The World Dragon's Heir - Chapter 726: "Bed Rest"

Chapter 726: “Bed Rest”

Dominic followed Alexis back into the house, and into their room, where he immediately decided that the best option was to sidetrack her from her anger about being told that her body needed bed rest.

“You think that being naked for this conversation is going to help your case?”

“I think that it’s going to help me convince you to get into the bed.”

Alexis smiled, despite her annoyance.

“I’m not an invalid. I’m just pregnant. There is no reason for them to all be treating me like I’m made of glass.”

“You’re a Princess, pregnant with the heir to the Duchy, and everyone is feeling super protective of you. Could you go about almost all of your daily activities? Sure. But would it risk causing complications with the baby?

Apparently the midwife thinks so, and she wants you to start taking things easy, with the little one growing so fast.”

Dominic leaned forward to plant a row of kisses up her neck, and Alexis hummed happily before stepping away.

“You’re getting too good at distracting me. I’m going to have to play harder to get.”

Dominic laughed. “Why would you have to when you’ve got these damned buttons? If I wasn’t on good terms with your seamstress, I would cut them all off with a claw.” Dominic complained as he deftly unbuttoned the back of her dress.

“It’s not even lunchtime yet. Leave my clothes alone.”

“I will have them leave lunch on the side table. Doctors orders, bed rest. Which means I now have a perfectly good excuse to get you out of your clothes.”

Outside the door, Benedict and Colonel Wilkes shared an incredulous glance.

“Should we activate the soundproofing?” Benedict asked.

“Probably. We already know when they want lunch, and that they’re going to be unavailable for the rest of the day.”

Benedict chuckled as he activated the spells on the Ducal suite.

“They’re quite a pair. Are they always like this?”

“No, sometimes it’s worse. But mostly they are being kept too busy to take a day off and just stay in bed. You’re going to have to reschedule some advisor meetings and paperwork for him.

That’s usually the duty of the Royal Guard, as he doesn’t have an assistant.

He’s Governor of two provinces now, and the Duke. So, there is no shortage of paperwork for him to do. Then there are the complaints and business reports. Not a lot of time left in the day for them to spend alone, if you know what I mean.”

“Enough, it seems.

But I have spells for everything that you listed. I can sort paperwork into categories without reading it myself, detect forged and fraudulent documents with reasonable accuracy, and then I just need to prioritize.

The Academy is pretty thorough, and I was a teacher, so I learned a bit of everything.

I’m not as powerful as most of the other instructors are, but now that I’m back here, it’s not going to matter as much.

This world struggles to support higher level magic, and I’ve already got a mage class skill core at level twenty-five. Plus, I’m mixed blood, so even without that I can use magic at a fairly decent level.

It’s been a real blessing, especially with all the strange spells that they wanted me to learn for teaching the trade skill classes.”

Wilkes smiled. “Does that mean you have the essential spells for a Guardsman?”

He held up his canteen and Benedict chuckled. “I can do water, wine, ale, mead and cream gravy.”

The Royal Guard blinked slowly. “There is a spell to make cream gravy?”

“Just add grilled sausage and biscuits. It’s considered an essential travel spell where I come from, since milk doesn’t store well, even in storage spaces. You see, while a storage ring keeps things stable, they will either come out the temperature they went in, or at ambient temperature.

Neither of which are good if you want to use fresh milk for most things. Chilling it is an essential step for making whipped cream and custard.

So, the fresh milk gets chilled for sweets, and the spell is used to make breakfast, so you don’t waste the milk.”

“There is something strange about the logic of your world.”

“Probably, but there are strange things here as well, by my reckoning. I can teach some of these spells to your mages if you keep some on staff. Or, I can create spell gems for the ones who don’t want to memorize them.

We had a mage back home who could memory transfer spells, bringing the learning time down to under an hour, but that’s not a spell that I ever mastered.

I suspect that it might be a racial ability.”

“The Duke recently got the spell to make wine and ale, but he hasn’t had a chance to fill the Manor’s storage. I don’t suppose that your team knows it as well?”

Benedict nodded. “We do. Did you want me to send someone to sanitize the storage barrels and fill them? Typically, it would be house wine and mead. Ale is for Dwarves.”

Wilkes frowned. “You don’t like ale?”

“I’m half elf. I prefer sweet liquors and wines. But it was always the Wavemates tradition to have honey mead here because Dragonberry wine is toxic to humans, but honey mead from bees that pollinated the Dragonberry plants carries a unique flavour but none of the sleeping toxin.”

The Colonel looked intrigued. “If you can replicate that with a spell, I’m certain that both the staff and the guests will appreciate it. Just ask them not to go too high level on the house wine.

It encourages people to drink far more than they really should.”

Benedict whistled, calling one of his team members upstairs.

“Send someone to the basement to sanitize and fill the wine vat, standard house wine at level five. Then fill a few barrels of Dragonberry honey mead. I doubt that the staff here has ever tried it because they probably don’t know that it’s safe to drink.

And I’m not certain if there are beekeepers in town.” He instructed.

“There are beekeepers, but I don’t know if there is a formal brewery for mead. At most, they’re likely making some at the Inn.”

“That’s a shame. I will talk to the Duke tomorrow about expanding the production.”

The guard who had come for the mission frowned.

“Tomorrow? Sir, we have a list of tasks for today.”

“I will take care of scheduling. The Duke and Duchess are indisposed, and are expected to remain indisposed until after dinner. Please inform anyone who needs to know. Also, please ask the kitchen to have lunch sent up at whatever their usual time is.

The Duke and Duchess will be eating in their suite.”