for technical reasons the third part of orlando's story has been lost, so I will republish it as soon as possible thanks and sorry for the inconvenience ...darianeditor

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THE NEVERENDING STORY......

ARRIVAL IN COS

3rd part

Alika couldn't contain herself, she would finally return to her hometown in her land, who knows if any of her family still lived there, they will remember her, a few years have passed, perhaps too many since she was captured and sold as a slave, she was holding the little Princes Orlando and Darian close to her, she didn't want to think about what would happen in the future yet, of course she wasn't able to face their education and maintenance alone, but she would think about it when they arrived.

The Commander was satisfied with her work in the kitchen, he had earned the cost of the trip, the night before arriving in Cos he called her to his cabin that also served as his office, Alika shy and scared of what the captain could have said to him, knocked timidly on his door and the imperious voice of the Captain told her to come in, he made her sit down, then with an accommodating voice he proposed that she live with him on the ship, to take care of the kitchen and his cabin, he would pay her for her services, and treat her like one of the family, Alika was scared but at the same time happy to have been appreciated for her work, but she told the Captain that she would never abandon the children, she had seen them born and grow, and she would give her life for them.

The Captain looked at her admiring her for what she had said, giving up a safe life with him to fulfill her commitment to the children, he thanked her, took a bag put some silver tarsks in it and wished him to be happy in the future.

They arrived in sight of the archipelago of Cos before noon, Alike dressed the children and gave them something to eat in the kitchen, preparing them for the landing at the pier of the city of Cos, Alika was not born in Cos, but precisely in the village of Degalbi, a farming village not far from the big city, famous for its fine wine that they exported all over the Planet.

She greeted all the crew including the Commander and headed towards the guardhouse, at the end of the large square, the guard on duty, made sure that she was really a free woman and that the children were healthy and accompanied them to the house of the Merchants, where a corpulent man advanced in years welcomed her, she spoke to him about her family and told him about the children who escaped death twice at the hands of the Panthers.

The man remembered his family, but his parents, now destroyed by the sadness of having lost their daughter, were dead, but he remembered his uncle, who had taken over their farm and who often came to the city to sell the products of his work in the fields, called a slave in charge of the merchants' hall and told her to take the young woman with the children to the village where her uncle lived.

When they arrived, the man recognized her immediately, they both burst into tears and he let her in, saying this is your house, here you can live with me who am alone and advanced in years. if you want you can stay to cultivate the land on the farm with me, Alika explained to him about the children, the man said he would think about it and surely find a solution, Alika happily holding the children close to her, took them into the house and placed them in a small room that her uncle used as a warehouse, he would clean and furnish it, and in the evening after eating they went to bed, Alika sobbed with happiness, and hugging the little ones she fell asleep with them.

Lady BB Arliss

After a few days on the farm, one morning Alika loaded the products on a cart and set off towards the city, at that time Cos was in full expansion, they were building houses and palaces, Alika looked in admiration at those new and tall buildings with columns and stairs, she stopped at the market she put her goods on a stall and prepared for the sale, until a beautiful haughty lady with beautiful clothes of a deep green, approached and admiring the beauty of Alika stopped with her, the children were behind the stall playing happily, the woman asked Alika why so young she already had two children, but she kindly told her her story and that of the children, and the need for them to have a future, that they could study, grow up because they were born Princes,

Lady BB Arliss, was the wife of sir Mith Arliss a great builder of the planet, they went around the cities working, he as a Builder and she as a Healer, they had a house in the village of Windermeer, but usually they lived in Finnur Fjiord, took the story of the children to heart and told Alika that he would talk to Mith, if they could find a solution, she already had other children but now grown up, scattered around the Planet, and her big house was always empty, so it was that sir Mith proposed to Alika that they would adopt the children and take them with them to the North and they would educate them and send them to the Campus at the right age, Alika at first thoughtful and worried, told the couple that she would