CHAPTER 1

The Kingdom of Hars

From calm the wise are born, however, from storms are born hostile and angry beasts…

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King Cyprian V of Hars, together with Queen Eva Hars, consummated a deep passion, resulting in their most beautiful creation: a strong and healthy boy, the birth lasted almost 30 hours, the queen's body was totally exhausted, her strength was practically zero, the midwives had done an excellent job and as was customary, the King came out with the child in his arms and raised him in front of the crowd, showing them that his heir had been born, a boy, strong, large and deeply beautiful, the crowd sounded in unison in Victory, announcing that in the Kingdom the heir of the calmest Kingdom of the entire region had been born, life was good and along with it, the celebrations in honor of the heir were also good…

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Queen Eva, during childbirth, with great agony and pain, cried and begged any God who would listen to her, In order for this pain to subside and for her son to be born, the midwife who was attending to her had cleared all assistants from the queen's room, as she wanted to preserve her privacy at such a magical moment as giving birth.

King Cyprian V was celebrating outside with the finest wines and delicacies that his heir or heiress was on the way. The satisfaction filled him with pride and his chest swelled with a very satisfying joy. The servants of the Castle had cleaned the walls and all the floors with alcohol and essential oils to keep the air that the infant would take sterile

Life was good, the king was full of health and virility, while the queen was sweating in tears and pain, until the baby's head began to come out, and when the midwife saw this miracle she said to the queen: I know we have a long time in this, but your majesty, I would appreciate it if you could make one last effort, because the baby is coming out, the queen took a breath and pushed and screamed until she was practically hoarse from the force she was exerting, then 15 minutes later, the baby came out completely healthy and along with it came out remains of another fetus, a hand, a foot and hair, the midwife seeing this told her, Lady Eva, the child has been born, but something else came out here, there are remains of another body, probably a demon wanted to devour the child, but the divinity did not allow it and only his hair, a hand and a foot came out, the queen completely exhausted with the infant in her arms said to her: you are forbidden to tell the King about this incident, make sure to cook the placenta for my recovery and along with it, cook that hand and that foot that came out there and don't let anyone see you cook it, I need my son to be strong and that involves all aspects, the midwife said nothing and continued cutting the umbilical cord that unites the mother and child; After this, she took the child in her arms to clean him and noticed a detail, that the child's pelvis was not high and wide like a man's, however, there was the representation of the male genital organs, but his pelvis was oval like a woman's, which was not completely logical, it was true that he was a child, he had the anatomy of a man, but ¿why was his pelvis oval? The midwife did not hesitate to tell Queen Eva, Your Majesty I think something is wrong, the child's pelvis is oval and not high and wide like that of ordinary men, the tired queen said to her: ¿Are you sure?, The midwife said to her, Your Majesty I have spent my whole life helping women give birth, I recognize when it is a man and when it is a woman, I have seen hundreds of pelvises of girls and boys and they are all the same, the man's is high and wide and the woman's is oval, this is an anomaly, it will be best to say that the child was stillborn and kill him before the King leaves and find out about this, also his skin is so white that his veins can be seen, and he is weak because he has not yet cried like children who have just been born would do... the queen answered: you will not kill my son, regardless of whether his pelvis is oval or not, his organ is male, his skin looks like this, because he has never sunbathed and is just taking his first breaths of air, you have to let him adapt to the outside world so that he cries; since inside me there was only a lake of amniotic fluid, he was only used to swimming in my womb, it is obvious that he has not cried, because he is just beginning to differentiate that he is no longer in the water, the midwife told her as you command your majesty, but I cannot continue to postpone the King that the child has been born, this will be a secret that I will take to the grave.

Then the queen repeated to her: you will not speak of what happened today, otherwise you will know my fury and understand why before I got married, all the pirates feared me, the midwife remained silent, took the child in her arms, wrapped him up and gave him a little spank so that the baby's crying would come out and so It was, as soon as King Cyprian V heard the crying he approached the door of the queen's room and when he opened it, the midwife was coming out with the child in her arms... The King imprudently took him in his arms and went out to the balcony, he lifted him into the air while the child was still crying and the whole city erupted in Victory, the pride that the King felt knowing that it was a boy and that he was so beautiful, his crying was thin as music to his ears, then he returned to the queen's room, the midwife had already taken the placenta to prepare it as was customary and the queen was drinking water while some maids cleaned the floor and changed the sheets. Happy, the King said to her: Eva, my sweet Eva, the most rebellious of your tribe and the most beautiful woman who has ever walked the earth, it makes me so happy that you are my queen and the mother of our son, I promise you that he will grow in grace and admiration, I will protect him from all evil, because he is a gift that has grown in your womb because of our unbridled love, the queen could barely smile and said to him: Cyprian, if at any time I stop breathing, do not let our son go through calamities, because above all He is the future King, but before being King he is my son and he is a child, now you have to give him to me, I have to breastfeed him so that his body becomes stronger, the king saw her and said to her: my beloved, as is the custom in my family, all the men and former rulers of this Kingdom have been called Cyprian, so I hope and you understand, that by right I choose the name and we will continue with the tradition: he will be called Cyprian VI, now I will leave you alone so that you can to properly raise our Cyprian VI...