Sometimes Melina felt a tinge of jealousy that she hadn't gained any of the powers that her mother had, but she also felt lucky.Sometimes Melina felt a tinge of jealousy that she hadn't gained any of the powers that her mother had, but she also felt lucky. She didn't really want that kind of responsibility because it would prevent her from living how she liked. The prophecy that Zandria had been thinking about earlier was one that Melina was quite familiar with and one she was determined to prevent at all costs. While Melina knew that at some point she would have that child (after all, prophecies cannot be denied) she was going to keep the future at bay for as long as possible. When she engaged in sexual relations with a man she always took a special herb that she had learned about from an herbalist that prevented her from getting pregnant. As Melina continued her work at the loom she decided she wouldn't concern herself with her mother's activities. She would meet with her lover anyway. * * * Zandria de Lac sat in a clearing with the moonlight pouring down on her lovely naked form. She wore only a crystal pendant. Incense smoke swirled up around her as she sat in a mystical circle she had inscribed into the earth. The power grew within her as she summoned it, and then the vision came. She saw a white three tailed comet streak across the starry sky and then the image of a young boy being born in a house somewhere within the kingdom. The name Akar was spoken in a hush from his mother's lips. Then the vision ended. The next day Zandria visited the king and went through the pages of his census for men with the name of Akar, which was not an overly common name, but she did find 20 men and boys living within the kingdom with that name. Then she matched their birthdates with her star charts for the times the three tailed comet passed through the sky. This brought the list down to 3 men. "I guess my daughter will have to sleep with all three of these men. Any one of them could be the father of my prophecied grandson. I can't take a chance and guess," Zandria decided. So Zandria then carefully laid her plans as to how she would get her daughter to sleep with these men. She decided she would put it to her daughter as a gift: three strapping men from the kingdom who would pleasure Melina all at once. (Zandria wasn't going to waste any time now that she had found the right men.) "Tonight you will go to the far side of the lake where a man will meet you and take you to his cottage. |