6.5

She couldn't understand what had happened. There was a sleeping baby

in the crib nearby, but when did she give birth?

She doesn't remember anything at all before giving birth.

Suddenly Kamily came into the room.

"You finally woke up! You've been unconscious for so long," - she came over and sat down next to her, looking at her new grown wings.

"What happened to me?" - Selestra asked in fear.

"You were enchanted by the phantom of Ramies. We couldn't drive him away. He completely took over your mind. But now you are free from him."

"Where is Lariel?" - Despair showed in Selestra's voice.

"He is building a new city far from here. And he took Virens."

"My son! He will not return?" - Selestra cried bitterly.

"Don't know. It's too far to go."

Selestra tried to mentally contact Lariel, but he did not respond.

"He doesn't always answer me either," - Kamily said. - "He has a whole folk

of black winged ones there, men and women. He's busy all the time."

"Women? Where did they come from?"

"They were hiding in the Cave Mountains. Human mortal race with black

wings."

Selestra covered her face with the hands, continuing to sob.

"What will you do with the child?" - Kamily turned to look at the baby,

who woke up and whimpered.

"Don't know. I didn't want him..."

"We named him Faen," - the Queen took him in her arms and rocked baby.

- "I'll give him to Rohen to raise."

"Rohen?"

"Yes, he and I recently had twins, I'll give him a third one."

Kamily left the room with the child and went to Rohen in his bedroom,

where there were cribs.

"The officer's son?" - He lifted his eyebrows in surprise, picking up a cute

baby with big amber eyes. - "I'll give the baby to Ramies."

"How? The fleet is already far from Zaria."

"Doesn't matter for me… I'll put it in his cabin on the spaceship. Let him rejoice!"

***

Ramies bothered by a strange dream in which a child was constantly crying, and he forced himself to wake up. Opening his eyes, he was dumbfounded in surprise: next to him lay his whining son Faen, born by Princess Selestra several months ago at a great distance from here. The officer clapped and pinched himself, believing that he was still sleeping. But nothing changed, the child still lay in front of him and squeaked, desperately kicking his legs and arms. Ramies touched the baby and realized that it was

not a phantom, but a real, living child. But how did he get here?

Ramies took him in his arms and tenderly pressed baby to himself, admiring him. The boy calmed down and opened his amber eyes, carefully examining his father with a sweet smile.

Only super magic is capable of this - instantly transporting a living being over a huge distance. How could Selestra send him such a package?

Ramies held his son in his arms for a long time and could not believe that all this was really happening. If this is really his son, then he does not need to return to Zaria for him.

He began to read the space to see the "records" of who brought his son, but the image inside his head was fuzzy. All that was visible was a dark figure without a face, holding a child in his arms.

Was he really Rohen, the same one, who severely punished him for kidnapping Lariel? Phoenix is so generous that he transferred a child from Zaria to him? Why did he do this?

He heard Palien's order to approach him.

"Ramies, where did you get your child from?" - The Commander asked him angrily.

"Someone brought my son Faen from Zaria to me?"

"What? This is impossible!"

Palien rushed to him and began to touch the baby, not believing his eyes.

"Rohen? How could he move such a distance?"

Ramies shrugged in confusion:

"Apparently, Selestra refused to raise him..."

"It's not that that worries me, but Rohen's incredible abilities. We have to be on our guard, he could appear on our ships at any moment. Demonstrates his strength, that alien!"

"Then he will easily reach Xantari!"

"Oh, Ramies! It scares! Imagine what this Rohen can do while we get to our homeland."

"But I'm still happy that Faen is with me now," - Ramies rejoiced and hugged his son tightly to himself, fearing that he would suddenly disappear.

The news of Rohen's strange prank upset Amirel.

"Why didn't he carry my son?" - He looked enviously at Ramies, who as if glued

to his treasure. - "Didn't you annoy him and raise your foot against his lover

Lariel? I personally didn't do anything bad to him!"

"Now I don't know what to think about the phoenix. I am angry at him and at the same time grateful for such a gift! As if he wants to say..."

Ramies did not finish speaking, frozen in thought.

"... that he is not our enemy at all?" - Amirel suggested.

"His greatness is truly amazing, bro. With my eye I clearly see him as the Lord of a powerful army, surrounded by numerous devoted souls. Indeed, this Lariel is his vassal and he is right to behave this way. I was impudent with him, and his spiritual level exceeds ours by orders of magnitude."

Amirel, widening his eyes, suddenly shushed him:

"Don't even think about telling such heresy to anyone else, otherwise you'll end up in trouble."