'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 3: The Prophecy

Kay O'ed

Tuesday, 27th September 1442

Both Heather and I had spent a solid three hours in the realm last night and Heather had managed to prepare the stickers for all of the products, including the blushers, eyeshadow, eyeliner, lipstick and makeup basic foundation powder as well.

Instead of 15 images per sheet of sticker paper, Heather had managed to squeeze 18 images. The image was a tad smaller but this does not stop Heather from producing rather eye-catching labels that were filled with vivid and live colours too.

The images were simple and all this could be searched through thousand of selection just through a simple keyword search and all Heather need to do was to get a single image and then add another text heading or maybe an image of fruit to indicate its scent or flavour.

Once she had done a series of 18 images on a single sticker paper, she showed it to me once she had printed a sample copy. Once I told her that it's fine, she hit a 50 printouts for all the types and varieties of all known scents and flavours she could think of based on the notes she had recorded in my journal.

For every sticker page that she had done on the project, she saved it so she would be able to bring it up again to continue printing them once the stickers ran out.

She then collected all the printouts that she had made from the printer and places it next to her as she waited for me to wake up from my nap in my seat. When I heard the notification for some of the porcelain wares, I was a bit startled from my nap and I looked up and saw Heather staring right at me.

"Are you done, darling? If you are, then we should be returning back. Leave the porcelain ware where it should be at this moment. I would be heading back here in 2 days time. Huuaarrgghh... My mind seems to be a little bit heavy right now. Come on dear, let's hold hands and return back to the real world."

That's the last thing I knew and I woke up sprawled on the floor of the study while Heather was preparing breakfast at the settee area with the twins sitting down at the area. I slowly rose up and was feeling stiff after falling asleep on the cold hard ground.

"Hey dear, I thought you would wake up somewhere in the afternoon. You are feeling alright now? You were babbling in your sleep so I dare not awake you but placed some pillow and a blanket instead. Come, join us for breakfast after you wash up."

Heather greeted me as I kissed my twins good morning and gave a kiss to Heather as well and a pinch to her ample buttocks. Heh, could never get too frisky enough in the mornings, don't you think so?

I had never felt so mentally tired before...! I yawned as I washed myself up, I yawned some more at the settee area and I yawned again when Heather had sorted all the stickers according to their categories.

Damn... I was literally yawning myself in front of everyone and there's a presentation before 7 in the evening at the Macleod Coliseum later on.

I checked the time and found that it was already after 7 in the morning and another 12 hours later I would be addressing the whole community of the achievements that the adventurers had performed towards the betterment of this town.

"Just hope that there won't be any interference later today, dear. Could I rest some more after this and wake up again before lunchtime? My mental is soooo tired that it seemed to sap the energy off my body as well. Phew...! Going to the realm sure is tiring."

I lamented to Heather since I was doing double efforts since I was piggybacking Heather with me, everyone, we enter the realm.

If I enter alone, it would be considered as a single trip, then piggybacking someone would be considered as two trips instead of one. So the other night we had entered the realm exactly 6 times...!

"It's alright dear, you can have your rest after this. Last night I had given Michelle and Gwen the medals to be given to the Adventurers so they would be preparing the podium now as we speak."

"Take as much rest as possible and you enter the realm alone if possible, tomorrow, to clear all the crates of porcelain ware in the realm, would that be alright?"

" I will enter the realm with you if I find that there's a need. Other than that you can do the prints yourself, right?"

Heather knew that piggybacking her into my realm the other night was rather a taxing as I could feel some sort of strain or pressure every time.

Right now the porcelain wares are ready, the stickers are ready and all it needs to do was to let Molly and her team paste the sticker labels and store them in the necessary open crates in the holding area.

Once the products are ready to be produced, the crates would be taken out and be placed in the respective factories and production lines.

In this way, Molly and her team of workers could be redeployed elsewhere to gain more experience.

Once they had gained the necessary experience, Molly and her team would be line leaders while Molly would be around to supervise and at the same time assist Alicia to make those fine wares for distillation et cetera.

I walked over and kissed my twins and told them to be good since Daddy was feeling under the weather today and wanted to have some rest to recover back some rest today.

The twins looked rather worried and Heather asked what I would like to have for lunch and dinner and I replied that it had been some time since I've tasted the sweet and sour deep-fried pork chops with cucumber, tomatoes, pineapples with shallots and garlic as garnishing.

"Alright dear, I will make the one-dish meal today consisting of deep-fried breaded pork chops made into sweet and sour today, all right? I will get the domain helpers to mind the children and head to the grocery store to get the things we need. Rest well, my dear. Hope you would be able to recover after your second round of sleep."

Heather pushed me away from the settee and towards the bedroom where the domain helpers had already cleared away the pillows and sheets from the study room back to the bedroom.

The domain helpers can't help noticing the stack of sticker labels and from a single glance, they knew that somehow we had spent the night burning the midnight oil. I was seriously knocked out before dinner time and had slept through the whole night till the following day.

"Alright dear, I would be off to meditate and practise my breathing exercises to regain my strength for the mind. Love you, dear... Muah Muah Muah...!!"

I literally crawled to the bedroom and plopped down on the soft mattress and was soon snoring once again as my mind drifted off to a dreamless state. We would not want me to enter my meditative state by mistake and enter the realm, would we?

Heather had the twins minded by the domain helpers as she went to the grocery market to purchase some pork chops and some breading mix with all the necessary ingredients to make the sweet and sour gravy.

She also bought a few lemons that would be squeezed to give the extra sourness to the gravy. Red, green and yellow bell peppers were added to it to add colour and flavour to the rest of the vegetables.

Soon, with the groceries, she went to the outdoor kitchen area to prepare the pork chops while the kitchen helpers helped to chop up all the vegetables after washing them. The chops, after being washed, breaded and deep-fried were set aside before she made the heavy gravy ready.

The heavy gravy was ready in 15 minutes and then it was poured over the deep-fried breaded pork chops and served on a fairly large serving platter.

The children were hungry since they had not given any kinds of morning snack so Heather decided to push the timing for lunch earlier than usual. She went over to the bedroom and found me still sprawled on the bed like a beached starfish.

"Hey dear, you feel much better now? Hope you had your power nap while I was busy preparing lunch. It is already half past 10 and close to eleven."

"Lunch is ready and served, do you want to eat together since our children are all waiting to have lunch together today."

I fluttered my eyelids open slightly and groaned because of the weariness I felt that coursed through my brain that controls all my motor skills.

"Help me up dear, and get me out of these clothes. I'm going to conjure up my Psi Energy orbs and put them inside the vat in the bathroom. My goodness me, I had never felt so exhausted before in my whole life. The strain on my mind really knocks me out...! "

I requested as Heather helped to pull my clothes up as I staggered to the bathroom in my knickers. I hovered near the vat that had been imbued with heating pebbles by Priestess Farah to keep the water at a constant temperature as I rubbed my hands and closed my eyes.

I could feel myself swaying and I knew that even conjuring the Psi Energy orbs also could spell trouble for myself.

Nevertheless, I forced myself to conjure up a set of 4 Psi Energy orbs and dropped them into the water. It was bright bluish in colour and when it hits the water, it disintegrated and seemed to slightly sizzle.

There was a small stool inside the bathroom where I sat and I began to scoop the water from the vat. The moment the water hit my head and face, it throbbed and I could almost feel the heat that was coming off from the top of my head. The water hit the rest of my body and I quickly scooped the water and splash it all over to thoroughly wet it.

I took a little bit of hair shampoo and lather it on my hair as I took my body soap and slowly lather it around my body as well. The moment the water had hit my body earlier, I could felt tingling sensations all over the body and its a bit prickly at the same time, yet soothing and felt like many tiny hands were massaging my body.

My body felt slightly rejuvenated as I remembered how Ceres had mentioned to me to drop these Psi energy orbs into the distillers so that the healing and rejuvenating feeling could be shared with everyone who purchases our product.

I also remembered the wild young man who was screaming and singing in the shower while my former self was sitting at the porch of the house. The young man told my former self how he felt when he used the body soap that was imbued with Psi energy during the shower even...!

I thought to myself and concluded that the only products that would be used to imbue these Psi energy orbs would be the Hair shampoo, body soap and the facial and body scrub. It would be great to share this wonderful little nifty miracles to the rest of the consumers, don't you think so?

I added more hair shampoo because we all had long hair and it would be nice to have it covered with this fine bubbles. Before this, we seldom wash our hair because we have to use lye and hot water to wash the sebum off the hair.

The ritual of hair washing was like a huge process just to get it wet and clean...!

Now with these fine hair shampoos, we could wash our hair nearly every day except when it's wintertime...!

"Wooooo....! I feel much better already. Goodness me, luckily I remembered how to use the Psi Energy orbs or else I would feel dreadful for the entire whole day...!" I called out from the bathroom and Heather peeked inside after she opened the bathroom door slightly.

"That's good to hear, darling. You do have some colour on your face. Besides, don't you feel cold to wet your whole hair like this in mid-autumn?"

"Not really dear, in fact, if not for Farah I think we only shower during summertime. Hahaha. Let me rinse my hair off and then towel it down and we can have our lunch together."

I replied but Heather held the scoop in her hand and she was the one who poured water over my body to wash off the bubbles and on my hair to wash away the suds as well.

It didn't take long for me to complete my shower even though it is like a buffalo taking a dip in the river without much scrubbing at all...!

Heather got me a towel and after I had done, I removed my knickers and wrapped the towel around my waist as I tiptoed to the bathroom where a set of fresh clothes were ready including my armour that was placed at the corner of the bed as well.

"Hmm, shall I wear my armour today? But wait, there's an award ceremony later on and I think I would be best wearing this normal clothes first before we change to our best clothes to do the presentation of the medals to the adventurers." I thought to myself as I was about to reach for my set of armour.

So instead, I towelled down myself properly so my wet hair would not be dripping water everywhere as I changed onto my day clothes, wore a few of the accessories on me and then went down to the dining area of the conference hall where our twins were waiting for me.

The moment they saw me walking down the stairwell, they squealed in delight and waved at me to come over and gave them a big hug since they had held their arms out to me.

I laughed as I hugged my children and kissed them on the foreheads and cheek as they all squirmed about in their highchairs since they could feel how cold my hands were.

I saw the sweet and sour gravy that had several huge pieces of deep-fried breaded pork chops and I can't help smack my lips together. "My dear children, you must be hungry, yes? Come, let's eat now. Mummy would feed Daddy while I will feed the both of you right?"

The children clapped their hands eagerly as I took a plate, scooped some rice, placed a whole piece of deep-fried breaded pork chop on it and then scooped some of the diced carrots, cucumber, pineapple, red, green and yellow ball peppers and I slowly tore off bits of the pork chop and handed the children to hold and eat themselves.

Of course, I made sure the bits of pork chop would be easily bitten and chewed by the children as I saw them nibbled on the pieces of meat while they hold them in a pincer kind of manner.

Heather does not have the knack of feeding an adult like me with her fingers so she used a spoon instead to scoop the rice with some of the vegetables and tore off some meat before she stuffed them into my mouth. She may end up with bitten fingers if she used her fingers to feed me instead.

My appetite was piqued when I was spoon-fed by Heather and the children watched me as I was having too much food in my mouth that I almost looked like a hamster...!

The children laughed as they patted my face with their dainty hands as they too followed the way I 'stored' my food inside the mouth. The lunch today was good and I had more than enough rice and dishes today.

The children too had their fill and had washed down their lunch with some warm banana flavoured milk before they nodded off in sleepiness. The domain helpers helped to bring the children to their beds after their faces and hands were cleaned up.

"You feel much better now, dear? You can only enter the realm tomorrow evening okay? You really need your rest and recover as soon as possible."

Heather pressed her hands into me as she leaned across my chest as she was quite worried but she doesn't really verbally say it.

Through her actions only was she able to show how she really felt. I looked across the mantlepiece where our crowns were and saw that all the stickers that she had done were stacked and segregated nicely so each stack would be seen as a single product and not jumbled up as a single stack.

I smiled as I praised her for being so systematic in her work as the domain helpers also can't help but admire the printouts and touch the lifelike vivid images that had been printed on the sticker papers.