Whoa.....

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 1752

The couple walk up to the castle, and then somebody inside spots them and (and recognizes Princess Astra) and horns are sounded and a impromptu reception is held in the courtyard. Astra's parents throw royal decorum to the side and openly weep as they hug and kiss their daughter. Fred feels a bit uncomfortable until they stop and then Astra, after a bit of hesitation, tells what happened. Fred blinks, because he figures that Astra would at least want to break this news quietely....but he then mentally shrugs because SHE of all people knows her parents best.

Eyebrows goes up as they learn who's children this is and how they came about. None speak until.....

"Let it be known that we welcome the newest addition to the Royal family," the queen announced to the crowd, with a hint in her voice that there BETTER NOT be objections to this. "Lord Fred, we welcome you into our household. Thank you for returning our daughter safe and whole."

The crowds cheer (sounding sincere) and Fred soon finds himself, Astra, and his children in a royal chamber, alone with the king and queen. Fred smiles as he sees that the faces of the royal parents are still warm.

"Frederigo," the king says. "We truelly had believed that our daughter had died in her quest to kill the dragon. We TRUELLY appreciate what you did. We truelly understand the....unusual circumstances that brought us to this point in time. I believe and trust my daughter implicately in this matter, she never was able to tell a lie confincingly. She scratches her nose when she tries to lie."

"Daddy!" Astra groans in embarrassment.

"However, the best thing now is for you two to be wed as soon as possible," the queen says in an understading voice. "While we set what is seemly and unseemly....even we have limits to what we can decree."

Fred suddenly feels like the room is too warm. It isn't a magical attack, it's more like an attack of nerves! While in this country arranged marriages had been done away with along with the traditional restrictions of knighthood being an all male affair (admittedly due to a desperate situation where any able body was needed for a past conflict), Fred understood that the scandal of his sons and daughters were bastards..... The only remedy acceptable was marriage. Though this nation was radically different in it's views where it came to what a woman could and couldn't do compared to the Kingdom, even they acknowledged certain limits.

Maybe somewhere out in the world there were places were a unwed mother could raise her children without ridicule if she chose to remain unwed.....but that was out THERE.

  1. A date is set.....and in the meantime there were babies to name.....would be wives to get to know better......and all that happy stuff.....

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