
It been nine years since her corination yet she still dreams about that day.304Please respect copyright.PENANAOXFNPkp4up
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Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.304Please respect copyright.PENANAhiy587KiFa
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAd09XDpeLEB
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304Please respect copyright.PENANA8mRHC7ZOxC
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAUlHNZvxt6U
304Please respect copyright.PENANAaS02ntNULd
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAzB2YZ5XkoH
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAZS7aScqUzF
304Please respect copyright.PENANA1H9i8nMI5K
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAb1wwAhbbDt
304Please respect copyright.PENANAQoEHwPF2hJ
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"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". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAwQgPhoSiDp
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"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.304Please respect copyright.PENANALYxiYiH1jp
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"That's impossible, I wasn't even there". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAQVDxXF13H2
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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?". 304Please respect copyright.PENANA1Jmyw7k8Ct
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAoa16cJW5er
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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.304Please respect copyright.PENANAcZl7hXDLrf
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"Marie" Nicholas yells and goes straight towards her side. Fear is etched all over his face. 304Please respect copyright.PENANATxrDLWSgZs
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAGfOq8xcGHd
304Please respect copyright.PENANAYdpc4NQXmO
304Please respect copyright.PENANAik6wO9i5ON
"What in the world could that be?". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAJWCHt5xxbK
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304Please respect copyright.PENANAWa4s227rvU
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAaJmin5SrO8
304Please respect copyright.PENANAvQwV9qg1i2
304Please respect copyright.PENANAnfDY56pKPO
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANA3Yz8jQ2BMa
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"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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAsJsfMx2kcs
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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". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAcVQvflpJJK
304Please respect copyright.PENANAwEyxxXGsae
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAUhtbpHD7T2
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANApcYfTsq2B0
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANA8TOikGfTuN
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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". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAaa4Eh4sGJb
304Please respect copyright.PENANAwLLC0Uym6m
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAa34shIpP1Y
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANA30JW3G2czh
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~~~~304Please respect copyright.PENANAypmXwk6XRl
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAa2PWviNdZj
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANADhs4NE3b0R
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As if they lived in darkness and could not, would not see the light. 304Please respect copyright.PENANA1Mjmlm9ukF
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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". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAUmfIPBiY3E
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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". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAEl6cYcXz7R
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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.304Please respect copyright.PENANAW17iclwACy
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It been nine years since her corination yet she still will dream about that day.304Please respect copyright.PENANAk1hIktA50B
304Please respect copyright.PENANAAYyWNVe8Dj
304Please respect copyright.PENANAlehbE4FMQk
Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.304Please respect copyright.PENANAvKio50G0Jn
304Please respect copyright.PENANAUmoDjEae52
304Please respect copyright.PENANAlJeeQLOZvQ
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANALUYjFhXGyC
304Please respect copyright.PENANAgxit1R6FxO
304Please respect copyright.PENANABtZOaBCGK3
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAQYI7V5M0nY
304Please respect copyright.PENANAjAhx86hK6L
304Please respect copyright.PENANArcCE9Y3G8x
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAsyPbJ4sAhf
304Please respect copyright.PENANAjJ0pu0BfVF
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAXuh25JE2A5
304Please respect copyright.PENANAUykeDOAFi1
304Please respect copyright.PENANAJfNj107tOi
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANA8VSnEgWj57
304Please respect copyright.PENANAVSTZAY6SGD
304Please respect copyright.PENANAmOwFdSptuE
"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". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAgCuUkmbj2i
304Please respect copyright.PENANAfLyVlMScP6
304Please respect copyright.PENANAAMNSj1SvK9
"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.304Please respect copyright.PENANAZEhhg9TPvJ
304Please respect copyright.PENANABghBTCYTOT
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"That's impossible, I wasn't even there". 304Please respect copyright.PENANA1OihDcX6NI
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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?". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAefe7ctxMCP
304Please respect copyright.PENANAjxa35NCHU9
304Please respect copyright.PENANAvfIV0SKeDB
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAtOrFMzTlsN
304Please respect copyright.PENANAf8cBMy9u1r
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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.304Please respect copyright.PENANARpkxQV8BIH
304Please respect copyright.PENANAcEReo5y4kd
"Marie" Nicholas yells and goes straight towards her side. Fear is etched all over his face. 304Please respect copyright.PENANASKSC9IXkWU
304Please respect copyright.PENANAxsiRAkeZwf
304Please respect copyright.PENANARA1oleuRgZ
304Please respect copyright.PENANAWBzJnAGZhS
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAumZ4uwKhcQ
304Please respect copyright.PENANA7CloPsCRNB
304Please respect copyright.PENANALcyv7jOrAk
"What in the world could that be?". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAxeZKOOHfdn
304Please respect copyright.PENANABNTD9k8hB4
304Please respect copyright.PENANABefWfw73mr
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAXlV5Nlmgtu
304Please respect copyright.PENANAyX0fHncVu5
304Please respect copyright.PENANAAAy8Lp3a7Y
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANA5TEBVfdYuH
304Please respect copyright.PENANAxqhBrbmJWm
304Please respect copyright.PENANAfXslbl1fUd
"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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAc7FGp6DLK3
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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". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAnxh2UgDYAV
304Please respect copyright.PENANACke3qQc9RP
304Please respect copyright.PENANAXBabJRj0A3
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANALF3AWeSWlD
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAtWZBQwMPhm
304Please respect copyright.PENANAWYWgnKw8hA
304Please respect copyright.PENANA88HHrsHp0L
"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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAcGz0RSKs9w
304Please respect copyright.PENANAApVlazphcD
304Please respect copyright.PENANAgDnxvDMIrz
"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". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAjl0ceP5IuW
304Please respect copyright.PENANA0DfG1qoZJq
304Please respect copyright.PENANAnESM2YPAy7
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANACxFmxPMekW
304Please respect copyright.PENANA2UocTxwN90
304Please respect copyright.PENANAqFwM1ssgk2
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAcQ3Fk6H5OS
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~~~~304Please respect copyright.PENANAu3N1zEbdNv
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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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAOtIAKxTAVj
304Please respect copyright.PENANAuOMDxbHyEx
304Please respect copyright.PENANAPfqBz6xdea
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. 304Please respect copyright.PENANAkRp5tQOSlF
304Please respect copyright.PENANALQEDSAQLc7
304Please respect copyright.PENANAL4CuujwLAy
As if they lived in darkness and could not, would not see the light. 304Please respect copyright.PENANA9KeoPjPh8u
304Please respect copyright.PENANAkaUxuYrqm3
304Please respect copyright.PENANAWhOBwQ42OU
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". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAfOCjk2yjIL
304Please respect copyright.PENANArj4WK8TvrH
304Please respect copyright.PENANAUcbBq2V0De
"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". 304Please respect copyright.PENANAtgV5gPOaU7
304Please respect copyright.PENANAHY40kLk0sO
304Please respect copyright.PENANA9dULdEOg0D
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.304Please respect copyright.PENANAgBa7BggeOe
304Please respect copyright.PENANAuazLNc6SJw
It been nine years since her corination yet she still will dream about that day.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAGYwnfo7K7D
Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAdW4QpYx1tA
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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAiWAu1J2K8f
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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAjN4ORnpTtd
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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAH6fnXvIzJ4
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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANApKZjZDfedj
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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAAHLFjyc02l
"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".
304Please respect copyright.PENANAlfBerj5eXr
"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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAtMlmliDAEc
"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?".
304Please respect copyright.PENANAXaNZqXJ4Dv
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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAOR5ArlUCDf
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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAFcOeRO5N5O
304Please respect copyright.PENANA8hW6b3NK3x
304Please respect copyright.PENANANDQDdrciIX
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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAhoUd6Ku8fT
"What in the world could that be?".
304Please respect copyright.PENANAHJ6JFnBk0s
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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAeDffs7xt9o
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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAzpFsqEH146
"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.
304Please respect copyright.PENANAj0F8sTwHL5
304Please respect copyright.PENANAAjbYn1Ww8d
"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".
304Please respect copyright.PENANAtkoaP3JR85
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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