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Queen Consort Of The Holy Land Chapter 8

By the time Sahara returns to the palace it's around late afternoon to early evening. The majority of the Court is getting ready to dine while she is heading to the royal apartments where she knew her husband would be. On the way there Sahara runs into her nephew, named after his dear uncle. He was running away from his tutor, the man chasing him so the lesson can continue. The young prince has other plans.

So focused is he on how far the tutor is away from him Baldwin 5th doesn't see Sahara until he tries to rush around the corner.

"Gotcha," said Sahara, wrapping her arms around the boy's middle and tickling him in the stomach, causing him to shriek. "Baldwin, you know better than to try and skip your lessons. Go back right now or else you'll be late for dinner afterward."

"Yes, Aunt Sahara," said Baldwin 5th, grinning.

The tutor then takes him away.

Meanwhile, Sahara makes the rest of the way to the royal chambers.

There Sahara finds her husband alone undertaking a bath, doing his best to relax and relieve his aching body in the warm water. Sahara doesn't join him because of his fears of her getting infected with leprosy, but he does allow her to gently wash his upper body. Her husband's deformities don't phase her.

"How was the delivery," inquired Baldwin 4th.

"Very good actually. The happy couple now have a beautiful new addition to their family. It was a difficult one this time. The baby was determined to cause problems coming into this world," said Sahara, softly.

"I figured. You were gone longer than usual," reasoned Baldwin 4th.

"By the way, I think I spotted Godfrey's heir on the way back. He was carrying the sword on his back," said Sahara, scrubbing at his shoulders with a soft cloth.

"So Balian, the son of Godfrey has arrived at last," mused Baldwin 4th, thoughtfully. "Good. We will let him rest and settle for the day and tomorrow we will summon him to the palace. I would like to speak to this man."

"As you wish, My Dear," said Sahara, pausing and releasing a light his as the baby inside her own stomach shifted and presses a small foot against her ribcage.

"What's wrong," said Baldwin the 4th, alarmed.

"Nothing. It's just the baby fussing. We've been pretty active today," reassured Sahara, smiling.

"You need to rest more," said Baldwin 4th, concerned.

"Not to worry, My King. This child will be born healthy and Jerusalem will be safe along with the son I carry for you. I promise you that," said Sahara with conviction.

Authors Note:

Heads up everyone there's someone on fanfiction you need to seriously watch out for. Early a couple of days ago after I woke up I was checking my email and I saw I had a new guest review on my A Dog's Purpose Is Strange Magic 2 sequel. I took a look at it and got a very big shock. Some random person I've never spoken to before on here or anywhere else in my life was basically threatening me. Intimidating and practically ordering me to write a threatening letter to someone on their behalf, telling to stay off of for life or else they and everyone else close to them would be killed, disgustingly telling them to kill themselves. And at the bottom of the message this crazy person wasn't done. Warning me that if I don't send the letter then they would kill me and for confirmation to email them to make absolutely sure I complied with their demands. Of course I did nothing of the sort. Instead of doing what they wanted I reported them to the website, sent copies of this deplorable guest review message to police officer cousins of mine so they could have it on file, and I went to a nearby police station and reported it.

When I spoke to the police officers and they checked everything on the message they saw, that while the address and names of business were accurate the people and their names were not. They agree it was more than likely a scam because of the email address on the bottom in order to perhaps get access to personal information or potentially hack my computer. Despite that I'm still very happy they took it seriously as I showed and told them everything. All the same I'm still very happy that I brought this to the attention of law enforcement. Even though the entire thing might be fake I'm still very happy to have brought this to the attention of those who can do something about it if it was legit in someway. This may have been a scam, but it's obvious these people are beyond irresponsible if they try to goad people into sending death threats to random strangers just to get access to info.

Be that as it may if this does unfortunately happen to you do not send any messages to the email addresses they put down and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you bring the message to the authorities immediately whether it is legit or not.

Because it's a guest review it might not be visible for a couple of days as it loads if it is sent to you. But when it does you should definitely pressing the report abuse button and send it to the email that leads to the support staff that is available.

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I hope you all like this one! I certainly did while writing it for your vast enjoyment! ;D

For those of you just starting out with my stuff there are other works on my profile that may catch your interest. I highly recommend you take a look as soon as the opportunity presents itself to you. Who knows, you may be pleasantly surprised by what you discover.

Stay safe everyone. Especially with all of these crazy natural disasters occurring a lot lately due to global warming and climate change everywhere for sure. I swear it's like they're getting worse and worse all the time and it's like officials are simply just ignoring it or pretending it doesn't exist entirely just to go on with their daily lives. Especially those in multi-million dollar companies that rely on certain elements of our planet that we rely on to naturally keep us safe instead of adapting and finding new safer ways to keep in business. There are so many options out there where they can adapt, but they just refuse to see it because all they care about is money. Climate change is altering so much faster than anyone can really keep track of.

So, in light of all this, it is important to live life to the fullest as much as anyone can.

I know I am. ;) See you guys next time.