It had been a full month before Lirian saw his new mother again.
His eyes snapped open when the doors to his room were opened and the empress walked in gracefully with her long golden dress trailing on the floor behind her, the gold suited her bronze skin well.
But Lirian couldn't say that he was a big fan of the golden colour, and this place was filled with too much off it, even his bedding was golden, and despite his cute face he was getting tired of seeing his reflection in every single thing he looked at, he was surprised that his diapers weren't golden, and he was afraid that his clothes and underwear would be gold when he grew up.
Thinking of his diapers, Lirian felt depressed it was so disgraceful that he had to shit himself and he had serious plans of becoming a genius that could walk at two months and be potty trained in three.
He sighed in lament at his new goals that were purely embarrassing as his mother raised him up and kissed his face a dozen times while laughing at his reactions.
"Sorry that I couldn't be with you more, and I'm sorry but we'll have to part ways for another three weeks, but after that you'll be able stay by my side for as long as you like," she went on to grumble about a few things, from it Lirian understood a few things, such as birth being forbidden on the home world as well as all super and advanced worlds.
This meant he had to be smuggled of world.
Taliyah smiled gentle when she felt Lirian's grip on her hand tighten. Even Lirian didn't realise it, from the moment Taliyah started speaking about them separating his little hand seemed to tighten on their own.
"Don't worry little one," she picked him up and held his face just an inch away from hers, "I'll be sure to send one of my personal maids with you, Anya seems to like you a lot and she keeps bragging about how much you've learned from her."
Lirians grip loosened and she was slightly surprised if not for Anya's progress reports she would have been shock, as it turned out Anya wasn't bragging at all.
The child was able to understand her while still so young, and a week ago Anya said that he had started to crawl and earlier on this very day Anya ran to her practically skipping with joy as she said that Lirian was starting to stand on his own and that he even stayed upright for a full five seconds.
The other thing that Taliyah was surprised about was that he never cried for anything, apart from whenever Anya would dress him up. She furrowed her brows as she wondered just what that little vixen maid of hers was doing with her new prince.
She thought of how to discipline that maid of hers, the new prince wasn't her toy, a thought of tying her up and spanking her flashed in Taliyah's head before she buried it. Knowing that little vixen, she would probably enjoy it.
"Mommy heard that you can already crawl, will you show mommy?" she asked and placed him on the floor with an excited look on her face.
If Taliyah wasn't so excited, she might have noticed Lirians red face. He felt so embarrassed he was the greatest god in all of existence and now he was being cheered on by an empress to crawl, for a second, he almost missed his curse. In the past he would always pull the world energy around him to use a technique called forced growth.
Since he was always abandoned it wouldn't raise any suspicion but right now, he was planning on living a proper life so he could experience every stage of his life, when he got bored of crawling around his room Taliyah open her arms and called him back, but before she could pick him up, he grabbed her two hands and stood on his feet while wearing a little smile on his face.
Embarrassing as it was Lirian couldn't deny that he did enjoy the attention, not to mention the faces people make when playing with a child, he wished he had something to record all their funny faces it would make a great record book.
He had to thank his godly constitution for his quick development and from what he could tell it would be a short week before he would be able to walk.
As he looked at Taliyah, he expected to be praised for being able to stand up but on the contrary she looked down cast as she lifted him up into her embrace, with on hand holding him up and the other stroking the back of his head.
"I don't how well you understand me little one," she said pulling him back and looking in his eyes, ", but no walking not until you see me again."
A million thoughts flashed through his head and he seemed to understand what she meant, when a parent raises their child there are a few milestones such as the first time a child rolls, crawls, stands, walks and their first words, and because of his fast development Taliyah missed most of them.
He placed a hand on her face as he looked at her and for the first time, he felt truly unbelievably lucky to have met someone, looking into her deep blue eyes he felt like he was peering into her soul and saw somethings that made a few tears fall from his eyes unconsciously.
'So, you've lost your only children too, and you'll never have another. I suppose that we make quite the pair.' He saw the genuine love that she felt for her children and grief their loss caused her, he didn't think that her grief could compare to his own after all that pain drove him to complete madness even making him commit suicide several times, but there was a resemblance of his own grief.
Taliyah hugged him tightly once she saw the tears roll down his she thought that her telling him not to walk made him sad, and she felt guilty for making such a demand but in the next second her mind was completely blown away.
"...walk…. for…. mommy…only." four words left Lirian mouth causing Taliyah to shiver. The words were broken and Lirian face was buried in her bosom, but she could still make them out.
Lirian knew the effect his words would have they were his first and one of them was mommy, and he said it for Taliyah as much as he did for himself, it was an acknowledgement from him, declaring that she would be his mother, the very first person he would ever acknowledge as his mother and she would be the third person in his life that he would protect with his life.
"Lirian, can you say that again for mommy.", still shocked and barely able to believe that he spoke, Lirian shook his head before burying it in her bosom again and trying to sleep.
The moments that followed made Lirian sure that he wasn't going to get any sleep for a while, because Taliyah dashed in very non-empress way till, she reached Anya's room to tell what happened.
Lirian felt her glare and was already feeling sorry for his little guy, it seemed like Anya didn't like the fact that his first words were for the empress and she would surely be taking it out on him when she baths him dresses him up in the future.
As for the others they only looked on surprised when they heard that Lirian could speak and as for the emperor Albus, Lirian could see a new worry line form on his forehead as he received the news. Lirian did feel a little bad for the emperor, after all he was literally a walking time bomb and his development was insanely fast.
The one thing that he felt redeemed the emperor in his eyes was his love for Taliyah, he wondered what his mother could have done to get the emperor so infatuated with her, because with just a glance he could tell that he was like lovesick puppy when he looked at her, and his mother's reaction to the emperors was no less than the emperors.
It did kind off make sense to Lirian though only a lovesick fool would be willing to risk his entire empire to satisfy his wife.
Well, it seems that this is going to be different kind of life he thought to himself as he went to sleep late in the night.