children

after my morning tests I checked on my brood in the temple, the succubi had finally given birth to my children, or actually eggs, 178 of them to be exact. you see I knew I didn't have the resources to raise them so, I decided to make them eggs that I could hatch when necessary.

I have a new checklist now. first, a new home. I can't just let my kids grow up in a cave, away from the sun. it would corrupt them, and I refuse to raise my children to be mosters. so I would find a clean pond, one open to the blessings of the sun, and bless it and infuse it with light magi-wait my doimain! that has clean ponds, lots of fruit and probably has loads of light magic too!

and with this thought I opened a portal to my domain and began searching for clear pond.

1 hour and many, many miles of river later

aha! finally, a pond. and it was a great pond, if I do say so myself, it was filled with beautiful white blooming lotuses that glowed slightly under the sun and its bottom was covered with perfect, round pebbles. I reopened the portal by the lake and retrieved my eggs, I then placed them gently, one by one, into the pond and channeled light magic into the pond to bless them.

next order of business, food. I searched for nearby fruit trees and found a grove of pomegranate trees not twenty meters away, and oh boy were these ripe, when I took one it detached from the tree almost immediately, as I held it in my tentacle I felt that it weighed about five pounds and as I shook the fruit it made a sound like a juicy maraca. perfect

third, hatching. I couldn't feed an army yet but I could feed one child. i made my way over to the pond and chose an egg, I then formed a pseudo hand and dug a basin with it, after that I went to the grove and took ten pomegranates and returned to the basin, from there I crushed the pomegranates into the basin, submerged the egg in the velvet-colored juice and whispered a prayer to the goddes of fertility ,and infused the juice with light magic and broke the egg. in actuality none of this was necessary, but I believe that good theatrics always pay off, but in this case they were just for fun.

as the egg broke from it came a strange-looking creature, it was humanoid but was comprised of tentacles and had a pair of beautiful, twisting horns that glowed with light along with a face that writhed and shifted, seemingly trying to find a comfortable shape, a minute later it finally settled on one. seeing this I broke open a pomegranate and began feeding my child the seeds, it seemed to enjoy this offering and cooed happily

as the baby enjoyed its food I felt a warmth in my heart as though the sun was shining on it, and with that warmth I also felt a need to protect my child at all costs, no matter what

huh, are these parental instincts? this might be annoying, but I suppose they'll be useful for raising my children

I dub thee rusan, child of the sun

[r] papa?

first words already? that light magic is strong, or was it my pack bond? either way that's interesting,

I then transformed into my human form and held rusan as I walked through the portal

jesus christ! what are you doing ariel!