lovingly. His embrace was warm and sweet. I could feel his heartbeats; steady and in synch with the movement in my abdomen.
‘Are you okay Zara?’ he asks again
‘Yes, I am fine’ I say as I clean the tears from my eyes and awkwardly take one of his hand and place it on my abdomen, watching his expression turn to confusion and awe
‘You are really with child Zara’ he exclaims
‘She is so agile and graceful’ he says again
‘She?’ I ask him
‘Yes, she is happy to meet me. Guess I have a god-daughter now’ he says
‘How do you know that?’
‘I can hear her’ he simply says until it dawned on him what he just said and his mouth hung open and he suddenly removed his hands from my abdomen. ‘I really could hear her’
‘I believe you’ I simply say
‘Thank you. I will get the sleeping place ready and warm for you’ he says as he turn to leave
‘No, I think we need to talk, we have a lot to talk about’ I tell him
‘I assume you were tired considering earlier events, but where are you going all alone this late by the way when you are with child?’ he asks
‘Yes, I am actually tired but we need to talk right now Patoz’
‘Okay, so where is your mate when you are wandering alone in your state?’ he asks again
‘I think you need to listen to me first before any questions, it is easier that way’ I tell him as I narrated everything that have happened since we last saw each other. After a detailed report, I peeked through my eyelashes at the man whom I loved; a man who is a mystery to even himself, a man whom all the answers to my fate lies within
‘So I am responsible for the child growing within you? I am also a creature with wings?’ he asks quietly
‘Yes, I know it’s hard to believe but that is the truth’
‘I believe you’ he simply says
‘I regret my decision of not staying that evening everyday for the past year. Our lives would have been so much different if I trusted you enough’
‘I understand Zara, how could you trust me when I do not even know myself?’ he says as comes closer and held me in his arms slowly.
‘I think I can give you some answers to your situation’ a strange voice boomed.
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