Lariel noticed Gedeon's happy mood when he found him dreamily resting on the grass in the palace garden, and spoke to him:
"Son, your amorousness worries me. Luanlia's husband is against your relationship. I constantly see that you hanging around her, and you don't know how to hide your thoughts. Please don't get in her way. Don't irritate Adivaris. Everything is not easy for them as it is."
Gedeon looked at Lariel in fear and did not answer.
His father sat down next to him and continued:
"When I was your age, I didn't even know that girls existed, and my soul was torn by inexplicable desires. It seemed to me that I was going crazy and could not cope with this flame burning in my heart. My father didn't say anything about girls, and my brother and I lived for a long time in ignorance that love with creatures other by nature is possible on earth. And so did every parent of Azaren."
"Bu… Dad, now everything is different, and she herself admitted that she feels good with me." Gedeon said plaintively. "Luanlia was the first to hug me, isn't that love on her part? She would have been with me that evening if her husband had not taken her."
"If she was a blackwinged, I wouldn't say anything. But you cannot have a relationship with the princess, even though you are the prince. Luanlia reincarnated, and none of the aristocrats will allow your connection. Women of such rank as her are intended only for the elite and, due to your age, you are not supposed to have close contact with her."
Gedeon, out of resentment, did not want to listen to anything else, jumped up and ran away, headlong. Tears flowed from his eyes: he so hoped that his father would not forbid him to meet with the princess, who was drawn to him.
Every day he stubbornly continued to pursue the beauty, and when she left the palace to walk around the city, he would certainly, as if by chance, catch her eye. He had to hide the thoughts that he was thinking about her, so as not to get scolded by adults.
"Deo, there you are!" Luanlia greeted him joyfully. "And I'm looking for you everywhere."
He, pleased, blossomed from her attention, hastily smoothing his hair tousled by the wind. They walked together, holding hands, and carefreely wandered around the city, struck up conversations with the black-winged people they met, walked through cool parks, kissing for a long in the spreading bushes away from prying eyes.
The townspeople considered them a couple because of the happy faces of the lovers.
"My father forbids me to meet with you. But I love you!" The young man confessed hotly, grabbing her hands.
"I really like you, Deo, and my husband is also against our relationship, even if you were older. I'm so tired of the attention of aristocrats! They all need something from me, even your father is always nearby. The King and Queen are watching me. Everyone educates me, makes me meditate and learn magic. I don't even want to be in the palace, I just want to live and have fun, but like a child, you know?"
"I see!" Gedeon nodded. "What about your husband? Scolds you?"
"He has someone to talk to like an adult, and he left me alone for a while."
Suddenly she saw Ramies walking ahead on the street and hid behind a tree.
"I'm not here!" She whispered to the Gedeon, curling up into a ball. He spread his wings, trying to hide her.
"Silly, I'll find you everywhere, it's impossible to hide from me," the aristocrat laughed, coming closer and looking disapprovingly at the teen.
"Seriously? You and the princess? Well, don't make me laugh, kid! Not your level!"
"My sweetheart, come out! Do you remember what you promised me
recently?" Ramies said in a gentle voice.
She came out of the shadows and muttered displeasedly:
"I don't remember!"
Ramies deftly grabbed her into his arms and pressed her back to him, quietly whispering something in her ear.
Gedeon frowned angrily as he watched this scene. He felt how painful jealousy squeezed his heart.
"Let her go!"
Ramies pretended not to hear the boy.
"I have changed my mind!" The princess suddenly announced to Ramies.
"Why?"
"I have no health for all of you, that's what Lariel said!"
"And I know why he said that," Ramies smiled slyly and again whispered something in her ear.
"What?" Luanlia drawled indignantly. "You're making it up!"
Ramies spread his wings and took off with the princess away from the embarrassed Gedeon, landed with her in the same park and immediately tried to kiss her.
"Hey!" The princess pushed him away. "I don't want to lie unconscious for half a day again."
"I will teach you how to kiss correctly so that an exchange of energies occurs. It's not that difficult. You need to imagine a transparent stream of flame coming from my heart to yours."
Ramies leaned towards her, presenting his lips.
"Start! You can do it! Use your imagination and everything will work out."
There was nowhere to go and the princess had to obey the persistent aristocrat who grabbed her waist. She really felt a hot flow of energy penetrating into her through the kiss, and an unusual new feeling of happiness spreading in different directions from within. A growing bliss overwhelmed her and clouded her mind. It was unknown how much time passed before they let go of each other and stretched out in euphoria on the grass.
"It turned out to be so magical," Luanlia said quietly, looking at the peaceful Ramies lying next to her.
"Well, you see, it's not difficult, but you call us vamps," he said languidly. "This is a type of intimacy that gives pleasure for the whole day, but you need to change your kissing partner so that the thrill of the sensation does not disappear. This is not fornication at all, as you think. An innocent exchange of opposite energies and everyone is happy. A real pleasure every day. We all have such a good time soaring in the skies of love, there is no need to avoid us."
"All of us? Who are you talking about?"
"Syrinxes are residents of the city of Azaren. His Ruler Erin may also come to visit, but he is not such a lover of women as we are, more modest in his desires. The King himself is Lamori. Your husband's brother Palien is an experienced ladies' man. Blackwinged have no right to pester you at all. And Gedeon shouldn't even look at you. Why are you kissing him? This young man is useless in love."