Angelica gobbled up the treats with proper manners and asked the puppy knight to join them since he looked pitiful standing. While they ate together.
"Lady I told you, to stay home and rest. So why did you come back. Don't you know being pregnant is stressful."
"Her highness is what!?!" The knight yelled and got up with surprise.
"Sir Zack, I forbid you to speak of this to your King." Flora ordered and saw the knight become completely lost.
"Eh? So your a Queen?" Angelica asked and she finally understood why this child was so powerful inside her womb.
"I guess so." Flora blankly said and looked at the rolling hills that had grass shake when the wind blew by.
"Hey puppy, are you married?" Angelica asked the knight and he looked at the Queen. Flora nodded and he immediately responded.
"No, but I'm engaged."But it was then he noticed that he was called a puppy and glared at the woman who laughed at him.
"Say, do you love your fiancée? Or no?"
"Of course I love her!" He yelled and noticed he was in presence of the Queen and blushed.
"That's good. At least your honest. You will have a blessed marriage." Angelica remarked and then turned to the Queen.
"What is your name? I can't possibly call you Queen every time. You look uncomfortable by the sound of it." Angelica said and then saw the woman smile.
"It's Flora what about you." She said
"Angelica the Witch." She said and saw them both gasp.
"Interesting. Why did you tell me your identity?" Flora asked and glared at Zack for almost pulling out his sword.
"Because I wanted to. Humans run away or curse at me when I tell them my identity. They even have reaction like him." She point at the puppy knight, "So tell me Flora. Why did you come here to see me."
Flora was startled and then thought hard about it. She indeed wanted to come back and so she did but she didn't say anything else and gave the treats to Angelica before carefully sitting down under the tree again.
"Because you say whatever on your mind without holding back. Your words are nothin but the plain and naked truth. That's why I came here." She looked at Angelica's blue eyes and brown short hair.
"I only warned you that it was an dangerous area and told you leave since you are a weak human." Angelica said.
"I am, even though have noble blood running in my and my wind magic is very strong it all became for naught since I can't use it properly without hurting anyone."
Angelica laughed and got up. "Do you want to see something?" Flora looked at her strangely and then got up.
"You have a child in your womb so I'll be careful. Be ready." Angelica gave a enchanting smiled to the both of them, making them stun. It looked like flowers blooming in the field.
"Angelica... your so beautiful when you smile." Flora said randomly before covering her mouth. It came out reflexively but she saw a interesting expression.
Angelica paused and became a bit surprised. Her beautiful face blushed red and then she gave a happy laugh, "Thank you and for that."
Clapping her hands the scenery changed and suddenly they were surrounded but rows of flowers of all kinds. Daisy, sunflowers, gerbera, tulips and even some she had never scene.
Flora looked around with her eyes taking in the scenery and started walking around touching the flowers and then looking at Angelica who sat on the tree again. She was like a lazy cat and she smiled and explained to them.
"I have made the flowers bloom earlier than they were supposed to. Using my magic and mixing it with soil and water that came by air and slowly mixed it. Now these flowers have bloom for you." She explained.
"There so beautiful. But why did you do that?" Enjoying the flowers that colours shined brightly under the light of the sun. She looked at them with wonder and happiness.
Happiness?
She hasn't felt that so for long. Being a Queen was tiring and she had been under so much stress until now.
But this sudden change in life made her happy. She was pregnant and this lovely scene of the flowers that covered the rolling hills forever. She knew Angelica was a strong witch but she planned to keep this secret away from her husband. If he found out their will be a lot of trouble for her and Angelica who had no bad intentions.
"Sir Zack..." she called to her escort knight, he was also amazed by the scene. But quickly snapped out of it when he heard the Queen calling him.
"Your highness..." he looked troubled by this but he already made one promise.
"She is a friend and not a foe. Your not allowed to expose her real identity to anyone. Even the King. This is an order." Flora command and Sir Zack kneeled on the ground and said without hesitation.
"I swear my lady." He promised and he wouldn't break this.
"Angelica. I will be leaving now." Flora hesitantly then asked her, "...can I come here again to meet you?"
Angelica looked at her wogh wide eyes and then smiled. She hung upside down from the tree again and looked face to face at the human Queen. She serious study her face and that went on for another two minutes.
"I'll be here next week." Angelica said and then flipped down to the ground. And looked at the two humans in the vast field.
"I only come here to relax. But I'll be here most of the times." Angelica said and then gave another warning to Flora.
"Take care if yourself and don't hide your pregnancy from the King. Trust me, if you hide it more, the more pain your will feel afterwards." She said and then turned to the vast field of flowers.
"Goodbye human Queen and puppy knight-"
"It's Zack!!!"
"Puppy Knight."
"....." Zack was so mad that his vein was popping from his neck and couldn't even say a word.
"Take them back to where they started." She snapped her fingers and the both of them were gone from the field and ended up where the carriage was.
Zack looked at the Queen and then to the group fo knights who looked dumbfounded by their sudden appearance. "Let's get moving. The Queen is tired." He swiftly order and servants tended to the Queen while he went to the knights on station.
- - - - -
"My Queen. Just where on earth do you think your going to?" Alex looked at his wife who was through to leave the palace.
Sir Zack bowed and tactfully looked at everything but the couple who seemed to about to start a new fight.
"Oh, your majesty?" She smiled, "I was going to the forest for a picnic as I did last week. In the books I've read about childcare, it seems that I should have healthy strolls and walks. It good for the child." She rubbed her stomach and Alex believed his wife's words since she was always in the habit of doing this now and then.
Alex then frowned, "But we have gardens here my Queen. Why would you like to go to the first and stroll there?"
Flora laughed, "I don't know why but when I went there I felt so relaxed and peaceful. So I want to go there again." Flora then gasped, "I should be leaving now the carriage is waiting for me. Goodbye your majesty." And she started walking away leaving her husband in deep thought about something.
Alex watched from the window and saw his wife get in the carriage. He felt that something was strange about his wife but couldn't understand what it was.
He was shocked to hear the doctor come in and report about his wife's pregnancy and he immediately went to see her. It was then he saw such happy smile on her face. The one that was genuinely happy about the baby. Their baby.
But he was also extremely careful and put more guard around her in secret and when she went out.
But he knew something was strange. He looked at the carriage that long disappeared and snapped his fingers. Two knights suddenly popped up in the room.
"Let's go follow the Queen." Alex grabbed his sword and a black cap that he had placed on the side.
He must figure out what is happening.
- - - - -
"Flora. You came again?" And then she looked at the puppy knight and the other knight that came along.
"Puppy knight... you brought a friend? Do you think I will hurt your Queen?" She suddenly appeared I front of the knight making him surprised.
"T-The King ordered it." Zack said and then remembered she called him a puppy once again.
"Hey!! I'm not a puppy!!!" He said and Angelica walked back to the tree and jumped up.
She looked at the quite knight and then back to the puppy knight. They were both strong but weaker than her.
"Flora, did you husband make up with you?" Angelica asked and saw the Queen give her a wry smile.
"I think he doesn't even understand me. So why would he apologize?"
Angelica laughed and looked at her, "You have bad taste in men. The King must be a huge asshole for not getting his wife's woes."
They all looked at her vulgar words with shock but Angelica shrugged it off.