-Karen-I woke up sometime in the night surrounded by Conor, Joanne and Bart all in the bed with me. I had no energy and I felt weak. I feel horrible… But I’m starving. I want to eat three goats. The whole thing. Hooves and fur. I carefully crawled out of the bed and walked to the door, slipping out into the hall. Clay nodded his head respectfully. “Would you mind to please have a bowl of strawberries and cheese cubes be brought up to me? I’m terribly hungry...” I asked politely. Oh… Strawberries… Those sound so good! I could just eat a bucket of them!“Yes Mistress.” He nodded his head and left for the kitchen quickly.I was starving and felt like I had run through the palace end to end twenty times non-stop. While I waited, I braided my hair over my shoulder trying not to shiver. I’m freezing… Just like with those awful cold spells I get from time to time. I waited patiently thinking about the strawberries and felt my mouth water. Mm… I can't wait to eat some juicy strawberries! I’m
-Conor-“Has anyone seen her eat since the demonstration?” Robert asked them. Bart, Conor and Joanne shook their heads in unison. “Hm. Well…” Robert paused “We are about to see if we can wake her up because I think I know what is going on.” “You do?!” Conor and Joanne asked at the same time. What could it be? Is she sick? Did that Aaron dude hurt her? I’ll stomp him through the ground if he did!Robert nodded and sat down next to Karen who was sleeping peacefully. He pulled the blankets away from her and she groaned in her sleep. Robert checked her pulse on her neck and then felt her forehead. “Her temperature and pulse are fine.” He checked her wrists and then listened to her chest. “No abnormalities that I can hear with her heart or lungs…” He rubbed her entire abdomen gently and then pressed on her lower belly. In an instant Karen had her left hand around his throat and she looked she was going to murder him. Whoa! That’s a scary look! I’ve only seen that once before… “Calm down,
-Karen-I stretched my tired muscles having no idea as to how long I was asleep for. That was the longest nap I have ever had in my life! I sat up and blinked tiredly. I still feel exhausted. How much magic did I actually use? I looked around the room and it was empty. “I was not wearing this nightgown when I was awake yesterday.” I stretched again and then crawled to the edge of the bed. I could hear a sweet magical sound from the armoire room, so I decided to investigate. Oh! That’s such a beautiful sound! What in the world is it?! I opened the door quietly and slipped into the room. Ugh… I feel cold still. I should have brought a blanket with me.Bart and Joanne were doing a fast-paced dance and they looked like they were having a wonderful time. What dance is that? I saw Conor using some kind of weird-shaped box with a stick and that was the sweet sound I had heard. Oh… It’s even more beautiful in this room! I have no idea how to describe that sound… Majestic? Ethereal? No! It’s e
-Karen-I took the pails and went back out to the table where Joanne and I continued feasting. “These are so good Karen! You have such great taste in snacks!” She exclaimed as we ate through more than half of the blackberries and only a quarter of the raspberries. Blackberries are way tastier than raspberries. I felt like I was going to pop I had eaten so much. I sat down just stared at the table feeling very depressed with myself. I ate like a pig again. But I was so hungry! I’m going to gain even more weight. What if Conor thinks I’m getting fat? What if he doesn’t want me anymore? What am I going to do?! I looked down at the ring on my right finger and felt a small bit of reassurance but not much. He did promise he wouldn’t leave me.A hand waiving in front of my face brought me back to reality. Conor was sitting next to me. He took my left hand and kissed it sweetly. “Am I fat?!” I asked him seriously. I just wanted to cry, and I couldn’t figure out why. What is wrong with me? Why
-Karen-I took the pails and went back out to the table where Joanne and I continued feasting. “These are so good Karen! You have such great taste in snacks!” She exclaimed as we ate through more than half of the blackberries and only a quarter of the raspberries. Blackberries are way tastier than raspberries. I felt like I was going to pop I had eaten so much. I sat down just stared at the table feeling very depressed with myself. I ate like a pig again. But I was so hungry! I’m going to gain even more weight. What if Conor thinks I’m getting fat? What if he doesn’t want me anymore? What am I going to do?! I looked down at the ring on my right finger and felt a small bit of reassurance but not much. He did promise he wouldn’t leave me.A hand waiving in front of my face brought me back to reality. Conor was sitting next to me. He took my left hand and kissed it sweetly. “Am I fat?!” I asked him seriously. I just wanted to cry, and I couldn’t figure out why. What is wrong with me? Why
-Karen-The next two days passed by uneventfully which I was happy about. Conor had drills with the soldiers each morning, so Joanne and Bart kept me company. Bart was educating both of us on what to expect with babies. This is going to be a ton of work! Who knew babies needed so much looking after? Well, I guess it makes sense since they can’t do anything ‘cept sleep and cry… And get diaper changes… Bart gave me a cube each day around lunch and it was not the best tasting thing I had eaten but I ate it without causing a scene. Every time I ate one Joanne would laugh at the look on my face. Conor and I spent each night talking about what we wanted to teach this child of ours. This baby was now the focus of most of our conversations. We knew that once our little pumpkin arrived we wouldn’t be sleeping much. Conor said if I wanted, he would hire a wet nurse to help me with the baby so that I could rest as much as possible. I told him I would have to think about it since I did want a fu
-Karen-“I had Roger sedate him for a little bit. I wondered why his food bill went down a fair bit for the last few weeks. Everything adds up now that we have questioned the doctor that Bart has been consulting.” A cruel smile crept on to his face. This just gets worse by the second. “We can’t leave any bruises on her, Michael. Your brother will lose his mind if she gets hurt. Especially since she is carrying his child.” Zachary instructed as he walked over to us. They are going to use me… There’s no mistake about it.“Unfortunately, we don’t have any good mistresses here right now; but we have needs that need to be accommodated. So, if you value your life and that of the baby in your belly, you will submit without a qualm or I will stomp that life out of you with no more effort than it took to execute your former Queen.” He paused a moment and then continued. “However, I’m so pissed off at Conor; I just might have that done anyway.” What?! “He’s been crossing several lines with his
-Bart-“Do you think she and the baby will be alright Bart?” The woman asked casting a glance back to Conor who was asleep on his stomach. She was dressed like a soldier and a short sword hung at her side. She was fairly tall and muscular for a woman. She looked almost identical to Conor and Michael, but her eyes were green, and her dark brown hair was long and wavy down to the middle of her back. “I would hate to see Conor lose his mind over this girl.”“I haven’t been able to examine her yet, Elsie. They just let her go about five minutes ago.” Bart replied as he pressed his stethoscope to Karen’s chest for about a minute. He then moved it down to her belly for another minute. “Well, I can hear the baby’s heartbeat… She doesn’t appear to have any physical injuries that I can see. But I’m fairly certain that she was forced into pleasing your father and his lusty generals…” Bart started doing a limited pelvic exam on Karen to make sure there were no obvious injuries. “She has to have