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Miranda received a letter from the Royal Palace of Avalor. Miranda opens the letter in anticipation. Her heart pounds in her chest. She knows Maria would never interrupt a social event such as this for no reason. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAxfHLmIMMvG
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𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂,309Please respect copyright.PENANA1t4UFNwkHo
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𝑴𝒚 𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅, 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔. 𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒔𝒐, 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒐𝒔 𝑹𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑾𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕. 𝑰 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒚 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒅𝒐𝒎. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAbZlOtswTk2
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𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂309Please respect copyright.PENANAyGEmmVPQ6w
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Her heart drops to the pit of her stomach and she feel sick. Miranda thinks her skin must look like a pale green by now. She slowly gets up as to not make anyone suspicious and goes to the horseman. "Please, discreetly get the carriage" she whispers and sees him leave. Miranda goes over to Fitz. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAlpv7Z8bHSq
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"Marcos is...how, when? Gina stutters after hearing the entire explanation. She isn't even certain how to react. "We have no idea who is helping her" Ara looks to her brothers Theo and Chris. "We have a list of suspects but nothing for certain". Ara puts her finger to her lip and taps into repeatedly, thinking of an answer. "Ivan Delgaldo is the highest ranking suspect" Chris pulls out a Wanted poster. 309Please respect copyright.PENANA91Tg1BIuhA
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It shows a man with black hair, brown eyes, thin face and lean body with three gigantic scar marks crossing his face. "What happened to him" Ara asks her hand flinching to her face. Almost as if she had been the one with the scars. 309Please respect copyright.PENANA6CymH3crUW
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"He was being whipped" Chris face is somber, "It's a form of justice our goverment gave under Abeluo ruling" Chris tells and uses air marks around the word justice. "The punishment they used it doesn't.." Theo pauses to compose himself. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAOKzyjm5c8M
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"It doesn't just break skin. It slashes it open, causes more trauma with each slash. They even put salt on his wounds to.." Theo trailed off, he didn't need to say what that did. Everyone had somber faces and looks of disbelief. "How could they just allow that?" Ara asks horrified by what the answer may be. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAvZhjAqBNuW
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"It isn't the most uncommon form of corporal punishment" Fitz explains as he looks to the other men. "Your grandfather led by fear especially". 309Please respect copyright.PENANAERhMRPbs73
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Ara and Gina can't tear their eyes away from that wanted poster. It makes a person just sick to their stomach. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAT1azujYnRA
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"Oh my god" Ara exclaims and pointed to the man's eye. It looks like marble but also bruised and disformed. The scars were so bad she didn't notice it at first. Yet now she can see that they mutilated this man more than once. "The whip went and hit his eyes when they flogged him". 309Please respect copyright.PENANA0glrWKBLnP
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Miranda watched them all her face grim and she looks older now than she did ten minutes ago. Miranda was there that day with Maria. Both of them had felt excalty how their daughters felt. They felt worse even because they felt helplessness. 309Please respect copyright.PENANATsk1BjKCUZ
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"Ivan became Marcos right hand man". The tiredness was not missed from Miranda's voice. Miranda is leaning on the table for support. Skin is an ashey grey and there are circle under her eyes. Ftiz goes over and leads her to a chair. 309Please respect copyright.PENANA0fARGsoiA1
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"Mama has a theory that the escapees may try something at the Embassy Ball. We aren't sure who excalty their rallying or how" Chris shows three royal invitations. The letter is crisp golden parchment with a purple seal to hold the letter together. On the seal it has the moniker of a golden eagle with the letters CF in the middle. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAg48Nprc5T7
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Fitz, Gina and Miranda pull the wax from the parchment and open to reveal golden letting inside and the Royal signature of the Queen and King. "Where is my invitation?" Ara bitterly turns and points at the three of them. Everyone but her starts to chuckle finding it funny it hasn't dawned on her. 309Please respect copyright.PENANA9M9QEFHNxU
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"Why would mama give you one" Theo shakes his head and points to the letters. "You are her daughter and Heiress to the throne. She would never exclude you". Ara checks burn and she glances down at the floor. Chris and Theo glance at one another and go over wrapping their arms around her. Ara lifts her head and looks at them both. She tilts her head as if contemplating something before she speaks. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAPzgEGkGI3C
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"Where is our sister Kate? I haven't seen head or tails of her since eveuthing happened". 309Please respect copyright.PENANAcdEact7Mu4
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It dawns on eveyone in the room that Kate was indeed missing from their little party. Chris and Theo both open their mouths to speak but quickly shutt them. No one knows where she has been for the past couple days even. How they carelessly all pushed her to the side none of them know. 309Please respect copyright.PENANA8uwFwigzBl
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A knock on the door and some light from the other room filters in. It shows a young women with her brown curly hair tied back. Gardening gloves cover her hands and mud and sweat is all over her face. Yet when they look at her face they see the same sparkling colored eyes all the Avalorian Royal have. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAplfcgpB4fJ
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"Kate" Ara breaths a sigh of relief and quickly embraces her sister. "Where were you this entire time?" Ara chides feeling like a mother babying her children. Kate doesn't answer immediately and points to her apperance. 309Please respect copyright.PENANApytOHhybfu
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"Gardening obviously" Kate states matter of factly. Kate explains how when she couldn't find her brothers or any of the girls she decided to find her own entertainment. Kate well walking the gardens of the Darcy estate found an old and worn down garden. It had vines everywhere, the grass was as high as field of barley and an old swing was left broken and rotten. "Seems like it had been neglected and unloved" Kate pulls out the seeds she had in her appron. She had five different kinds of seeds. Roses, Violets, Rosemary and Mint. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAlopg289Oj7
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"I've been working on it for hours. Around the last trip I made the animals started to make themselves know" Kate has a gigantic grin on her face. You can tell she has a knack and joy for it. The smiles disappears as she sees the tension in the room could be cutt with a knife. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAHHpAXkNzAJ
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"What did I miss". 309Please respect copyright.PENANA1c8hfAmemv
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They had much to explain and not alot of time to do it. None of them wanted to be the barrier of bad news or the messages that they all would be leaving for Avalor within the night. Chris was the first one to do so and after he finally got informed her with it all. Each person left for his or her own room to pack for the trip.309Please respect copyright.PENANAcV3Mj1pK3y
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Gina gets to sneak off to her bedroom under the disguise that she is packing for the carriage ride."𝐼 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑐𝒉 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑒, 𝐼 𝑠𝒉𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝒉𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠" Gina thinks as she pulls out the letter Joshua gave her earlier. She isn't sure what to expect b she isn't getting so damn tired of everyone not being able to be straightforward. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAn4I4OJPfhy
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𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑛𝑘. 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝐽𝑜𝑠𝒉𝑢𝑎. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝒉𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑙. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑒 𝑒𝑖𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠. 309Please respect copyright.PENANABLVhOxcV36
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𝑀𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑔𝒉𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐿𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡𝒉 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎'𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝒉𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑. 𝑀𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝒉 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑥 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡𝒉 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAiaRJtQeypm
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𝑆𝒉𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝒉𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝐽𝑜𝑠𝒉𝑢𝑎 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑒. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAzaJE2DNAjb
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𝐼 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑢𝑝 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡𝒉, 𝐼 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝒉𝑜𝑢𝑔𝒉𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝒉𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑇𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝒉𝑜𝑤 𝐼 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑖𝑔𝒉𝑡. 𝑀𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑟. 𝑇𝒉𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝒉𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑇𝒉𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝐸𝑥𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑅𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑢𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑟. 𝑀𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡. 309Please respect copyright.PENANAewcjOO2JZJ
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𝐼 𝒉𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑦. 309Please respect copyright.PENANA6pNABxeZVd
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Gina clutches the letter in her hands and she tries to calm her growing anger. She doesn't know wither she wants to kill him or keep him alive. He reveals all of that and just leaves her behind. She truly isn't sure what to think but she knows how furious she is with him. She shakes her head and puts the letter on her desk. She brings out her trunk and starts to pack. She doesn't want to waste time on someone like him.