The action of Zeus pushing Sahara away from him continued for another twenty minutes. He would kick her weakly, and she would try to heal his other wounded foot.

Every now and again, he would let out a sob, he would let out a yell or speak harshly to her…

Sahara never said a word, showing a one-track mind of healing his wounds…Still waiting for him to accept the change and have a want to live!

After she finished, she let out a huff, “Steven!”

“Sahara?”

That was quick…

Yeah…Steven had been watching her…Wondering what the hell she was doing!

Sahara looked at Steven and then back at Zeus, who seemed to be having trouble keeping himself together…He was just about ready to crack!

“Mmm, how about I supply a few pills for his cultivation, and you supply some training in Martial Arts?”

She saw it! Zeus’s face showed some slight hope!

Yes, I was getting through to him!

“You want me to train him?” Steven asked.

She nodded, “Mmm, I wanna take him out of Green Haven, but I can’t do that while he’s this weak. He’ll have to…”

Stopping on purpose, Sahara stared at Zeus…

Will he understand? Will this give him a small goal? Will this help?

The dam finally broke, as he looked at Sahara and then shuddered into a thousand tears.

She bent into him on the wheelchair and hugged him tight…This broken man…This poor, broken man…

Naruto tried to help too, by licking Zeus’s face, but Steven stayed away, having absolutely no idea on what to do.

He didn’t think lowly of the man who was crying, at first he pitied him and understood why he wanted death…

What got to him the most, was Sahara’s unrelenting ways. She was even able to inflict pain, because she was able to heal it, and she seemed to be able to give the man some hope.

Isn’t that what she had done to himself? Helped him?

How had she known how to make him feel better?

Steven, with eyes of a loving brother, stared at Sahara and found himself so thankful to have met her…

Looking back at Zeus…He was sure that he now had another brother, one that may feel like him…Very thankful to have met Sahara…

***

Court had started with the usual proceedings. They talked about the economy and that of the people who still are making a small amount of trouble because of Prince Liam. The emperor also blankly said that the Third Prince will now be attending court, to watch it take place. It wasn’t like he was too young to sit there and see the proceedings, so the Ministers seemed ok with it. This was the first step to making the Third Prince the Crowned Prince. Not only has the Third Prince showed very little presence within the capital, but he is rarely talked of, now it was time to have him be seen and known of!

Through all this, from start to finish, the happiest person seemed to be the Right Minister…He had a jump in his step, whenever he walked, and a huge smile on his face most of the time.

Many of them now knew of the marriage between his daughter and the Second Prince, so they understood why he was like this. The emperor could only sigh and Matthew rolled his eyes, which was a funny, interesting motion that he had seen Sahara do…

But after that, and a look from the Emperor, Matthew finally brought Purple Haven and its Prince into conversation, to the other men in the room.

After a strong silence and then disbelief, Matthew tried to calm them down in time for Prince Seth to enter the court.

Matthew had made the Prince come to the palace, after an hour from when court had started. Now, it was time for them to meet the last royal heir of Purple Haven!

As time went on, through their introductions, Prince Seth was formally invited into Green Haven and was to stay elsewhere inside the palace, with his Princess.

After that, the questions about Purple Haven came and Prince Seth answered as much as he could, hoping to get as much help as he could get. While answering questions, the ministers were finally seeing this as real, that it really was someone from another Haven!

As time moved on, disbelieving faces started to slowly disappear, as they saw that the Emperor and Matthew tried to get their opinions and didn’t like repeating themselves!

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While they were trying to come to terms of wondering if they should help this Prince or not, Princess Sarina had come. She had been summoned as soon as they knew that they were now going to stay inside the palace, and she had come to officially be introduced as well.

Since the Princess came and introductions were complete, the emperor decided to end court and met with the General of Green Haven and a few ministers. Matthew got himself involved as well, as he was really unsure on how they were going to help Purple Haven within two to three months. Even if they got the General to leave this day, with half of the soldiers, they would take at least two months to get there and they would always have to be wary of the beasts…

He couldn’t help but be interested on what the emperor might want to do!

***

After half an hour, Zeus was finally letting out giggles to Naruto’s licks.

Sahara felt like it had been raining for weeks, and the sun had finally come through the clouds hey…Or the opposite, where it was just sunny, all the time, and finally rain came!

…Had he been holding in all those tears, all these years?

She was able to pull back and smile with him. “Zeus, strengthen your legs, take these pills…One at a time…And I will come and pick you up!”

Zeus closed his eyes and nodded.

He couldn’t believe his thoughts. He was so used to closing anything down, anything and everything. Yet, his friend had just broke down all the walls, as though they were nothing!

Years, upon years, of building those walls up and strengthening them…They were…

He had let himself dream, just for a moment. Those pills for cultivation, the teacher for Martial Arts…It was really such a sweet dream!

Could he dare to dream?

To think that he could leave this place and perhaps never come back! This might have been where he resided, but if he could leave…If he could leave these memories behind…Leave this tormenting part of himself here and go elsewhere…It was this that made him want and need for everything else as well. The idea of being away from this courtyard, from this estate and start again…It was a great dream…

He wanted to cry in anger, pain and sorrow…

He wanted to move on! Could he really do it!? He really wanted too! He really wanted to live!

Smiling, Sahara patted Naruto and raised her eyebrows, “How about I let him stay here for a while?”

Zeus didn’t want to ask, nor did he want to say yes or no…As it was, he felt like he had gained a lot, if he asked for too much more, would his world come crumbling down once again?

She nodded, “Either I or Steven will pick him up later, don’t worry if he runs away…And he mostly eats meat. Oh…He’s good in tug and war…”

Sahara took out a rope and threw it over, it was a shame she didn’t have more rope…Then she could make a net…“Hold one end and he pulls the other. It’s a game.”

Zeus was still unable to talk but nodded his acknowledgement in return. At least his eyes were no longer cold and dull, they shined with brilliance and made her sigh in relief…

“Stay.” She pointed at Naruto, who blinked as he looked up at her. He looked at Zeus and then back at her…

“I’ll see you soon, brother.” Sahara said, then touched Steven and teleported to her ‘room’.

“I will help train him once in a while, when his legs are stronger.” Steven said.

Sahara let go of him and nodded happily, “Mmm, thanks. Keep in mind that he’s never done Martial Arts, so give him some time.”

“Of course.” Steven said. “…What are you doing now?”

“I was going to take another pill and see if making that little mountain was worth doing. Oh…The net!” She just remembered.

“…Ah…Perhaps I could look around here then, to see if there is any rope or a net?” Steven asked. Steven seemed to be picking up on her bad habit of stealing…

She stood still in thought for a moment, then touched him and teleported to Talon’s study.

“Sahara!?”

“Father, do you happen to have a large net, or a whole heap of rope? Oh, and I think Zeus can stay in my room when I’m gone. His place is really…” She made a face, expressing her complete unhappiness about Zeus’s courtyard. “So, go and tell him that today!”

Yes, it was an order!

“Sahara, have you come in here…To order me around!?” Talon looked wide eyed at Sahara, his little girl looked like she was rebelling!

“Have you seen his courtyard!? He can just have mine, he needs to know he’s wanted now, I didn’t bring him back from hell, just for him to go back there!”

Talon didn’t respond straight away and after a good minute, he finally said, “Did…Did you really heal him? He is…Better?”

Sahara sighed, “I healed him, but it wouldn’t have meant much if he wasn’t ready emotionally and mentally. Father, you must make sure that you see him at least once a day and I’ll be coming every now and again too!”

“He…Can walk?” Talon asked. How many times has this little girl made the impossible, possible! Is it true! Was she really a Divine Doctor!?

He obviously knew that Zeus wasn’t able to walk or do anything much…Yet now, he can?

“He hasn’t tried yet, and he’s still weak, but I fixed him, so he can walk…” Sahara blinked…Did that make any sense? Oh right!

“Rope, or a net!?”

Talon took a deep breath, he couldn’t get over the last subject fast enough and she pouted at him, then repeated herself.

“…Oh, uh, a rope or net?” Talon asked, trying to catch up to his daughter!

“Yeah, I think I’ve thought of a way to get the three men that are coming here from Purple Haven all back at the same time.”

Her words…Really, Talon couldn’t keep up at all. Zeus being able to walk! He was healed!

It probably was a good idea that Zeus moved into a better courtyard, it just hurt that his little girl’s stuff would disappear…

“Father!”

Looking back at his daughter, who was only going to get married the next day, Talon had the urge to give her a huge hug, he’s going to miss her so much!

“Young Miss! Thirteenth Young Miss, ah, I’ve been looking for you!”

Talon was surprised at the sudden entrance of two others in his own study. It wasn’t like it never happened, because he had now become the next Master of the Rolland Estate, but…They were his niece’s, and they weren’t asking for him…

“Please, please, may we have lunch together!”

Sahara looked at the two girls, that were close to her age, and saw their expectant looks once again.

All she could think was…Why?

Sahara didn’t give them a reply, due to her confusion of them wanting some lunch together all of a sudden…Well, it’s just eating, why so happy?

So instead, they looked at Talon and said, “Second Young Master, please let us have lunch with the Thirteenth Young Miss and the old madam, we want to get to know her better!”

Talon didn’t seem to have a problem with this, as he thought family should know each other…But, when he saw Sahara’s face, he wondered why she looked completely dumbfounded. “Sahara?”

Sahara turned to him and snapped out of it, “Rope? Net?”

Talon finally remembered about this ‘rope and net’ and sighed, “I will get someone to get some today, how much do you need?”

“Heaps, it needs to hold three people inside of it, and extra room for blankets.” She answered.

Talon nodded, “Someone…Get me the steward.”

“Thirteenth Young Miss, it is almost time to eat, come, come and have lunch with us and the old madam!”

Having heard this once again, Talon remembered that the old madam wanted to see Sahara today, “That is a great idea! Sahara, you are to go with your cousins and see the old madam!”

He ordered her, just as she did him moments before, and they shared a strange moment of laughter in their eyes.

“Very well, Father. You get me this rope and I’ll go see the old madam!”

Talon nodded, then waved his hands, stating that they could leave…

The cousins…Took her hands and walked her into a direction and Sahara really didn’t like it…

But…She guessed that she had to see the old madam anyway…And she was hungry…

Sigh…