3.5

***

Kamily, sitting on the bed in the bedroom, painfully scratched her back until it bled. Her growing wings, in addition to her double pregnancy, gave her neither sleep nor peace. She needed help and called Lariel by telepathy.

"You're kind of tortured," he remarked, sitting down next to her on the bed.

The Queen turned her back to him.

"Here! Look! What a gift from Palien!"

A terrifying sight opened before him - small white feathers covered with dried pearlescent blood protruded chaotically from two whitened islands on the back.

"Are your wings growing?" Lariel was surprised. "I've never seen anything like this! How did Palien do it?"

"In the fiery dimension, you can make any wish, so he made it, and my energy now fulfills his request."

"Well, it's awesome! Who would have thought! But you're somehow not happy," Lariel noticed and put his hands on her back to ease the pain and clean the feathers. "You said before that you want to have the wings."

"I did, but I didn't think it would be so painful to raise them. I can't sleep properly, I keep itching and itching."

"Call me, I'll help relieve the pain," Lariel suggested.

Kamily turned to him and kissed him in gratitude.

"Well, it became easier, thank you! It doesn't hurt so much anymore... Have you experienced fiery love with Selestra?"

"Yes," Lariel answered embarrassedly. "This is bliss! But I realized that you can't practice this often."

"Have you seen Farenia anywhere?" Kamily suddenly asked.

"I saw a white-winged one in the garden," Lariel sighed heavily. "We didn't save her. My friends asked me a couple of days ago who became her chosen one, since she was pregnant, I didn't want to check, and then I saw the two of them, it turned out that she chose him herself. No matter how hard we tried to hide her from these officers, one of them still found her and enchanted her."

"This is Lantas, who has the "all-seeing eye." He had been watching this princess for a long time, waiting for us to bring her to the palace. He liked her very much. He knows everything about her and he didn't need charms to make her fall in love with him. She herself ran out to him when he showed up. Lantas generally knows everything about everyone; if he asks something, it is only out of polite; he already knows the answer. This aristocrat is the son of the Xantarian Rulers, the right hand of Palien and the strongest ancient magician. We couldn't stop him in any way," Kamily said sadly.

"Why does he need her? For a collection? He walked through each colony, communicating with the princesses."

"Oddly enough, everyone, no matter what they are, is looking for love, especially in inexperienced young beings with no memory of the past. It's not so great to be immortal: feelings become dull, experiences lose their sharpness, all pleasures become boring and the heart grows cold. They feel sorry for parting with their magical savings and beautiful eternally youthful bodies; they have no desire to start all over again. Therefore, they are looking for meetings with reborn princesses in order to sip their pure, unclouded love, to feel youth again, to shake off the frozen age-old life. I left my body on Xantari without regrets, I was so tired of everything."

"What about the third princess?" Lariel suddenly asked, becoming serious. "We urgently need to catch her! The officers want to kidnap her!"

"These are insatiable scoundrels! One isn't enough for Lantas, he wanted a second," Kamily was indignant.

"It wasn't Lantas who wanted it, but the four others. Now I am watching them, and they are watching us. We need to be ready as soon as they begin their sortie, we board the shuttle, rush to the settlement and intercept the girl with our royal rights."

"Have you developed an "all-seeing eye" like Lantas? Incredible!" Kamily admired.

"I didn't do anything, it appeared on its own, most likely after the fiery dimension. There all qualities are enhanced and magic enters the body. That's why the elite go there with the princesses, they acquire new abilities."