After lunch, we enjoyed the sun out in the palace gardens for the rest of the day. Drake was glad to see his mother looking better than what she had done when she arrived. I had the maids bring out drinks for us all. I was quite tired, but I kept them company. Elijah, Elisa, Drake, Alexander, and Hunter came running over to us, asking, “Daddy, can we go down to the trees and climb them?”
They all spoke at once, at different levels of volume, and different speeds. It made it almost hard to understand what they were saying, but we heard them. Robert waved two guards over, and said, “Yes, you can, but these two guards have to go with you. I want you two to stay with the children until they come down from the trees and come back up to the palace, watch around you and make sure that you have y
