
It been nine years since her corination yet she still dreams about that day.310Please respect copyright.PENANAyp5a6bhj7v
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Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.310Please respect copyright.PENANA7Xl3l7gvWs
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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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAXKbPVEUZgN
310Please respect copyright.PENANApnGnMTeHAw
310Please respect copyright.PENANATG8uUKN4mO
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAOsGaaL8D8D
310Please respect copyright.PENANAxWpvED6gU1
310Please respect copyright.PENANAQBYZDbyBeP
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAITclpZ3RVQ
310Please respect copyright.PENANAEGGKflpKqR
310Please respect copyright.PENANAV7D3tUL8JS
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANA8r0mRohMeM
310Please respect copyright.PENANApBbd2P1XwS
310Please respect copyright.PENANAJFAC2YrrlX
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAavkTNZFTQ6
310Please respect copyright.PENANAET4GxVL1rI
310Please respect copyright.PENANAHhXWG3icf0
"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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAreOLxylnzF
310Please respect copyright.PENANApcGpi19wyF
310Please respect copyright.PENANAWs4DrREWp5
"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.310Please respect copyright.PENANAmoEiVN0sCY
310Please respect copyright.PENANA6K7vq2ukZs
310Please respect copyright.PENANAbRILYNNpT0
"That's impossible, I wasn't even there". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAreVIuxILbR
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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?". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAJbn9FWadss
310Please respect copyright.PENANA5TboiUwwb1
310Please respect copyright.PENANAnVsAq3BHvh
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANA5DX4Zv7exn
310Please respect copyright.PENANAJg4FWDeYMu
310Please respect copyright.PENANARA9RsFe4CF
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.310Please respect copyright.PENANAtQNf1028tD
310Please respect copyright.PENANAaFDXSRu7D2
"Marie" Nicholas yells and goes straight towards her side. Fear is etched all over his face. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAhRX5M3oeK5
310Please respect copyright.PENANAwp85Oolo4A
310Please respect copyright.PENANA6VHnYR3ROv
310Please respect copyright.PENANApoNcUofkvY
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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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANA3apZcLf5jx
310Please respect copyright.PENANAivqRjrXkYm
310Please respect copyright.PENANARKWYKVeaxy
"What in the world could that be?". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAp1YwCSqRju
310Please respect copyright.PENANAzMU4HZstug
310Please respect copyright.PENANAiCSDwEgEpz
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAiPavHPDpZD
310Please respect copyright.PENANAMUOsJsBehg
310Please respect copyright.PENANAM6xK5dvDf5
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAOzzA9d1aj1
310Please respect copyright.PENANAqz5zYZy0t6
310Please respect copyright.PENANAXcDQ71hQqC
"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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAXkkgDwpVD8
310Please respect copyright.PENANA7N2v19cYKN
310Please respect copyright.PENANABzwtLs9lqV
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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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANASy6JZvYF4g
310Please respect copyright.PENANAdA4MQJtk6B
310Please respect copyright.PENANAJrFCF6AuZY
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAleQJ88Xz5Y
310Please respect copyright.PENANAWPAJWK39bi
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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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAdMzShgMQWT
310Please respect copyright.PENANAqhJQC1eHbF
310Please respect copyright.PENANA40pcNDXGOY
"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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAbc6HwYZWYT
310Please respect copyright.PENANA3LyiNpvs5o
310Please respect copyright.PENANAiFhgFHNfh1
"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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAV85hG1gksm
310Please respect copyright.PENANA1QRYnWhQgt
310Please respect copyright.PENANAJxjrcicJcf
310Please respect copyright.PENANAQv2wY7EqWf
"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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANACLnb7idEFy
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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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANANWCxTRjy0n
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~~~~310Please respect copyright.PENANAm1Kb7Sac7p
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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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAcVo1bUNF4q
310Please respect copyright.PENANA0imfMC9QRb
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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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAfSZwBhdkqU
310Please respect copyright.PENANAytrJikIiUn
310Please respect copyright.PENANAXq7w7uSiqc
As if they lived in darkness and could not, would not see the light. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAvTNiSmZ9Wt
310Please respect copyright.PENANAzBVSHQQXwQ
310Please respect copyright.PENANAd0vU7A7KzZ
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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAQvl6En5fPO
310Please respect copyright.PENANAIYhjjCgdmn
310Please respect copyright.PENANAwGyo58CTGB
"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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANA4n9j5XnYki
310Please respect copyright.PENANARysL8NhGMt
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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.310Please respect copyright.PENANA2rzOYsnpwp
310Please respect copyright.PENANAZHvmkTf1Wn
It been nine years since her corination yet she still will dream about that day.310Please respect copyright.PENANADamEtU2tY0
310Please respect copyright.PENANAD4KGQp5wMS
310Please respect copyright.PENANARSi1BEv8yQ
Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.310Please respect copyright.PENANAaE0xCdcJPw
310Please respect copyright.PENANA2N3hgIC7aO
310Please respect copyright.PENANAyE4eL5OAlE
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAHnFgslZC0z
310Please respect copyright.PENANA3iSoUg3F39
310Please respect copyright.PENANAearjpTzjTe
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAN9FaiHOrql
310Please respect copyright.PENANApmEs1bWcXO
310Please respect copyright.PENANA7bNKo0ITtz
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAZg86aKzeA4
310Please respect copyright.PENANAlLBUFZjs2k
310Please respect copyright.PENANA3qcUUql7rL
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAmvgouHzul0
310Please respect copyright.PENANARY592l44S3
310Please respect copyright.PENANAdbUgQpDw48
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAt3AhSVito9
310Please respect copyright.PENANA9qmFT2WSLf
310Please respect copyright.PENANAa9rKwFInd2
"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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAAc4HovtWf4
310Please respect copyright.PENANAy4wUlPxl5o
310Please respect copyright.PENANAWKRkB2gxow
"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.310Please respect copyright.PENANADVzbJpBArT
310Please respect copyright.PENANAWfMNLqqt8t
310Please respect copyright.PENANA2lJjgqo4f2
"That's impossible, I wasn't even there". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAqtU0vMLkZc
310Please respect copyright.PENANAExNAd3uZt9
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?". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAvuXvyJ5vI7
310Please respect copyright.PENANAzej7rCI8z2
310Please respect copyright.PENANAmSosvVn3Au
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANARuDWymTNX1
310Please respect copyright.PENANANFBHGrT7jY
310Please respect copyright.PENANAOIScPiDPAP
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.310Please respect copyright.PENANAFQxG6BI472
310Please respect copyright.PENANAdYlSCLLOcK
"Marie" Nicholas yells and goes straight towards her side. Fear is etched all over his face. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAMCi6GqjTZy
310Please respect copyright.PENANAXCXqalM9iY
310Please respect copyright.PENANARoartAedI8
310Please respect copyright.PENANAyKPYsNGaMx
310Please respect copyright.PENANAgpvERzRZxN
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANA9OGGrWnGMg
310Please respect copyright.PENANAca5AYAyKtB
310Please respect copyright.PENANAsi0NuzEJ79
"What in the world could that be?". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAy3DnENVlU4
310Please respect copyright.PENANA8NKsnclMxy
310Please respect copyright.PENANAuIq3LF2XE7
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAIZeJiqQG05
310Please respect copyright.PENANA3m2E22DrvW
310Please respect copyright.PENANAOBTL1kdRxt
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANA8oBzd2LkGl
310Please respect copyright.PENANAhjTGHB3QXm
310Please respect copyright.PENANArU78QrJx1K
"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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANADlnlI1Cwug
310Please respect copyright.PENANAduRf4llWpQ
310Please respect copyright.PENANAOYdlFHXkeY
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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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAeBGlSJiWyf
310Please respect copyright.PENANAERzoJcnJB4
310Please respect copyright.PENANAvtvAegN8ko
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAWRcLc6j3do
310Please respect copyright.PENANA3MjjRSpJLZ
310Please respect copyright.PENANAxxDmJCEPQG
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAzUG4JNy8c0
310Please respect copyright.PENANAPEtL0Kb9Mf
310Please respect copyright.PENANAxvLZuXbOxK
"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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAImgnv2EA4w
310Please respect copyright.PENANAxLoHnknwd5
310Please respect copyright.PENANA9VFKqlsI7m
"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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAaGKVBGhqen
310Please respect copyright.PENANAHr2h6d5H2L
310Please respect copyright.PENANApkwGdLR8vG
310Please respect copyright.PENANA0WwrGmMZz0
"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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANATYXLz3barc
310Please respect copyright.PENANAI0ezTrSQdO
310Please respect copyright.PENANAqhm4epZuPG
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAI8X4M8nfLi
310Please respect copyright.PENANAEO4cltmh9c
310Please respect copyright.PENANAPu8KLFYdEm
~~~~310Please respect copyright.PENANA2pWsRyo4yw
310Please respect copyright.PENANA7XEpLujQND
310Please respect copyright.PENANACuoUhdulLA
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANA5yV6Eixroa
310Please respect copyright.PENANA68uANhgu6w
310Please respect copyright.PENANAyHSMTeCqT1
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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAYBP53x3pUE
310Please respect copyright.PENANA2qayRGtYHn
310Please respect copyright.PENANAGsvBl4i5BO
As if they lived in darkness and could not, would not see the light. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAdAxvMtc8yH
310Please respect copyright.PENANA7wwnysX1gs
310Please respect copyright.PENANASmikCY8tTE
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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAApm2tmmMYy
310Please respect copyright.PENANAmpaZbrsNBR
310Please respect copyright.PENANADX6RWVchT0
"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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAgBHOrOKMop
310Please respect copyright.PENANAHg8vaKblLv
310Please respect copyright.PENANA83rjj1ajI4
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.310Please respect copyright.PENANA2GOZtG2sdV
310Please respect copyright.PENANAO8K8MxgItH
It been nine years since her corination yet she still will dream about that day.
310Please respect copyright.PENANAsENDkxToCi
Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.
310Please respect copyright.PENANAv6HcDUrfzs
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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANA9gQq1vDp1E
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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANAa98zLAe33s
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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANAdxdMzp0qyv
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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANAOOyPB6eJV9
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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANAwan2xqvmSb
"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".
310Please respect copyright.PENANA6RWGUrZwLP
"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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANAMOFUNIX7wO
"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?".
310Please respect copyright.PENANAf6GZoANXd3
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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANA4inxRezbSK
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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANACnnAGxVPkm
310Please respect copyright.PENANArfc8X82EZM
310Please respect copyright.PENANAkeiBO0mvlk
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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANACfyyURsESE
"What in the world could that be?".
310Please respect copyright.PENANAcJEagl2KWH
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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANABkpkS3jR8D
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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANA3Hm7H0CPGu
"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.
310Please respect copyright.PENANAqxblIK5c6o
310Please respect copyright.PENANA6v4g2sV3M0
"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".
310Please respect copyright.PENANAewOFQdPNUj
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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