@VaIorousCharm + her, and she nodded, defeated and already so very tired when the real fight had not even started yet.
She looked to the midwife then and she nodded too.
She was as ready.
As she ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ be, anyway.
@VaIorousCharm At the words ๐๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ, Aurora felt compelled to obey her aunt as she had when she'd been but a little girl living in the woods.
She held the fairy's gaze, searching in her eyes for something other than the truth.
A wave of pain went through +
@VaIorousCharm + was failing to find her courage now, only dressed in her shift, lying in her bed, weak, and sweating like there was no tomorrow.
She was thinking, trying to regain a bit of calmness in her soul. Her head leaned against the intricately decorated headboard, and she closed her +
@VaIorousCharm + painfully. Then she glanced at all her aunts and her mother, asking the question again.
โ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ?โ
@VaIorousCharm + her curse be lifted? For her to bare a child, did her husband have to die? A soul for a soul?
Perhaps that was why sheโd been delaying this birth.
Sheโd refused to push, no matter the insistence of the midwife.
โWhat amโฆ Merryweather what am I going to do?โ she let out +
@VaIorousCharm + proper for him to stay.
While the blonde tried to hold herself steady and breathed as instructed by her mother, maids went ahead and helped to remove some of the layers of clothing she had on her. A moment later? She was in nothing but her shift, and was helping onto the bed.
@VaIorousCharm + ahead, by the time Aurora was gently set down to her feet again, a lot of people had gathered in the princess' bedchambers, with dry cloths, hot and cold water basins. The knight bowed to the royals and exited the room promptly after that, knowing it was absolutely not +
@VaIorousCharm + addressing the Queen.
"Your Majesty... If I may... with your permission, and the princess'... I can carry Her Highness to her chambers."
@VaIorousCharm + couldn't move.
There was a moment of silence, safe for Aurora's sobs, as the Queen tried to come up with a solution.
Luckily, a watchful knight, who'd been hesitant too, stepped in, approaching the royals. He knelt down on one knee and bent his head downward, first +