The Seventh Son

Chapter 9

King Jerald stood in his garden, which had once been filled with roses and lilies but was now home to the tombstones of all his dead sons. The tombstones stretched miles away, and engraved on each of them were the names of all their sons.

At first, he was memorizing his son's names, but as the years went on, he began forgetting until they finally decided to use the same names. The firstborn was always to be called Nephius, the second Marcus, the third Daniel, the fourth Lotas, the fifth Miguel, and the sixth Barrick, so as not to forget their names.

Rachel always kept to her room and tried every method of suicide she could think of. Sometimes she could go an entire year without eating, but somehow she could feel full. She had tried doing the most despicable thing of suffocating the babies, drowning them, or throwing them down the castle, but on each occasion, the babies came back to life.

The curse took a toll on her and she was always crying. They tried going into the forest to ask