Huli opened his eyes with difficulty and looked around the room and said softly
" thank you"
Tatsu approached him and took his pulse
"Don't thank us yet! Even if you were lucky enough to give Kaida a little bit of energy, the consequences for you are huge! It will certainly take two weeks more before you can use your cold and if you do that earlier you will not survive. These attacks will continue for two weeks. Are you sure you don't want your mother to restore your lost energy? "
Huli turned his head and said in a fierce tone
"No, I made that clear to her from the start, I don't want to see her in the coming period and I won't go to my great-grandfather!"
Tatsu shook his head and said in a worried tone
"We of the foxes tribe don't know what it's like to be overwhelmed by heat. We only know cold. The attacks of heat that you receive have the power of the one who you gave your energy. The fact that you survived the first wave of attacks is a miracle. The attacks will now only decrease in strength, but since it is Kaida heat, they will remain strong. Try to keep it up for another two weeks, I am sure that the medicine I have developed is strong enough to restore your energy within a month "
Huli nodded and sat up in his bed. His face had regained a little bit off colour and he looked better. He looked at the clock and saw it was deep in the night. He stood up and got ready to leave his chamber
All three looked at him in surprise. Ronin got up and asked
"Huli where are you going"
He quickly put on his bathrobe and looked back
"I am half an hour late, usually Hiroki wakes up around that time"
Kyro looked at Huli in surprise and said
"But he is staying with kaida"
The moment Kyro had said that it was dead quiet in the chamber and Huli had to make a visible effort not to use his cold.
He wanted to lie down again, but he couldn't resist taking a look, so he left the chamber and left those three behind.
With great strides he walked to the south wing of the palace and kept saying to himself that he was only going because it had now become his rhythm.
The moment he entered the southern wing of the palace, he immediately heard Hiroki's cries.
He walked quickly to the nursery and wanted to walk inside. But when he put his hand on the door knob, he was hesitating whether he should go inside.
He saw Kaida's gaze in his mind and how she had looked at him had given his heart a big blow.
When he began to hear the crying louder, he opened the door and stepped inside. He saw Kaida walking back and forth while she was rocking him. Her hair was in a messy bun and her bathrobe hung loosely over her shoulders.
When she saw him she looked up but ignored him and kept walking back and forth. Huli walked over to her
"NO! Stay there! What kind of mother am I if I can't keep my own child still. He's been crying for half an hour. It started with moaning, then sobbing and now crying. I gave him a clean diaper, I tried to feed him but he didn't want to eat "
Huli looked at Kaida who was in tears and kept walking back and forth in confusion. It hurted him to see her so sad.
"why can't I appease him? I'm his mother, right? "
She walked sadly to Huli and gave Hiroki to Huli. The moment Huli was holding him, he was immediately silent. This caused Kaida to burst into tears. Huli rubbed her head with his free hand
"Don't worry, that's how he was with me in the beginning. He is a bit harder than his brother and sister. It helps if you calm down first. I have noticed that when I am frustrated myself he will cry even worse "
Huli took Kaida's hand and led her to the rocking chair. He gave her a glass of water and when she was a little calmer he gave her Hiroki again.
"now look, he is okay"
Kaida dried her tears and looked at Hiroki who now laid quietly in her arms. Then she casually looked at Huli
"This remains between us, I don't know why I have been so vulnerable since my pregnancy."
Huli nods and sat in the opposite seat
"Normally he gets a bottle now, but you can see if he takes the breast"
Kaida nodded and tried it. It was difficult because at first he did not want to take her nipple but after a few attempts it finally worked and he started drinking.
"What are you doing here and why do you look so weak?"
Huli was surprised that Kaida realized that he felt weaker, but he was not so happy that she asked him why he was there
"Hiroki often wakes up around this time, now I automatically wake up around this time too".
"Oh"
That was the only answer Kaida gave him and then it was quiet again in the nursery until Kaida had finished feeding Hiroki. Huli went to Hiroki's cupboard and took out a bottle.
"This is his special oil, if you rub it in before he goes to sleep, he will sleep longer"
Kaida took the bottle and went to Hiroki's dresser to rub it on. When she did that, she put him in his bed and turned back to Huli.
"I am grateful that you have come, but I want to go to sleep now"
Huli looked at her and felt empty
"Don't you think we should talk?"
Kaida looked into his eyes and was sorry to see him like that, but not only he was in pain
"We have to talk anyway, but at the moment I am too hurt to talk to you. You can come and see or see the children any time, any day, but I will stay in the south wing of the palace"
Huli sighed and walked away.
"I will respect your choice and wait until you are ready to talk"