She could not help but roll and play with him in the mud and as he words came from his mouth and looked to him and leant to him kissing him deeply and passionetly


She has not seen us fall she has seen us rise like the gods them selfs she shows me things that only make me happy its i just dont want the past to be our fall i want to be like this and show every one

she looks to her self laughing


Well maybe with more clothing and less mud but i want to show them that i love you

she looks and serchs his eyes nowing she was wrong to doubt then she looks to the tourque and throws it and smiles to him

That is the past now my king no longer will i frown apoun it be see it as in a lesson to make us stronger

She took his hand and looked to him she was a lucky women the godess had blessed more then enough to find a perferct lover protecter he was everything she had ever dreamed of and now they were gonna be the perfect family

The rest of that evening was private and should not be written for any histories except upon the Hearts of these two young Lovers and between their pledges for life together.

I am so happy too wake with you each morning my lovely Lady Hollie. I thank your Goddess she has allowed you this life with me, and the joy of a child that she will see in time will be the best of both of us. And saying this he pulls from behind him a small cage of woven grass and sticks. Inside are some crickets. A gift to sing you and the baby to sleep.

The days went leisurely but later when they looked back they seemed to have melted like morning dew so fast. The journey down from the high places to the coast. The searchh for a boatman who would take them where they were destined. A vision of a place really. This one given to Shazir while he dreamed. When he had awakened he KNEW it was real...just as he knew it was her place, not his. Though he had only mentioned that to her in the vaguest of terms. He was afraid she would leave him or think him unfaithful if she knew he was intending to lands south of the one he had dreamed for her. This too was in his vision but not how she would recieve it.

The boat had stayed close to the shores for all but one afternoon. Shazir had insisted, for his pregnant wife. He wanted as small a risk as possible for her. They camped each night on the shore line. When they did, Shazir would move in land and look for the scene he had been given.

Their came an evening when they could only find a strand of beach beneath some tall cliffs. The boatmen marked the tide and the waterlines and agreed it was safe. Shazir was having a strange feeling it HAD to be. He told his wife, Lady Hollie about it.

My Love , as he kissed her cheek and held his hand over her womb. I think we have have come near to where my heart says we must go.
And as they made landfall he held her hand with both of his.

I must go up the cliffs here and look but I think this is it. I will return and if it is what we hope for I will find you another way. Our child and your safety must not be risked, no matter how clear my vision. I will stay for breakfast with you and our seaman. The deities know we have taken him far from home forthe small silvers he has been paid.
With that the boat beached and he gently raised her alluring form from the craft. The child within her and the playful splash of the waves had given her a dampened glow of warmth and wetness. Shazir had a brief fond smile to the pivotal day back in the Hot Springs with her.

She was nothing less than perfect for him. She had not even said any complaints during the long seaborne journey. He knew she did kep it to herself. The child had done his part by allowing the rocking waves to keep him calm in her womb. He always did press her kidneys as soon as they stopped on dry and motionless land. as though he felt the confinement of his home inside her. What a mother she would be! He loved her more every day though he never could feel he had more heart already. She found new parts of him to awaken with every touch and word they shared.

Lets have dinner before I climb tonight. And I will sing for you and the child while the stars come out.

And i so happy to be by your side every day my love.And yes the babe i carry will only unite are hearts even more in the path that godess has given us i was blessed to have you and now a babe i am truely in her favour

She smiles as she is given a basket and leans her head in to the basket the softness of the chirp allready sothed her better then boat did but she did not say a word to him on the matter of the boat the child had made her more then sea sick with it but she never said but every time he turned his back she let her self sick over the edge. She saw him looking to her for an answer to the gift but she had lost in her thoughts

Thank you my love i am sure it shall sooth us both on the long nights

That afternoon they had fallen to a small beach she was excusted and heavey with the child the boats men helped her and her husband off the boat and she nodded her head and said a proud thank you to him he had gone so far with them ...maybe when she and her husband settled he could find a new home amoung the land with us.

When he kissed her cheek softly she placed her hand on the kiss and smiles

Then go and look my love i trust your heart

she places her hand over his heart and kisses his nose and looks to his eyes her look was renshuring to him.

Yes i had forgotten about that we need to eat me even more so do we have any food left..

she looked to him she had not yet added to the supplies of food hopeing he had keept them topped up
she smiles not letting it leave her face she loved it him been around every day she could never see her self with a anouther he was an angel sent to earth to protect her

I love you shazir and i trust you ....lets us settle for an hour or two and when i nap u go and see if this is the place were your heart tells us to stay

Dinner was eaten and the 3 relaxed along the pebbeled strands. The crickets and Shazir sang for his love and her unborn baby. HIS baby! He sang for many reasons but mostly for Love and joy.

As the moon rode high above them bright and full , shazir kissed his wife Priestess Nyx.

I Love you. You remember that don't you*laughs affectionately* I wouldn't want Nyx to find out and avenge me for having you so far from the people! But no worries. I feel it in my bones When I return tonight it will be a wonderful place I am going to see!

And with that I began to scale the cliffs before me. Her dreams and mine on my shoulders......and our unborn child!

she rested her sleepy head apoun her shazir and smiled with a happy sigh as the crickets sang.

the moon was high and it light the sand of pepples well and with the kiss of her angel she kissed him back softly

And i love you too silly i have for meany mounths now maybe years and i wont lose you to anything or any one

Once she had gone to sleep he softly covered her and then slid from beneath her. He had not wanted to break their contact where she had rested against him. Though, If he was to finish the climb this evening it must begin now. Gently he lowered her head to the water skin he placed beneath her head. A small comfort he could give her in her often uncomfortable life as a pregnant mother. THE mother for his children.

As his hand slid from beneath her warm cheek he kissed her softly whispering to her..
Ride the waves of tranquil sleep my Love, you vessel of our child. In the morning I am certain we shall celebrate the New Kingdom for you, My Queen, Lady Hollie.

As I went to leave I woke the fisherman and asked him to keep watch. We hadn't seen anyone, but my dream had shown a small population who were native here. We seldom saw anything from the sea except the tasty crabs and urchins. Especially at night. The waters here were dark...murky black dark. Cold as well, as though it was fed with mountains snow or icy springs.
Watch over them friend. They are my life, as your own family is yours. I will release you from this contract with the sunrise I think. Then We shall both cherish our families in the manner they deserve. Tonight, while I'm away...I need you for mine. In our lifetimes you will find....we shall have a kingdom here. In that kingdom you will always find a safehaven for you and your family. As you have watched mine is i am away so shall we watch over yours.......under my Lady Hollie's wise rule.
He simply nodded and smiled patiently, he trusted my words, but was taught by the waves and lifes tides to not be so certain of dreams. But then, he had not had the dream that brought me and my wife here, nor had my Lady Hollie. I held that blessing turned burden myself. And I knew it would be realized before our child was born. A mighty young warrior by the tell of my wife who felt his movements within her every second of her life.

With the thought of our new land I rose and began to scale the cliffs, a task not easy but made slightly so by the blessing of an eastern facing in this cove and the light of a Full moon that the Goddess Nyx herself must have timed our travels to arrive under. By the Dark of the New Moon, my wife's palace would be begun. Dark and beautiful like her hair and eyes.

Almost 5 years...and a blessing of two sons later............


The sole light in the countryside was a single torch aflame.

A torch held by a boy barely 3 years old, leading a father and a blind baby brother.

The father, an Archon. A man some called King. But he is just a man today.
A man who follows the child who leads a funeral procession.



A sad and heartbroke man walks his way to the Palace of Cillicia. Shazir and a small group of priests.
The burden the priests bear....
The Body of Priestess Nyx, Oracle of the Goddess and Queen of Cappadocia.
More than that, she was his greatest spark.

The little torch carried by the awkward steps of their son Aether lit the paths ahead. It also made Charons newborn eyes show their milky color. The child had been marked in this. Her final blessing. He was blind.
A thing the priests all said was a sign. And yet the boy began his life with an otherwise healthy and active body. Shazir knew he would live.

His Mother knew he lived as well. Her spirit seemed to come to all three of the men of her family. They felt her presence as her body was carried in the sarcophagus the Cillician artisans had made with the Cappadocian priests.

The little man Aether stumbked but then stood again with a serious look on his toddler face. He kept telling his dad how he was just showing mommy the way home. So certain that she was just missing from her body and he could help her find it. Such a serious devotion from a child so young.


Shazir could not help but cry with pride as he tucked them both in at night when they stopped.

Then he would go to sleep beside his wife....beside her sarcophagus. When sleep actually came.
Most nights he would sit and watch the stars beside her. Like those earlier days when they had been two refugees on a boat. How a person can miss the simplest pleasures when life gave them its biggest troubles.

Now...now they were going to a celebration in her honor & the honor of the two nations they had helped build. Shazir had to even admit, that he had the easier task from a strong leader before him. She had begun, alone...except for his faith and Love for her.

We are going to a happier place My Love. I know you earned your rest. I only wish i could have kept you here a little while longer. Had kept you just as long as we needed to raise our two boys as we raised these two nations. They will know you. I swear the whole world will remember you!
To that end....in quiet together....Shazir swore his spirit to hers and a few promises of what would be done, as she would have liked.

More steps South....and more steps to the Palace. Their old house.....well it had been burned after the boys were not there to see it.

They would live with their father now. The future was a dark one. One that Aether and Shazir and Charon would set the world on fire ...if they must...to bring into it some light.

For now though...."the Heart of the Flame walked , with his sons.
With his sons.....and one torch aflame to lite the paths.