"Don't be shy, make yourself at home. Actually, we are one family, since you are the favorite of the Queen. I'll take a nap…"
Gedeon undressed and turned on his side, covering himself with a wing.
Waking up in the middle of the night, Denris found his mate was awake, looking at him, and lying very close.
"Can't sleep?" asked the prince, raising his head and moving to the edge of the bed.
"Is something bothering you? Sleep, don't worry about anything. I'm on guard!"
***
The guys stared in shock at the sudden appearance of Avilena with a baby in her arms in their bedroom.
"Oh, my firstborn!" - Gedeon exclaimed, rushing to hug the baby with fiery hair. - "So gorgeous boy! Why didn't you call me to the birth? How could you deprive me of this?"
The young royal tenderly hugged his son to him, kissing carefully his forehead.
"Sorry!" - Avilena fawned, smoothing her disheveled red hair. - "Did not make it! I was on Zaria, so there were plenty of helpers there: your father and the Overlord. They named him Miries."
"Oh, he's so cute," - Gedeon sighed touchingly. - "Emerald eyes, like yours! Gonna leave him to me, Goddess?"
"I have a lot to do. I can't look after him."
She turned with guilty eyes to Denris and said:
"Sorry, prince! I couldn't help you because of personal concerns. I'm very sorry that this happened to you. It is my duty to ensure your safety."
"Nothing! I am fine!" - Denris muttered, looking at the baby curiously. - "Red hair… How unusual!"
"But I have to punish Liorif for his attitude towards the royal person! I just can't leave it like this!"- Avilena exclaimed.
"I have to discipline all vampires!"
"How will you punish him?" - Denris grinned. - "He is a huge mighty mage."
"As you wish on your offended side. You have every right to do so!"
The prince pondered deeply under Gedeon's mocking advice:
"Forbid him to communicate with all the Radiances ones… let him suffer from his desires or humiliate him publicly… tell all that he is a worse lover. It will break his heart. And clipping his wings is the most humiliating punishment, because he won't be able to fly for a long time ..."
"I really don't know how to punish him…" - Denris whispered.
"Ok, then I'll think of something myself," - she giggled and immediately disappeared, leaving the baby to the men.
Gedeon enthusiastically made by magic a crib with a soft bedding and put the baby into it.
"Congratulations on having your first child at such a young age," - Denris said. -"Did you manage to close up the child with the Goddess of Freedom? How did this happen?"
"Ow… it all happened by chance!" - Gedeon waved him off.
"She was my mentor, while I was in a state of confusion in Zaria after prolonged amnesia… well, she saddled me… in general from the boredom with a teenager. Avilena is a quite dissolute person, with whom only she did not date! She's half-breed who won the favor of the Overlord by her bravery and unusual for woman courage. He gave her the incredible forces of restraint anyone when he came to power above all syrinxes… so that she could single-handedly deal with the spells of the vampires and also gave her the ability to teleport. It's so incredible! Huh! Don't you think? Teleport to any place! Only few persons in syrinxes sphere have such ability. No wonder she so devoted to him!"
"Was she his lover?"
"Hardly! Rohen adores his Queen Kamily and someone else... I don't know those persons… Avilena has a terrible temperament and in intimate matters it is better not to attach to her, she will wear out man half to death. Not everyone can handle it. Do not ever try to bond with her!"
"Why was she called the Goddess of Freedom?"
"She's a former human, and she didn't like the fact that the Xantarians kept a lot of women in their harems who gave birth to their kids. She volunteered to free them and Rohen gifted her with magic. But then they forced me to conceive with princesses and soon a bunch more babies will be born..."
"What? You are a bed monster!" - Denris was indignantly amazed. - "How are you going to raise such a bunch?"
"Ha-ha! I was just following the orders of the Overlord. He will find teachers for my kids."
Perplexity froze on the face of Denris, who was trying to understand the purpose of such an experiment.
"Don't look at me like that, I don't know why he needs this," - Gedeon laughed. - "One thing is clear, my sons must be special."
"What special?"
"Love magic I think involves… it's inherited."
"Will they order me the same too?"
"Unlikely in the near future. Unfortunately, you are sterile after the transformation, you do not yet have crystals for conception, so you will serve in the harem. Someday you will have kids. You need to accumulate magic within yourself and then you will become..."
Denris frowned and blurted out:
"I don't want to be a sex toy."
"Ah! No chance to avoid it… The insatiable body of the syrinx will take its toll. Every day, several times with male mages will be the norm for you."
"It sounds terrible. I do not want it!"
Gedeon smiled wryly and added:
"You have to sacrifice something if you want to gain the ability to conceive."
There was a cry of despair. Denris buried his head in the pillow and after this conversation fell into depression for a long time not leaving the room.