
Another boring lesson, ever since I learned that I was a Royal, Heir to the throne all I've had are etiquette lessons. As if I hadn't had them from childhood and know absolutely nothing. I cringe as a light gleams into my eyesight. It burns and leaves spots all over my vision. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAI5IZZutH1q
283Please respect copyright.PENANArdC8TnREov
283Please respect copyright.PENANAqmCzinJ6Lx
"Psst, over here" I hear a whisper from the corner of the room. My head automatically goes to the nose and I see it's my brothers. Chris is leaning against the stonewall and spending the secret passageway. It's open just ajar, lucky for them it's out of the view of Mrs.Madoch. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAOWmFgbsMQs
283Please respect copyright.PENANAzt165XhxcL
283Please respect copyright.PENANAwvuJiruswT
283Please respect copyright.PENANAsb4vWH7TlW
Theo himself is throwing rocks onto the window to get Mrs.Madoch to fall into the trap. She won't, she is to stubborn and stern to fall for that. When I first meant Mrs.Madoch she seemed nice but tough. She is a women in her fifties, with grey peppered haired tied into a bun. She ears a long gray skirt and bodice. It's voided of any color or detail and emotionless.283Please respect copyright.PENANAbmmscL7j8C
283Please respect copyright.PENANAVrzoTusU1t
I've learned she is stern and cold hearted and shows almost no sympathy. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAxy8yFsFub7
283Please respect copyright.PENANAzN8HogSN0A
283Please respect copyright.PENANA7NPhlN3eH7
Chris shutts the passaway door and a loud bang echos through the room. Theo goes from his place behind the desk to the rooms entrance. Theo somehow quietly shutts the door behind him. A knock is heard and Theo ends up being the distraction. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAqitLDLU6VI
283Please respect copyright.PENANA2edFWnw6y8
283Please respect copyright.PENANAfLy4O7ZWYR
283Please respect copyright.PENANAeBiU1a6CPk
283Please respect copyright.PENANADjETyhDFtX
I feel a hand grab my wrist and pull me towards the open passageway. Chris makes sure that we made a good getaway. He leads me down the hallway, dripping noises are all I hear. Without Chris's lit torch we would be shrouded in darkness. The stone has mildew and moss, easy enough to see why. It's so cold and damp here, stone castles always feel that way. 283Please respect copyright.PENANA2ZIe4k9HHl
283Please respect copyright.PENANAp2PkVjDnRq
283Please respect copyright.PENANApwkzBuaCbf
Especially the dungeons and tombs. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAXSzKnWX54k
283Please respect copyright.PENANAbQwqIzHrfJ
283Please respect copyright.PENANAbkW2yXt9AE
These passageway must have been for servants, it's very small and narrow. A sign of their lower social and economic class. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAAGzSeVzJrg
283Please respect copyright.PENANAOy598C6R9b
283Please respect copyright.PENANAXxKcwIMwBq
283Please respect copyright.PENANA79iciNbtab
"Why did you do all that?" I ask because it clearly was unnecessary. "We didn't have a better way to get you out" Chris replies as if it's obvious. My feet freeze in their place. "You couldn't find.." I pause then continue -"You could have said mother requested my presences. You could have said I was needed somewhere eles. You didn't need to come up with a flamboyant and illogical stunt too". 283Please respect copyright.PENANAwy0SDQ3ILX
283Please respect copyright.PENANAXNjlwBEhao
283Please respect copyright.PENANANSutRwuFOV
Laughter echos off the walls, "You're right about all of that. Yet what is the point if your not having fun?". I don't even have a response to that. It's to smart of a comeback. "You call that fun" I scoffs as they come closer to the exit of the passageway. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAEVnpqu5Q5q
283Please respect copyright.PENANA6NLGQCQCgH
283Please respect copyright.PENANAs34JceHxvu
283Please respect copyright.PENANAB8eBmKS3Pm
We arrive to the bottom and the exit revealed a beautiful garden. Roses, Violets, palm trees surrounded by Florida torreya's. The sun beams down on them in a furry and the humidity makes you feel like your being strangled. A ruffle in the bushes and I see Theo. He mange to escape Mrs.Madoch. 283Please respect copyright.PENANATDvVH472GY
283Please respect copyright.PENANABizu9bqv7a
283Please respect copyright.PENANAtXJbhmEHO6
"You two brought me here for what reason?" I stiffle a giggle, Theo has leaves in his hair and well. I burst out laughing, "You're covered in Creeping Beggarweed and Goose Grass" Why didn't you just go to my room and climb down the tree?". 283Please respect copyright.PENANAnyji8OEplW
283Please respect copyright.PENANA6sz7BQIXjr
283Please respect copyright.PENANAFCnZXh8Zm1
"What? There's a tree near your room!" Theo exclaims and pauses to realize something. "You know what, I give up" he throws his arms in the air. I glance a look at Chris. His eye twitches and he is breathing evenly as if that can calm him. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAWV6pNz26ta
283Please respect copyright.PENANAJJ92iDAWuP
283Please respect copyright.PENANAOmGzGuozOF
"Not, why we brought her out here". 283Please respect copyright.PENANATG28ZrDaDv
283Please respect copyright.PENANAmrLsokNLEu
283Please respect copyright.PENANAnVOk5w5OGK
The boys lead me through the garden and past the gates to the city and town below. The more we walk we are passing nobles houses. They are smaller and less detailed than the palace. Yet a simple cutlery set from one of the Lords houses could feed an entire working family for a month. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAUaVQfLwA20
283Please respect copyright.PENANAuxVfSCA0FZ
283Please respect copyright.PENANAcWJ6WPU8ad
I'm not sure how long we took to get down to the working class section. None of us had a pocket watch and it's to shady to see the position of the sun. 283Please respect copyright.PENANA7uf2BS7s1I
283Please respect copyright.PENANAdMFzcsVOFH
283Please respect copyright.PENANA8WILK1YYGv
"This place is" 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒... that's what I want to say but it's caught in my throat. The roads are filled with manure, rotten food and waste products. I half to stop myself from gagging and I have to cover my mouth with my hankerchief. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAZDMvC4UE0o
283Please respect copyright.PENANAuRlRmSa0j4
283Please respect copyright.PENANArVIX1qhx37
"The Crown gives money to charties, homeless shelters but.." but it's never enough specially with the large amount of families and immigrants here. Houses are made from wood or brick. I look through the window and see five or six members of a family to one room. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAuMzplADSV9
283Please respect copyright.PENANAkyHXRIyMeJ
283Please respect copyright.PENANAtcdHYEcbx9
"How can they live like this? I mean their overly crowded. Disease and bacteria must be everywhere" i wonder with revulsion and I stop, I see something you can't unsee. "They have no choice it's this or no life at all. Their hand to mouth existence for them".283Please respect copyright.PENANA7EucTo2Lxq
283Please respect copyright.PENANAQSV96QCa2B
283Please respect copyright.PENANAa2GR41Iwf6
What Theo says is logical and factual but a mother selling her children for money. How can you justify that? I turn my head to another alleyway and see dead bodies lane around; forgotten and alone. 283Please respect copyright.PENANA92jg8JSGv1
283Please respect copyright.PENANAGgBTWZ78xW
283Please respect copyright.PENANAi9UpGRIfrY
My stomach twist and and I can feel it making its way back up. The road is filled woth waste so I lean against a wooden post. The contents of my stomach are sprayed on top of everything else. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAF0LoCIFRqd
283Please respect copyright.PENANAcLxvPI4wHi
283Please respect copyright.PENANAKWtcbVkM9B
"How could we, what could we. Why haven't we done anything?". 283Please respect copyright.PENANAWRnGYbF2k9
283Please respect copyright.PENANAEcK0gsTRVo
283Please respect copyright.PENANAvqMWeO6RxD
Tears stream down my face in sorrow, I'm meant to be their future Queen and I had no idea what they were going through. "What mama has done has help some. It's actually more than what grandfather did" Chris sounds like mama is a constilation prize compared to Grandpa. 283Please respect copyright.PENANANg2KTxr13q
283Please respect copyright.PENANAc7eholEpj4
283Please respect copyright.PENANAq5LCZdhOBA
"We have to do more. I won't let the people stay in poverty and workhorse their entire lives. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAQKtkPDwShb
283Please respect copyright.PENANAMkm0WZQtTU
283Please respect copyright.PENANA0MwoFZTR1J
283Please respect copyright.PENANA0Ct20XBbeX
~~~283Please respect copyright.PENANAkKzAxAs2ry
283Please respect copyright.PENANAaDZyZKqmOh
283Please respect copyright.PENANAeXDqJTQAIG
283Please respect copyright.PENANA8YlFyqOAKy
Miranda and I are having high Tea in the private living room. The Royal cheifs made an amazing Afternoon Tea. The top tier was made of sweets. A mousse cake, strawberry macroon, and a mini tart. The middle had amazing feta cheese and chocolate scones with blackberry jam and clotted cream. The last teir has savory treats on it. Poppyseed sandwich to chickpea sandwiches.283Please respect copyright.PENANAHWzEQXWVIC
283Please respect copyright.PENANAzNXtstYGP7
283Please respect copyright.PENANATC8IOJeSwT
"So.." I utter and Miranda mirrors me by saying the same thing. It's been so awkward since they arrived here. "I was so happy when you first came but now" I pause to gather the right way to say this. "We are acting like two strangers instead of best friends" Miranda I laugh in relief at least one of us has the guts to say something. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAQQTeUcTKzX
283Please respect copyright.PENANA3hfUqI8PSQ
283Please respect copyright.PENANAUdYHbFY1zi
283Please respect copyright.PENANA2DBX315sMX
This seemed to have broken the ice, we ended up talking for hours. Music, theater, put favorite actors and playwrites. Miranda and I hear yelling outside the door. "You can't just" Jackson, the high gaurd yells. Ara burst through the door with eyes blazing and fist near her sides. She is like an angry tiger ready to pounce. 283Please respect copyright.PENANAV7jwvo58Uh
283Please respect copyright.PENANAteS2mRGTNM
283Please respect copyright.PENANAXVWivcRiVG
Unfortunately for me I'm her target. 283Please respect copyright.PENANABiCj7CFf2v
283Please respect copyright.PENANAN9qofAvJFY
283Please respect copyright.PENANA8cpm8ILbt4
"You have to do better or I revoke my status as Heiress".283Please respect copyright.PENANAfcUYrgiJc3
283Please respect copyright.PENANAojgjRL9EPD
283Please respect copyright.PENANASfY249lSPX
283Please respect copyright.PENANAngGlB5nOlv
283Please respect copyright.PENANAkjFxHsa8YW
283Please respect copyright.PENANAojfT3IIjEl
283Please respect copyright.PENANAIj5qdp7gRu
283Please respect copyright.PENANAqbvS0YLwOm
283Please respect copyright.PENANAtLnHw0IeaN
283Please respect copyright.PENANA29NAklMXPv
283Please respect copyright.PENANALu9gjfjhRO
283Please respect copyright.PENANAOeB63pgJLW
283Please respect copyright.PENANA4zqHtXRhCx
283Please respect copyright.PENANAYn2I5FfnjO
283Please respect copyright.PENANAn7jvFPkDTN
283Please respect copyright.PENANAfyvRBxj5mS
283Please respect copyright.PENANA68R3IXlQnK