Xien : Secrets part 1

I almost feel sorry for this one because he's in love with me. He's been in love with me for the past few years since I've been their captive. Like the others of his kind he can't speak, well at least anything that I can describe as speaking just a series of screeches. When I first came here they all pretty much looked alike to me, but this one I can tell it's him by the slight differences, the way he looks at me and the tender way we strokes my belly even if it's another's child inside.

I'm not sure how long it's been since I was in the real world. You see time passed differently in the other and now imploded hidden city but this one is stable and I know it's been at least a year since I've been here. I used to count years by pregnancies until Hera clued me in how the other place was different. She would do months of planning here and only a day or two would pass in the real world, before it's destruction a day was almost four months. If I've counted pregnancies this would be about my 37th, so time as it relates to me, has been about 24 years. So far only three of the children have lived to make it out of my womb, the one they call Battle from Posiedon's son Proteus, another from an elemental who I only saw briefly enough to pass out from fright and never see it again, it's father was of the House of Alchemy, the last two live came from the House of Elementals, a girl who looked a year old when she came from my womb. They are to be Posiedon's guard, Battle is the only one fully grown to my knowledge, the monster I haven't seen since the day of it's birth and the girl, I see occasionally running through these halls. Watching her I wonder if the child I never knew I had, the one called Wildflower...I wonder if she had known joy living amongst them or did they just see her as a vessel to create warriors.

You see in my time here I've learned many secrets, some from conversations had in front of me as if I didn't exist, but most from this being who brings me book after book written with magics that allow anyone to understand the contents. I know what I am and more importantly I know what my captors are, perhaps with even a greater understanding than they do themselves. You see I have nothing but time, my job is to do nothing but eat, sleep and mate. Yes the occasional lord or lady may take me out of my cage for their own perverted pleasures but each opportunity out provides me with an opportunity to learn, so I play their game and as long as this one continues to love me and believe I love him he will fetch me more books.

At one time I just wanted to escape but now since learning that I am immortal but can be killed, I am patient. I am patient for my daughters in the outside world, I am patient for my children in this one. I realize I was a weak woman before pretending to be strong, yet I have changed and they do not realize I have become a strong woman pretending to be weak and if I must be their plaything to get my revenge, to protect my daughters from a similar fate and quite possible rid the world of their kind forever, I will play that part to the fullest.

TO BE CONTINUED

YEAH XIEN HAS A PLAN THIS TAKES PLACE PRIOR TO WILDFLOWER ATTEMPTING TO BREAK HER OUT AND AS THE TITLE SUGGEST THE NEXT PART WILL BE SPILLING SOME SECRETS.