214 Chapter 214 : a magic called science

“Are you sure you’re alright?” Renly asked the nosferatu woman who was struggling to sit up in her bed.

“I’m fine,” Theodora murmured in a tired voice. Using her magic to free Aiden had drained her and weakened her, so much so that she had been bed ridden for almost a week now.

The woman’s arms shivered a little and Renly moved to her side and helped her to maintain her balance. “You’re still weak, you shouldn’t push yourself or you may reopen old wounds.” He slipped into the furs and cradled her against her chest.

Theodora felt a little embarrassed being held like this, Renly was the first man to ever show her any form of care and concern and it made her face flush. She appreciated him a lot even though all of this was new to him as well. She cuddled up against him and clutched his clothes tightly. “Thank you..” Theodora mumbled.

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To her surprise, the man planted a kiss on the top of her head and held her tighter, “you don’t have to thank me, I’m doing this out if my own will.”

As the two were getting cozy in there furs, Aiden peeked into their tent, “I hope I’m not disturbing anything..”

If Theodora had the energy and constitution, she would have moved away from Renly in embarrassment but she was too weak and in pain. She had not yet wrapped her head around the fact that she had gotten over Aiden and was now falling for Renly.

“You are,” Renly responded, “but you’re already here so make yourself at home.”

Theodora eas a little surprised at his Renly had responded, was that jealous she sensed in his voice?

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“Forgive me,” Aiden responded as he settled down on the floor next to the couple. He turned to Theodora who sunk deeper into Renly’s chest feeling a little shy. “How are you feeling? The whole ideal looked like it really took a tow on you, we were all so worried, especially Renly over here.”

Theodora peeked at the nosferatu prince, “thank you for your concern your grace, but I’m doing much better now.”

“She is weak and is still healing,” Renly responded. Yes, that definitely was jealousy lingering on his every word, and she could also sense a hint of protectiveness, it was clear that Renly was very territorial around Aiden but Theodora CPI don’t really blame him. “So if there’s anything you require her to do for you ‘your grace’ I’m afraid I’ll have to decline.”

Aiden raised his eyebrows in amusement, he had to decline? Goodness, the man had definitely grown a pair over the last few weeks. “I am not here to ask anything of her, I’m merely asking about her well being. Besides, I iwe her a debt of gratitude for saving my son.” Renly bowed slightly to the woman on Renly chest. “Thank you Theodora, I owe you so much.”

Aiden then gazed up at Renly, “actually, I came here to speak with you Renly.”

“With me?..”

“It is about your father, there’s some things I need to run by you to insure that what happened a few days ago will not repeat itself.”

Theodora could feel Renly’s muscles tense up beneath her he seemed not to be completely comfortable with the line of questioning he was about to be put through, in fact, Theodora had a few questions of her own. Who was Renly’s father anyway? And how did Aiden know about him.

“What do you wish to know?” Renly responded. The news of the master being his father was something he had not fully come to terms with and it made him feel a certain type of way. All his life he knew that his father was a rich lord who had mercilessly raped his mother till she had him and threw her out into the treats. Was all of that a lie? Or worse off, was the master the rich lord who had been raping his mother and had taken him in out of guilt or pity?

“Everything you can tell me basically, his intentions and anything you can think of,” Aiden spoke, “he did after all mastermind behind the bloodshed that happened not too long ago, and also he spearheaded the great cleansing. We have to take every precaution if we want to ensure something like that never happens again.”

Theodora was shocked to hear that type ‘master’ was actually Renly’s father.

“I never knew he was my father,” Renly responded in a calm collected tone, but Theodora could sense the hint of hurt in his tone. “So I don’t have much to tell you from a son’s perspective.”

Theodora gently squeezed his chest when he noticed that his heart rate was accelerating, Renly tightened his hold on the woman and took a deep breath before continuing to speak. He was surprised at how the small gesture could calm his nerves so quickly.

“Well from the perspective of a mage, he was a very powerful man who earned either the respect or the fear of eighty percent of the human race. He was a brilliant man who used a strange form of forbidden magic..”

Aiden arched his brow skeptically, “strange form of magic?”

“Yes, he would extract serums and potions from plants,” Renly explained, “he would use strange items he would dig from beneath the earth, he had strange ways of using glass and making strange containers out of them...” Renly paused and looked up at Aiden who looked absolutely confused. “I too didn’t understand it all when I was a boy, but he taught me many things. This magic... this.. this sorcery.. it could do so much good but all he used it for was evil. He could make medicines, some we’ve never heard of before that could cure all sorts of sickness, I healed one of our brothers once with a potion I came up with but the master had me locked up for using the skills he taught me for a purpose he did not intend.”

Aiden was intrigued, a human who could harness potions and magic from nature? He turned to Renly, “do you think that maybe he taught you all these things so you can carry out his work?”

Renly froze for a second, Aiden had a point. Back when Renly was younger, the master had never allowed him to learn magic the way the others did, he was always learning under the strict instructions of the master, learning the names of different herbs and plants and what they could do, learning to perform magic without the use of spells.. at first Renly thought it was merely because he was a sickly child and master was making sure he didn’t want him to sustain any injuries or anything of that sort.

But now that Aiden had pointed it out he could put the pieces together. So all this time the master had known Renly was his son and was merely grooming him to become a miniature version of himself! Renly felt both hurt and furious, he could feel his body physically starting to tremble until Theodora sat up and turned to him. She had a look of concern and worry in her eyes, the look he hated to see the most and it calmed him down.

“So I’m assuming whatever it is that your father could do, you can do as well?” Aiden asked the man. “All the experiments that he performed, this so called strange magic.. you can do it all can’t you?”

“I suppose,” Renly responded, “but of course I am not as skilled as he was.”

“But with practice..” Aiden added on, “you could become exactly like him, or maybe even better at it than he was? Is that something we should worry about?”

Renly looked up at Aiden and their eyes met in an intense glare. “Are you insinuating that I could become power hungry and use my skills to try and wipe you all out again?”

“It is merely just a concern,” Aiden pointed out.

“The woman I love is a nosferatu,” Renly declared making Theodora’s eyes circle. “And my children will be part nosferatu as well...”

Theodora was breathless at the man’s words, did he know the implications of the words he was saying?

Aiden creased his eyebrows angrily and pulled Theodora back into his arms. “Why would I be stupid enough to bring harm to one of my own?!”

A small smile tugged up Aiden’s lips as he watched the man hold Theodora, he knew he was not capable of doing anything evil, especially now that he was in love with one of their kind. It would take a while for the others to see how genuine he was true, but they would eventually see the light.

Aiden got to his feet and gave Aiden a nod, “well if you do decide to harness all the knowledge your father left you Renly, please do it to better the lives of people like Theodora and I, we would be eternally grateful to you if you but that mind of yours to good use.”