Crazy happiness plunged him into the bright ecstasy when his son was born. Lariel loudly expressed his emotions, flashing his eyes, seeing small wings on the back of a newborn.
"How cute you are, my baby!"
The look of the kid was so fantastic and Kamily could not believe that such a miracle she could born. It was impossible not to fall in love with such a baby: lilac curls, pink cheeks and huge purple eyes with silvery sparks.
Kamily had not realized before that this tiny baby with wings would be so dear to her. She did not want to leave him and she was ready to stay in Azaren despite her trouble relationship with syrinxes.
Parents took turns holding the baby who did not scream like ordinary kid but quietly purred mindfully observing adults with his bewitching eyes.
After a long meditation Lariel named his son Ekiloren.
"And what does it mean?" - Kamily asked casually.
"Tender love!"
Lariel often fell into such ecstasy that he ran up to Kamily, circled her, picked her up, soared up and flew around the huge hall with a cheerful laugh hugging her. His stormy passion fell upon her every night but she constantly lost consciousness during intimacy and could not remember anything in the morning that happened between them.
Kamily at first tried to feed the baby with breast milk but Lariel forbade offering it to the baby.
"He doesn't need milk, but blood. It contains a lot of mana for his growing up."
His finger was bitten and pearly pink liquid dropped to the tiny mouth of baby, that shocked and terrified Kamily. She couldn't accept that weirdness.
Darien rushed to his son's house despite his protests on the first day of the newborn and admired him for a long time sitting near the cradle.
"Kamily … - he started a conversation with his grandson's mother, who was sitting in a chair away from the huge syrinx. - I'm sorry I had scared you last time. You are no longer human, get used to our oddities. Men will always react this way to you, be prepared for it."
"There is no need for her to communicate with them," - Lariel intervened.
"Then don't brag to your friends that your son was born from a half-blood. No need to freak out guys. They will rush down with envy to seek adventure, and in such a turbulent time, we do not need victims from love quests. Do not share your happiness for good. They would fight for her."
The Archon continued to pay attention to Kamily hinting further at the upcoming close relationship with him but she showed her expression that she was not even going to think about it and changing the topic of conversation.
Often after sitting in the living room for the sake of politeness she was back for the rest in the bedroom.
Lariel did not want to conflict with his father and tried to calm down him without scandals.
"You won't fly back here again if you act like this, - his son hissed at him when Kamily left the living room.
"What are you so worried about? I want friendly relations with our immortal Queen. This is normal behavior for a man."
"I don't want you to pester her!"
"Selfish! She cannot belong only to you because she gave birth to your son."
"Do you want more kids? Or just intimacy?"
"Well, I don't need more children but I would like to taste her mana. It strongly attracts."
"She will get angry if you approach her with kisses again. And I don't want to fall at her feet then and beg for forgiveness. In general she is not a lover of intimacy and often refuses. You don't have a chance."
"Even a libertine like you can't please her properly? Well, you must! I'll be patient when she'd ready for a relationship with me."
Darian was lucky enough to communicate a lot with women half of his lifetime ago, when they were still available for close acquaintance and no one guarded them. The girls passionately fell in love with the winged mages and gave themselves up to the handsome vampires without persuasion. Love flowed over the edge and many half-breeds were then born from mortal women.
Only two of them, whom he especially loved, gave him winged sons. Darien was in wild sadness when women died one by one and for a long time he could not be consoled. Mortals did not differ in longevity anyway and died young because they were carrying children of syrinxes. An alien fetus growing in a woman's body due to its plasma nature destroyed a fragile organism and cut life in half and when mortal men figured it out they locked their daughters and wives under lock and key, armed with pitchforks.
Syrinxes had annoyed people long time with their celestial beauty and the fact that they took away women who were in love with them to madness. Men had began to fiercely defend themselves against the seducers of their wives, ambushing them in the forest, stabbing them with pitchforks and setting immortals to bonfire. Since then, cases of acquaintance with women had became rare and kids voices had disappeared in Azaren.
Darien forbade his precious sons to even think about love affairs. But suddenly Kamily has appeared from somewhere and they both fell in love with her at once. And others will want to get acquainted with the Goddess of Thrive and will fight because of her and her mana teasing him, the Supreme Archon.