After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1051

"Did you enjoy your day?" Garan asked, placing chaste kisses all over her. Night time was, apparently, the time for service.

He bathed her himself and he asked her not to move, which was really sweet torture.

He claimed he wanted to give back the gift he got during his birthday. She rolled her eyes, but she enjoyed his service anyway.

After they got off the bath, he helped her get in her comfortable night dress and dried her hair. He didn’t do anything else for a bit, which surprised her because she really thought he’d throw her down the bed like he usually did.

Garan saw her puzzlement and smiled. He leaned down to kiss her forehead. "So hungry?"

This earned him a pinch on the abs, though Althea was unable to grasp much flesh at all.

Garan chuckled at her cuteness and sat next to her. "I won’t let my wife go hungry for too long, of course," he said, placing a chaste kiss on the side of her lips.

"But before that, let me give you a few gifts," he said, pausing to take a gift from the space. "This is the first one."

He wrapped his arm around her so she could rest her neck on his arm, and he leisurely handed the gift to her.

It was a shimmery flat stone that was smaller than her palm. It had what seemed like a flattened youli stone in the middle. He didn’t say what it was, but she knew it was a magic tool.

She raised her eyebrows and checked it with her ability.

[Memory Stone (E): Can record and store a moving image 30 seconds in length for an indefinite amount of time. New recordings will automatically overwrite existing ones.]

Her eyes widened and she looked at her husband. He smiled and leaned down to place another kiss on her forehead. He then gently took it off her hand and placed aether into it.

It activated immediately, with an image appearing on the youli flat stone. It was semi-transluscent and faded out, but the image was clear enough to Althea that she felt a few tears lining up her eyes.

It was an image of Garan and her two kids. They were smiling and staring out from the stone.

"Happy birthday, my love, I hope you enjoyed your first birthday in this world," Garan said, with the two babies happily bouncing as they sat on a thigh each. "We shall have decades after decades—no, centuries—more of adventures here, and I promise that this is the first of countless celebrations to come."

"Mwammwwaaahhh!"

"Goooghhmmammaaa!!"

The babies yelled, wiggling cutely and raising their little arms to reach the tool, though obviously to no avail. Garan held a baby in place with a hand on each stomach, though it didn’t stop them from attempting to jump out.

"We love you, Althea."

The thirty seconds ended in a flash, but it definitely made an impact. She turned to her husband, wrapping her arms around his wide shoulder. "Thank you! This is really great!"

She carefully placed it in her space. Garan smiled and took another gift from his space.