
It been nine years since her corination yet she still dreams about that day.199Please respect copyright.PENANAiRlJMiH83e
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Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.199Please respect copyright.PENANA1Ov7ZM32Ui
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A date she isn't to forget. Marie remembers that for her Corination the people were expecting to get a bread roll, sausage, pretzels, ginger bread and a commerative cup. They people were over joyed that is until they heard there weren't be enough for eveyone there. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAFlGjt6WLRW
199Please respect copyright.PENANAGzDF4O7dyd
199Please respect copyright.PENANAXGivBEeOpZ
The ones in charge of the celebration and the organization of the gifts well they were only expecting several thousand but estimates say that 500,000 people came. The police failed to control the crowd and maintain civil order. The reports aren't even sure on casualties or injuries of the people. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAbwVqGbQNeU
199Please respect copyright.PENANAzM8Ai7in2p
199Please respect copyright.PENANAIWIq19HQdR
It was a stamped that killed them, it was a personal and national tragedy. It didn't matter that she visited them in the hospital, donated 407 dollars a year to the families, paid for the funeral od the deceased all from her own allowances and not the govermemt. 199Please respect copyright.PENANALukVvnrtq4
199Please respect copyright.PENANAgdZNspk6Pt
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It didn't matter what she did, they act like she didn't care all because she went to the British Ambassadors Ball. The event was luxurious and expensive one by the British goverment. It was to strength the alliance of their countries. 199Please respect copyright.PENANA5HzPSGBzol
199Please respect copyright.PENANAmRxBAVzfD5
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She went as to not risk losing an alliance with a powerful country. The Avalorian Press and her enemies painted her as a person, a Queen who did not care. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAej5A2QAaUl
199Please respect copyright.PENANArwP1koT8S5
199Please respect copyright.PENANAiuCkzYiEom
"You're Majesty, there's been uhh" Roland comes into her office. She been staring off into space. "A what?" In all their years as friends Roland usually does not hesitate. "We have heard reports from officials and police well there was a misunderstanding". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAFMLIeTxvF1
199Please respect copyright.PENANAkca4TowCK1
199Please respect copyright.PENANAsxYKQo7oT4
"The people of Avalor went to petition to the Queen at the Summer Palace in Madrid this morning. A peaceful protest turned deadly when a shots rang out from the Royal gaurd. It's rumored that Queen Maria had given the orders" Roland explain as he shows that morning newspaper.199Please respect copyright.PENANAxhqhjsJrBs
199Please respect copyright.PENANAf95HTSyf1T
199Please respect copyright.PENANAgia2dvjC5X
"That's impossible, I wasn't even there". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAB2uM0f38CD
199Please respect copyright.PENANA33qovQnGQ4
Maria is completely confused by the entire situation. "I wasn't there but if someone gave an order than who?". Maria and Roland rush out the door and down the stairs, "Why would they do it?". 199Please respect copyright.PENANA8EO6Rqo02h
199Please respect copyright.PENANAcZTXEjIrkj
199Please respect copyright.PENANATPPh9aWFS9
Roland and Marie are in the carrige riding over to the Summer Palace. The palace is only 15 miles away from her residential stay at the Zarzuela Palace. It takes an hour or to but to Marie it feels longer. 199Please respect copyright.PENANA9LFHOf8LJd
199Please respect copyright.PENANAOnQJcgo8RV
199Please respect copyright.PENANAWSg8ZbKLTm
The Queen is in such a rush she doesn't notice the beauty of the Palace itself. The walls of the palace itself is pained a mix of white and rose bud. It's detailed with accents of gold on arches and doorways.199Please respect copyright.PENANAsOvVYr2im9
199Please respect copyright.PENANAmLsh1QqdwI
"Marie" Nicholas yells and goes straight towards her side. Fear is etched all over his face. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAMlnQfuovgP
199Please respect copyright.PENANAIi2uS9dGQi
199Please respect copyright.PENANAw7q3ZLrw6c
199Please respect copyright.PENANAUqC0U8oEYP
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They spend the next few hours in council trying to figure out what to do for their people. The people want more power and the crown to take a back seat in the goverment. That's never happened in the history of their people. The entire council hear chanting in the dark outside of the palace walls. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAwdXc2ftEFo
199Please respect copyright.PENANAvHAtx0Lj4W
199Please respect copyright.PENANAiIgQf8WmsF
"What in the world could that be?". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAIH2P8nbsgB
199Please respect copyright.PENANAIKLeyesQmp
199Please respect copyright.PENANAnjWIiYrhxG
No one can answer that question, eveyone goes to a window to see what's going on. They see a crowd of citizens bellow them infront of the gates. Some hold signs and other posters. The light from the torches below gliter of the windows reflection. Something so dangerous and mencing, well it appears beautiful. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAVO0dOEFrCb
199Please respect copyright.PENANAbuPAVEGk7G
199Please respect copyright.PENANASCu7LvanFY
The door crashes when it hits against the walls and a loud bang echoes off the room. "We have come to a decision" Pedero Gonzalez, one of the older members of the Duma announces. "The Queen needs to leave the country" Pedro brown hair falls infront of his somber eyes. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAOA82LiOvRb
199Please respect copyright.PENANAdz5pfOMZOf
199Please respect copyright.PENANA4HxtNASwQn
"I can't leave my people" Maria exclaims desperation in her voice. She doesn't think she can leave her country in such disary. "What of my nephews?" Lenore, Maria younger sister points out. Her heart sinks. She didn't even think of her boys, Chris and Ben are only three and four respectfully. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAWpgmH6cNWn
199Please respect copyright.PENANAqLtMMLYgxH
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"They don't need you here Marie. If you stay you and your children could die. The rebels are getting closer and closer. The people are angry. It's not safe here anymore. You can run and live for another day". 199Please respect copyright.PENANA2UBFCVw7B1
199Please respect copyright.PENANAbjeE44iUtp
199Please respect copyright.PENANAEFLbAIizuC
Marie knows that Lenore has made a valid point even if she doesn't want to admit it. She touches her hand to her stomach and think of the Royal babies in her stomach now. They are due anyday now and the nerves have caused her to go into false contractions before. 199Please respect copyright.PENANA4J9rnWfPEP
199Please respect copyright.PENANAz8J5Gzs6LW
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Well distracted the none of the people in the room notice one of the younger members of the council motion to one of the guards. Before anyone can truly comprehend it men with guns surrounded them. 199Please respect copyright.PENANA3EqxZJCCg6
199Please respect copyright.PENANAKv8cugiLU8
199Please respect copyright.PENANAnl4aOwGMs1
"Queen Marie you must surrender the crown" Maria regonizes that voice, it's Marcos Rhonda. He is one of the youngest council members at the age of 25. He is medium height with honey colored hair and chocolate brown eyes. Top of his class yet he is determined and brash. A very smart and dangerous opponent. His father Ivan was friends with her father. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAwZ7jxfgLZ9
199Please respect copyright.PENANAgtijR7mt3y
199Please respect copyright.PENANA2UdwBQDbvt
"Why would you? Marie doesn't get to finishes her sentence as he just laughs in her face. "Why not? Our people are starving and suffering. We need help the goverment obviously can't help". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAb1OgYgOuEB
199Please respect copyright.PENANAVYAKwxT4Tt
199Please respect copyright.PENANAoExCjt2uC7
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"I waited on the sidelines, hoping and praying it would get better" the gleem in his eyes turn to daggers of haterid. Marie feels her heart shatter, they were nit close but this is betrayal, this is treason. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAWgoBwMERt8
199Please respect copyright.PENANA7aS6u26dwA
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A stabbing pain is felt from her lower abdomen and she feels terror stab and tear through her like a knife. "The twins, their coming" she screams as she clutches her stomach. "Take her to her bedchambers" Marcos orders just as she falls to the ground in pain. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAWzy7ihorWE
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~~~~199Please respect copyright.PENANASyZkgCWKZk
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Fifty six hours later and Marie lay in the bed white as a ghost and sweat dripping down her face. Eyes closed and breathing even you would think her asleep. She had just given birth to not one but two royal babies. The first born was a boy they decided to name Theodore Castillo-Flores and the second, a first born girl. They decided to name her Rosalinda Castillo-Flores. She barely go to hold them before her long time friend and servant ran off with her daughter. Seconds later her husband Nick ran off with their son, both to England. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAyuAG8saWnc
199Please respect copyright.PENANAO4nClPpcj3
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They had been planning for an escape plan for the twins since they found out they were expecting. Everyone knew that things were changing and the outcome could be deadly. What she didn't see coming was Marcos betrayal. Marie realizes that as much as she cares, her family cares in someway they have been ignorant to their people's agony. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAdKmMgCSprN
199Please respect copyright.PENANA3EYOdmwqOr
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As if they lived in darkness and could not, would not see the light. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAaz3Emdjksa
199Please respect copyright.PENANAwE11F2ROtA
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Marie knows that Nick, her children and herself shall all be imprisoned. Marcos and the rebels formed a new type of goverment. It's supposed to be for the people but it's really for their own necessities. They just need to think of a way for the children Marie train of thought is interrupted. "Maria Castillo-Flores" Hearing her entire names snaps her head up to see Marcos at the entrance. "Your relatives in England are willing to give you and your family refugee". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAQ9dztERoc7
199Please respect copyright.PENANA4rSF29trrS
199Please respect copyright.PENANAjGY2C7Mpbc
"When do we leave? I am surprised they were so generous to offer such a thing. My relationship with my English cousins have been rocky for awhile now". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAAmNX0evwaO
199Please respect copyright.PENANAnwnCAmz6FB
199Please respect copyright.PENANAeuAkf6na5B
Marcos just nods his head. He knows that political and economical situations have driven each country apart. Her cousin Queen Sofia is wife to King Edmund. The two were always thick as thives in their youth. It broke both of their hearts when their countries allegiances started putting a strain on their personal relationship.199Please respect copyright.PENANA4TpeKOuo1n
199Please respect copyright.PENANAeeiPSyLiln
It been nine years since her corination yet she still will dream about that day.199Please respect copyright.PENANAAgcfNIrt04
199Please respect copyright.PENANAnuItmJnWv7
199Please respect copyright.PENANATx3uzLrGJr
Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.199Please respect copyright.PENANASwFIMMu2Uq
199Please respect copyright.PENANAd0ymWUFeY2
199Please respect copyright.PENANAev5bnbGoyy
A date she isn't to forget. Marie remembers that for her Corination the people were expecting to get a bread roll, sausage, pretzels, ginger bread and a commerative cup. They people were over joyed that is until they heard there weren't be enough for eveyone there. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAJVkfbQ1H7d
199Please respect copyright.PENANAZwaUvGSvtB
199Please respect copyright.PENANA4GCWcSHjXL
The ones in charge of the celebration and the organization of the gifts well they were only expecting several thousand but estimates say that 500,000 people came. The police failed to control the crowd and maintain civil order. The reports aren't even sure on casualties or injuries of the people. 199Please respect copyright.PENANA9iVPtJRW99
199Please respect copyright.PENANAUey7QqcJbi
199Please respect copyright.PENANAaUQPLK9ryx
It was a stamped that killed them, it was a personal and national tragedy. It didn't matter that she visited them in the hospital, donated 407 dollars a year to the families, paid for the funeral od the deceased all from her own allowances and not the govermemt. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAa4L6TA4sjR
199Please respect copyright.PENANAkPhAb9iP7f
199Please respect copyright.PENANAeQGUUUs9pu
It didn't matter what she did, they act like she didn't care all because she went to the British Ambassadors Ball. The event was luxurious and expensive one by the British goverment. It was to strength the alliance of their countries. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAyxVCK5RvrJ
199Please respect copyright.PENANAQlQCwMKvz3
199Please respect copyright.PENANAlfGHyn8srO
She went as to not risk losing an alliance with a powerful country. The Avalorian Press and her enemies painted her as a person, a Queen who did not care. 199Please respect copyright.PENANA6U1w3fDhPr
199Please respect copyright.PENANARuehMdum4h
199Please respect copyright.PENANAemY6cExHu0
"You're Majesty, there's been uhh" Roland comes into her office. She been staring off into space. "A what?" In all their years as friends Roland usually does not hesitate. "We have heard reports from officials and police well there was a misunderstanding". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAPPmDT2fPeu
199Please respect copyright.PENANAYFH9Ct5CVa
199Please respect copyright.PENANAjrA5UsJJbN
"The people of Avalor went to petition to the Queen at the Summer Palace in Madrid this morning. A peaceful protest turned deadly when a shots rang out from the Royal gaurd. It's rumored that Queen Maria had given the orders" Roland explain as he shows that morning newspaper.199Please respect copyright.PENANA71V9TDYCeI
199Please respect copyright.PENANAtJy1LWMpgQ
199Please respect copyright.PENANA8f7m5fIrbE
"That's impossible, I wasn't even there". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAru4mnNVZ3I
199Please respect copyright.PENANAqwmLThNuN6
Maria is completely confused by the entire situation. "I wasn't there but if someone gave an order than who?". Maria and Roland rush out the door and down the stairs, "Why would they do it?". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAytsA3GNBtI
199Please respect copyright.PENANAmT2XGkrfPC
199Please respect copyright.PENANAogWbQFuZnW
Roland and Marie are in the carrige riding over to the Summer Palace. The palace is only 15 miles away from her residential stay at the Zarzuela Palace. It takes an hour or to but to Marie it feels longer. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAdkURv6OYA1
199Please respect copyright.PENANAq0wZKj777M
199Please respect copyright.PENANAuLNoxzKnUk
The Queen is in such a rush she doesn't notice the beauty of the Palace itself. The walls of the palace itself is pained a mix of white and rose bud. It's detailed with accents of gold on arches and doorways.199Please respect copyright.PENANAJfMrSPlHxg
199Please respect copyright.PENANAhCvamv9LTo
"Marie" Nicholas yells and goes straight towards her side. Fear is etched all over his face. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAQJXcumOEqd
199Please respect copyright.PENANA9tLUVLrYxT
199Please respect copyright.PENANA9eRQoxojpy
199Please respect copyright.PENANAiRcu2J3mE8
199Please respect copyright.PENANAao7oOmE9TW
They spend the next few hours in council trying to figure out what to do for their people. The people want more power and the crown to take a back seat in the goverment. That's never happened in the history of their people. The entire council hear chanting in the dark outside of the palace walls. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAMnw32pHW2P
199Please respect copyright.PENANA7gjnGCjTXk
199Please respect copyright.PENANAK6r2Rfgty9
"What in the world could that be?". 199Please respect copyright.PENANATdGXDoxpVH
199Please respect copyright.PENANADJtShbqPIF
199Please respect copyright.PENANATUc20aN744
No one can answer that question, eveyone goes to a window to see what's going on. They see a crowd of citizens bellow them infront of the gates. Some hold signs and other posters. The light from the torches below gliter of the windows reflection. Something so dangerous and mencing, well it appears beautiful. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAU6uy5FPsHq
199Please respect copyright.PENANA9KU3TLLuOi
199Please respect copyright.PENANABgUZywvtNQ
The door crashes when it hits against the walls and a loud bang echoes off the room. "We have come to a decision" Pedero Gonzalez, one of the older members of the Duma announces. "The Queen needs to leave the country" Pedro brown hair falls infront of his somber eyes. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAQBIIKJpW4D
199Please respect copyright.PENANA0PoPtYCjl2
199Please respect copyright.PENANAOZl8fG2R2u
"I can't leave my people" Maria exclaims desperation in her voice. She doesn't think she can leave her country in such disary. "What of my nephews?" Lenore, Maria younger sister points out. Her heart sinks. She didn't even think of her boys, Chris and Ben are only three and four respectfully. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAAgMrTjFoZ4
199Please respect copyright.PENANAMu0Pm8EjsQ
199Please respect copyright.PENANA4z2pZpa3uX
199Please respect copyright.PENANAo2oogaIFWP
"They don't need you here Marie. If you stay you and your children could die. The rebels are getting closer and closer. The people are angry. It's not safe here anymore. You can run and live for another day". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAksR48BvUAv
199Please respect copyright.PENANA8uOVNvg5yC
199Please respect copyright.PENANAOQDVaLJVaJ
Marie knows that Lenore has made a valid point even if she doesn't want to admit it. She touches her hand to her stomach and think of the Royal babies in her stomach now. They are due anyday now and the nerves have caused her to go into false contractions before. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAgLkJvUXkSb
199Please respect copyright.PENANAEJTCZ4CRvH
199Please respect copyright.PENANAdfu3dD81Vf
Well distracted the none of the people in the room notice one of the younger members of the council motion to one of the guards. Before anyone can truly comprehend it men with guns surrounded them. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAajTDVtQp3L
199Please respect copyright.PENANAWtxwEbrrZe
199Please respect copyright.PENANAfNUtj2ESKo
"Queen Marie you must surrender the crown" Maria regonizes that voice, it's Marcos Rhonda. He is one of the youngest council members at the age of 25. He is medium height with honey colored hair and chocolate brown eyes. Top of his class yet he is determined and brash. A very smart and dangerous opponent. His father Ivan was friends with her father. 199Please respect copyright.PENANARuUEqdVhxm
199Please respect copyright.PENANAS7QkVzVfZu
199Please respect copyright.PENANAN4UmpnzANu
"Why would you? Marie doesn't get to finishes her sentence as he just laughs in her face. "Why not? Our people are starving and suffering. We need help the goverment obviously can't help". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAojIX3jmJER
199Please respect copyright.PENANAYG26P4UD48
199Please respect copyright.PENANArdkmgAeYKd
199Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4fHDzBBL9
"I waited on the sidelines, hoping and praying it would get better" the gleem in his eyes turn to daggers of haterid. Marie feels her heart shatter, they were nit close but this is betrayal, this is treason. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAHLWgSV3n3z
199Please respect copyright.PENANAUNV1dh8HyE
199Please respect copyright.PENANAPT0tPAlce0
A stabbing pain is felt from her lower abdomen and she feels terror stab and tear through her like a knife. "The twins, their coming" she screams as she clutches her stomach. "Take her to her bedchambers" Marcos orders just as she falls to the ground in pain. 199Please respect copyright.PENANA3gGX1DEBUY
199Please respect copyright.PENANACeswzjgcu7
199Please respect copyright.PENANA8qELSmrP8d
~~~~199Please respect copyright.PENANAw6JtbjK9Nz
199Please respect copyright.PENANAwnvQH4ROFo
199Please respect copyright.PENANAhOFsmyYzvl
Fifty six hours later and Marie lay in the bed white as a ghost and sweat dripping down her face. Eyes closed and breathing even you would think her asleep. She had just given birth to not one but two royal babies. The first born was a boy they decided to name Theodore Castillo-Flores and the second, a first born girl. They decided to name her Rosalinda Castillo-Flores. She barely go to hold them before her long time friend and servant ran off with her daughter. Seconds later her husband Nick ran off with their son, both to England. 199Please respect copyright.PENANA8HBG4jeZy7
199Please respect copyright.PENANAtqYLPumMQx
199Please respect copyright.PENANA9Fl2WArAYO
They had been planning for an escape plan for the twins since they found out they were expecting. Everyone knew that things were changing and the outcome could be deadly. What she didn't see coming was Marcos betrayal. Marie realizes that as much as she cares, her family cares in someway they have been ignorant to their people's agony. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAjWGGxdCXmZ
199Please respect copyright.PENANANDJfZCVI7q
199Please respect copyright.PENANAbW1atRhwQD
As if they lived in darkness and could not, would not see the light. 199Please respect copyright.PENANAikEoRLQw4V
199Please respect copyright.PENANAssTBpfm44r
199Please respect copyright.PENANA3WdsmLYKkf
Marie knows that Nick, her children and herself shall all be imprisoned. Marcos and the rebels formed a new type of goverment. It's supposed to be for the people but it's really for their own necessities. They just need to think of a way for the children Marie train of thought is interrupted. "Maria Castillo-Flores" Hearing her entire names snaps her head up to see Marcos at the entrance. "Your relatives in England are willing to give you and your family refugee". 199Please respect copyright.PENANAEaR9tSRSPz
199Please respect copyright.PENANAdfrOEMeQ5A
199Please respect copyright.PENANAKDAN4Aquvx
"When do we leave? I am surprised they were so generous to offer such a thing. My relationship with my English cousins have been rocky for awhile now". 199Please respect copyright.PENANA1gkV1lh0Xi
199Please respect copyright.PENANAu2bye288Co
199Please respect copyright.PENANAyxuiuz7e2o
Marcos just nods his head. He knows that political and economical situations have driven each country apart. Her cousin Queen Sofia is wife to King Edmund. The two were always thick as thives in their youth. It broke both of their hearts when their countries allegiances started putting a strain on their personal relationship.199Please respect copyright.PENANAdEycHY6GbA
199Please respect copyright.PENANAOKfKiQTwYL
It been nine years since her corination yet she still will dream about that day.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAIUgz7OHOM9
Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAjAQkqBrcf2
A date she isn't to forget. Marie remembers that for her Corination the people were expecting to get a bread roll, sausage, pretzels, ginger bread and a commerative cup. They people were over joyed that is until they heard there weren't be enough for eveyone there.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAv4jBsJLyOh
The ones in charge of the celebration and the organization of the gifts well they were only expecting several thousand but estimates say that 500,000 people came. The police failed to control the crowd and maintain civil order. The reports aren't even sure on casualties or injuries of the people.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAahArdRuTDU
It was a stamped that killed them, it was a personal and national tragedy. It didn't matter that she visited them in the hospital, donated 407 dollars a year to the families, paid for the funeral od the deceased all from her own allowances and not the govermemt.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAkBVaetWKk0
It didn't matter what she did, they act like she didn't care all because she went to the British Ambassadors Ball. The event was luxurious and expensive one by the British goverment. It was to strength the alliance of their countries.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAB8ToCE8jVn
She went as to not risk losing an alliance with a powerful country. The Avalorian Press and her enemies painted her as a person, a Queen who did not care.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAaHQbUXci8f
"You're Majesty, there's been uhh" Roland comes into her office. She been staring off into space. "A what?" In all their years as friends Roland usually does not hesitate. "We have heard reports from officials and police well there was a misunderstanding".
199Please respect copyright.PENANArTIR1sUjVP
"The people of Avalor went to petition to the Queen at the Summer Palace in Madrid this morning. A peaceful protest turned deadly when a shots rang out from the Royal gaurd. It's rumored that Queen Maria had given the orders" Roland explain as he shows that morning newspaper.
199Please respect copyright.PENANA2qBcOeT6pf
"That's impossible, I wasn't even there".
Maria is completely confused by the entire situation. "I wasn't there but if someone gave an order than who?". Maria and Roland rush out the door and down the stairs, "Why would they do it?".
199Please respect copyright.PENANAe2Mwj9vQsQ
Roland and Marie are in the carrige riding over to the Summer Palace. The palace is only 15 miles away from her residential stay at the Zarzuela Palace. It takes an hour or to but to Marie it feels longer.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAWAFUlGuYZ3
The Queen is in such a rush she doesn't notice the beauty of the Palace itself. The walls of the palace itself is pained a mix of white and rose bud. It's detailed with accents of gold on arches and doorways.
"Marie" Nicholas yells and goes straight towards her side. Fear is etched all over his face.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAGQ1NErNulv
199Please respect copyright.PENANAenILXYVQCl
199Please respect copyright.PENANA7INKK2LwNH
They spend the next few hours in council trying to figure out what to do for their people. The people want more power and the crown to take a back seat in the goverment. That's never happened in the history of their people. The entire council hear chanting in the dark outside of the palace walls.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAej0zqzdAqL
"What in the world could that be?".
199Please respect copyright.PENANAEiNbo8FJaX
No one can answer that question, eveyone goes to a window to see what's going on. They see a crowd of citizens bellow them infront of the gates. Some hold signs and other posters. The light from the torches below gliter of the windows reflection. Something so dangerous and mencing, well it appears beautiful.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAbBXR7o8Vxz
The door crashes when it hits against the walls and a loud bang echoes off the room. "We have come to a decision" Pedero Gonzalez, one of the older members of the Duma announces. "The Queen needs to leave the country" Pedro brown hair falls infront of his somber eyes.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAXccpdebDmu
"I can't leave my people" Maria exclaims desperation in her voice. She doesn't think she can leave her country in such disary. "What of my nephews?" Lenore, Maria younger sister points out. Her heart sinks. She didn't even think of her boys, Chris and Ben are only three and four respectfully.
199Please respect copyright.PENANAv27s2UWA85
199Please respect copyright.PENANAg6QpS8HxE3
"They don't need you here Marie. If you stay you and your children could die. The rebels are getting closer and closer. The people are angry. It's not safe here anymore. You can run and live for another day".
199Please respect copyright.PENANAx6UZgvv7J1
Marie knows that Lenore has made a valid point even if she doesn't want to admit it. She touches her hand to her stomach and think of the Royal babies in her stomach now. They are due anyday now and the nerves have caused her to go into false contractions before.
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Well distracted the none of the people in the room notice one of the younger members of the council motion to one of the guards. Before anyone can truly comprehend it men with guns surrounded them.
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"Queen Marie you must surrender the crown" Maria regonizes that voice, it's Marcos Rhonda. He is one of the youngest council members at the age of 25. He is medium height with honey colored hair and chocolate brown eyes. Top of his class yet he is determined and brash. A very smart and dangerous opponent. His father Ivan was friends with her father.
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"Why would you? Marie doesn't get to finishes her sentence as he just laughs in her face. "Why not? Our people are starving and suffering. We need help the goverment obviously can't help".
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"I waited on the sidelines, hoping and praying it would get better" the gleem in his eyes turn to daggers of haterid. Marie feels her heart shatter, they were nit close but this is betrayal, this is treason.
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A stabbing pain is felt from her lower abdomen and she feels terror stab and tear through her like a knife. "The twins, their coming" she screams as she clutches her stomach. "Take her to her bedchambers" Marcos orders just as she falls to the ground in pain.
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Fifty six hours later and Marie lay in the bed white as a ghost and sweat dripping down her face. Eyes closed and breathing even you would think her asleep. She had just given birth to not one but two royal babies. The first born was a boy they decided to name Theodore Castillo-Flores and the second, a first born girl. They decided to name her Rosalinda Castillo-Flores. She barely go to hold them before her long time friend and servant ran off with her daughter. Seconds later her husband Nick ran off with their son, both to England.
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They had been planning for an escape plan for the twins since they found out they were expecting. Everyone knew that things were changing and the outcome could be deadly. What she didn't see coming was Marcos betrayal. Marie realizes that as much as she cares, her family cares in someway they have been ignorant to their people's agony.
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As if they lived in darkness and could not, would not see the light.
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Marie knows that Nick, her children and herself shall all be imprisoned. Marcos and the rebels formed a new type of goverment. It's supposed to be for the people but it's really for their own necessities. They just need to think of a way for the children Marie train of thought is interrupted. "Maria Castillo-Flores" Hearing her entire names snaps her head up to see Marcos at the entrance. "Your relatives in England are willing to give you and your family refugee".
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"When do we leave? I am surprised they were so generous to offer such a thing. My relationship with my English cousins have been rocky for awhile now".
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Marcos just nods his head. He knows that political and economical situations have driven each country apart. Her cousin Queen Sofia is wife to King Edmund. The two were always thick as thives in their youth. It broke both of their hearts when their countries allegiances started putting a strain on their personal relationship.
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"You better take the offer"Marcos gives her the letter so she can read in full detail what her relatives are offering her. "If you don't I can't promise your safety".
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