Christian’s children…His children were in the same position as him, where family might be after them, and a tradition of many years meant that they had to be slightly stronger than normal and having to travel.
He didn’t know how Matthew was going to travel at that time, as he still looked so innocent and had already been married to some ‘Isabella’…
But it’s what Golden Heirs do…
What else could he offer a child?
In a cold detached way, Christian also thought it useless to give much attention to Madeline as she would not last long.
A female running away from Golden Heirs, he was sure that her end will be not far away. He knew that his daughter had not cultivated very much and was much like a girl should be but if he were to get too close to this daughter of his…Only to lose her in the end…
Madeline took mostly after her mother and Christian had wanted to pamper her a few times, stopping himself in the end purely because he would be sad if he got attached to the little girl who would probably die early in life.
…And this was the biggest reason Christian became detached with Madeline…
But his thoughts stopped here, only having eyes for the one woman that drove him crazy, still to this day!
Yet, even with this unaffectionate way of thinking of his children, Christian didn’t have it in him to completely disregard them. They were, after all, from his woman…
Only when no one is watching, will he watch them from a far…In fact, his children gave him different emotions from what his woman has.
He worried about them, not having any kind of hope for their future. He also…Wanted to change their future but found that he could not. If anything, he felt like the best thing for his children were that they should not have been born at all. They would be safe then…Safe from being hunted and killed…
His strange way of thinking made Sahara frown…
She saw why he thought that way and how he came to that conclusion but…Had he really thought of every single solution!?
It surely didn’t sound like it!
Not only that but did he yet think that since he can’t feel the link between himself and Matthew, that other Golden Heirs couldn’t too!?
If no one says anything about Madeline, and who her father is, she could possibly be just as safe as a normal human, simply because her ‘True Golden Heir’ link did not coincide with the normal ‘Golden Heir’ link…
Through seeing the past of Christian though, and so freshly in her mind, Sahara couldn’t help but feel that humans suck even more to have someone think like this.
Christian’s life led him to feel that his children would have been safer if they weren’t born, yet if he really felt that way a hundred percent, why did he create yet another child!?
Stopping her thoughts, to the strange man’s life, Sahara continued to see Christian’s life through his essence…
…It had also taken quite an amount of time for Christian to figure out that his children aren’t linked to him, obviously, because they aren’t simply ‘Golden Heirs’…
Which may mean that…They could potentially have a normal life…
So…After figuring this out, Christian thought that this was the best thing that he could offer at least three of his children, and that was a life that wasn’t like his…
He was attempting to be a normal family. But to him, it wasn’t easy!
They had to have a home, a place that felt like home and a place that he could keep busy and keep an eye on his family…
Christian didn’t know how to make a home, he’d never felt like he has had one but his lovely Lavender pleaded it from him and so the Golden Haven felt like a good place to attempt to make one…For some strange reason.
Actually, coming here was more like a feeling, then an actual intention. It was almost like he had reason to come here, but he just didn’t know what that was…But it was still better than anything else that he had come up with…And well, if anyone comes for him, to try and kill him, his family do have a place to hide and keep safe for a certain amount of time.
They could not only hide in Golden Haven, but it was also a place to keep him busy…And that was all there was to that decision…
Steven, on the other hand, Christian knows from when Steven had turned sixteen, that he was a Golden Heir though…And not like that of Matthew…
Having to see Steven, when he had turned sixteen, Christian returned to Green Haven, to fulfil his and Lavender’s wishes on fleeing, and he had by then thought to go to Golden Haven.
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Having stayed in Green Haven for a time, because of Matthew and another Golden Heir link that was hanging around, Christian kept on his guard.
He thought to flee out of the Haven, but he didn’t want any harm to come to his woman, so they just stayed around for a while.
A time came then, that a fire was started in the Green Haven palace, and a wife and daughter to the Emperor had ‘burnt’ to death.
Finally, it came to a time that Matthew was out of prison, and they were going to take the chance to run, seeing that the Golden Heir had still not left Green Haven.
What would be the point of staying there if they had not seen this other Golden Heir all this time!?
Christian also felt another Golden Heir come at some stage too and hoped that they were after each other and not himself…Which was another reason to take on this chance!
Yet, he had no idea, and probably would not change his choice if he did know, that this other link that had come, was in fact Steven, one of his own children, who had been on the run and trying to survive…
Nonetheless, it really was the perfect chance to leave for them though. Well, that, and it seemed his beautiful Lavender had conceived yet another child…
But this time, he didn’t run away upon knowing of her pregnancy…No, finally, he realized and accepted that all three of the children…Were most probably his!
*Yes, he means ‘most probably’ his, hence the trust issue between the two…He’s just being a dick!*
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“Sahara?”
Matthew’s voice seemed to bring Sahara back to the present and she looked at him in complaint.
This old man of his was really annoying! She thought.
He was on the run quite a lot, killing his own kin and making his own kin…The only time he felt normal, like the rest of us, was probably because of the woman near her right now, that she hadn’t been introduced to properly yet!
She didn’t know now if it was alright to speak to the ice block as she has been. He was quite formidable after all, being able to survive for so long under his circumstances…
He was cold but again, he probably had a right to be.
Yet, he still could do with some potential upgrade to being a better father…
Frowning…Sahara suddenly wondered if…
True Golden Heirs were apparently not something that comes so easily, why is this man with three of them!
And that was why Sahara frowned, because…It was like this man had to meet this woman and have these three True Golden Heirs…Like fate…It just had to be because of fate to have come into contact with a descended of a long lost true golden heir…There was no other explanation at this moment…
Sahara wondered if not only her fate and Matthew’s were tampered with, but also that of Christians and Lavender’s…Perhaps…Maybe they were Golden Emperor Marcus’s mother and father in their previous life’s?
If that was the case…Does everyone else have a reincarnation as well?
Shaking her head, she looked at Matthew and sighed. She felt like it had already been a long day!
“Then, come, sit and speak with me!”
“Lavender?” Christian’s childish voice and face was directed at the woman, and she just waved a hand at him before taking the little baby out of his arms.
She then was quickly walking away with both Matthew and Steven, seemingly not worried at all about the man being left behind.
Sahara watched as the elder man pouted and humphed once again, watching the three of them disappear into a cave like area.
Watching the man take a moment to just stand there, Sahara then followed after him, when he went back towards where she had first seen him.
He wasn’t much of the talker, as he continued his work, completely ignoring her presence, and Sahara sat down and dangled her legs, as she wondered what she was doing.
Why didn’t she follow Matthew and Steven and her son?
Why was she here?
“Leave!”
Sahara sighed and shook her head, “I’ll make another wall in a minute.”
“Leave!” He turned to her then and looked at her viciously.
Sahara smiled mischievously and teleported to the other side of him…To which he got frightened to, seeing her once again after he turned around, “You!”
Sahara leaned forward and smiled, “Me!”
She saw the man humph once again and frown, as he continued his work.
Standing up straight once again, Sahara walked towards the wall that she had made earlier and touched it.
Remembering buildings being made back on earth, it was so different to here. There were no cranes, as spiritual essence was used. There was no ‘hard hats’ and cement…
She wanted to think of it as weird, because it was different, but…She had been here so long that this planet was the normal one now…It was Earth that was the strange planet, not this one!
Closing her eyes, and again picturing the previous Golden Haven, another wall started to form next to this one and in a few moments, Sahara opened her eyes again and looked around.
“They traded here, markets everywhere! The palace…” Turning to her left, Sahara pointed, “The palace was over there.”
“…How do you know this?” A man’s voice asked.
Turning back to Christian, Sahara let out a breath, “It’s the same as how I know your past of running and hiding, taking in a woman from each haven. The spiritual…”
In just these small seconds, Sahara was taken by the neck and Christian loomed over her, “Who are you!?”
Teleporting out of his hold, Sahara then put a hand over her neck, “I’m your daughter in law! Stop trying to kill me!”
Christian turned when he heard her voice, and frowned, “Bending Space Meditation…”
Sahara nodded and walked up to him, sitting down once again, “I started to learn about it when I was two.”
Seeing this man not want to apologize, Sahara tried to forget that he had his hands around her throat just moments ago.
It’s not like she wanted to let it go but…With this man though, it was just simpler to do that then get nothing if she weren’t to let it go!
Sahara wasn’t too sure on how to go to be a good daughter in law, but she did grow up respecting her elders and well…This one was already doomed from the beginning, it was probably best to treat him as a child to get anything back in return!
She knew this road wasn’t going to be easy! Especially now that she knew how this man’s life went!
“Two. You were cultivating at Two?” Christian asked her.
Sahara nodded, “Yep! You…” She pointed at him with a finger, “You didn’t start until you were ten!”
He glared at her fiercely and Sahara smiled at him, “I have to admit though, you got strong pretty bloody quick!”
Christian narrowed his eyes at her, not saying anything.
Sahara took another breath in and got a bit more comfortable, losing her lady like posture, “I was practically abandoned, but they never thought that not only did I survive, but I stayed within the residence and hid. Believe it or not, my own brother then became my next father!”
Letting out a small laugh, she looked at the father of her husband and shook her head, “That was when I was able to cultivate even better, except I was bullied every now and again by my new sister, whom really was my niece!”
Christian’s lips twitch and Sahara laughed again, “I was then taken in by my grandfather, who really was my father, because I was a cultivator at such a young age!”
Again, Christian’s lips twitched, and Sahara leaned back against some wood, or was it something else?
“You have a strange family.” Christian stated, getting back to work.
“I agree, they are strange! They want me dead, they want me alive. They want to use me and abuse me and confuse me! Ah, such is life!”