Olivia And Alexandal: A Case Study

He was well-aware of all the complications Olivia and Alexandal had had with trying to conceive a child. Alexandal was twelve years older than Olivia and he had been married to another woman before she died at the sack of Illyrium. Together for four years, the couple had never been able to conceive. This tribulation had not been an isolated event. For years, the number of pregnancies across the land had been declining. It had become harder and harder for families to grow and multiply. Before Burton had left to inspect the farms, he told Montague that the toxin found in the food supply was making people sick but also causing the infertility crisis. Then Montague remembered the tales his Sensei told about bringing an Angel into
the material world. On the physical plane, they were not conceived from human fathers. An Angel would meet a woman in her dreams to plant his spiritual seed, only to be born from her womb. But according to the angelic writings in GABRIEL’S DIARY, the unfortunate reality was that the mother would usually die soon after childbirth. The energy to birth a being from the higher realms was too much for the human body to withstand. But the conversation that Montague had overheard between the Queen and Gretchen introduced a thought that had never occurred to him. There could be many children roaming the land that had resulted from secret sexual encounters between royals and peasants, or whores, who would grow up unnoticed and unknown. That was what the abducted children from Grale and Mern had in common with those that both Demitri and Bolo were trying to take from Ikarus. They were all bastards. It seemed as though the baby’s soul had waited to grow in the Queen’s belly until Ikarus was safer, in Demitri’s absence. Demitri must have waited for Olivia to get pregnant, but then became impatient when it seemed as if there was no hope for new blood, Montague thought. He