
It been nine years since her corination yet she still dreams about that day.310Please respect copyright.PENANAafSK7ulzqG
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Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.310Please respect copyright.PENANAEFN3hxWYc3
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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.PENANA8AQ3oiQANo
310Please respect copyright.PENANAK8DV8LYx0D
310Please respect copyright.PENANALN5nj61mua
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.PENANAj9HHs8fSPP
310Please respect copyright.PENANATld2zpKL18
310Please respect copyright.PENANARX1pXgVtTC
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.PENANA2TyEiWIXue
310Please respect copyright.PENANAb07tq1zzEd
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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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANApOo2g2cuVA
310Please respect copyright.PENANAhUkKeXawSH
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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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANArmdgX4e4n4
310Please respect copyright.PENANAUEf3jTRF8X
310Please respect copyright.PENANAfm7bGJPGUv
"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.PENANAmC8ZDZ9eLZ
310Please respect copyright.PENANAmrtp6mLrLg
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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.310Please respect copyright.PENANAJuPYbhgFmq
310Please respect copyright.PENANAnm7Z4S21pw
310Please respect copyright.PENANASeYA4p3uIV
"That's impossible, I wasn't even there". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAzqP7F2oTXZ
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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.PENANAlHS9QuVYeH
310Please respect copyright.PENANAF81HZ7PAfE
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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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANA9UBGKCp4s3
310Please respect copyright.PENANAVJ04U8aOny
310Please respect copyright.PENANAKPbRpBhf4F
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.PENANAqe9sg7QnLy
310Please respect copyright.PENANAiIszFvuRl9
"Marie" Nicholas yells and goes straight towards her side. Fear is etched all over his face. 310Please respect copyright.PENANA63Nvng5Plq
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310Please respect copyright.PENANAQ2wCj7HH1x
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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.PENANAFcAyNoy9ty
310Please respect copyright.PENANAtLMtd4klZE
310Please respect copyright.PENANAF7E9LzN3ft
"What in the world could that be?". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAyHtqX7lSAP
310Please respect copyright.PENANAQQkZTNpEDX
310Please respect copyright.PENANAwIl1YfK7I9
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.PENANAhJoMu15dmI
310Please respect copyright.PENANADt85jDlENG
310Please respect copyright.PENANAWcpOkvcEQV
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.PENANAwmQZ3y8La3
310Please respect copyright.PENANAptiqSBibrL
310Please respect copyright.PENANAUhi8knOJPS
"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.PENANAi4i66uROqA
310Please respect copyright.PENANAaH3YGA9H50
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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.PENANAcm9nYAySAt
310Please respect copyright.PENANAxQT5xOW0Wc
310Please respect copyright.PENANA0IiXkwqixV
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.PENANAcLncAWrOaK
310Please respect copyright.PENANAo1HY4reGiw
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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.PENANA9lNiT69skY
310Please respect copyright.PENANAtUfZNjkEPN
310Please respect copyright.PENANAIXkpVLfK7X
"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.PENANAO1DKq9ixjw
310Please respect copyright.PENANANU4MYNgiUI
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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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAKSCgD4IDpo
310Please respect copyright.PENANAIYezlvzLRr
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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. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAIIMFAszVYs
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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.PENANAwbNQB6ZRCh
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~~~~310Please respect copyright.PENANAHf3s0fUKYq
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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.PENANAjCc5emtkE5
310Please respect copyright.PENANArE8OvolvD7
310Please respect copyright.PENANAf5rSXZhnh7
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.PENANAQ6XakAbDGN
310Please respect copyright.PENANAfDL57nyAcQ
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As if they lived in darkness and could not, would not see the light. 310Please respect copyright.PENANA94j2xWdbvm
310Please respect copyright.PENANAyhy6WywLsJ
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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". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAEgTngbOGaQ
310Please respect copyright.PENANA5mCd3bdTHi
310Please respect copyright.PENANAG7Y22fsdFM
"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.PENANACGqouZGAbZ
310Please respect copyright.PENANANH9gBSjrMY
310Please respect copyright.PENANAtWx6WvgIid
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.PENANASxPvMTK6OU
310Please respect copyright.PENANAMXrLaCQwvY
It been nine years since her corination yet she still will dream about that day.310Please respect copyright.PENANAnYDbEdeNv3
310Please respect copyright.PENANAwhXnM0ugJZ
310Please respect copyright.PENANAOaE7six0kx
Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.310Please respect copyright.PENANA6fmk0bOWNC
310Please respect copyright.PENANA80u82u3Hyj
310Please respect copyright.PENANADlvF6ZnqFR
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.PENANA9PupFDlNHO
310Please respect copyright.PENANAQQNrqDN166
310Please respect copyright.PENANA5qd3kYqurJ
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.PENANAHxp6XJ8RiG
310Please respect copyright.PENANAqJRcYqffAg
310Please respect copyright.PENANAte90rBO4Kq
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.PENANAOXVJP5mfk5
310Please respect copyright.PENANARbAUqpCysN
310Please respect copyright.PENANAlobh5BB2Gj
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.PENANAFpjQKRag1n
310Please respect copyright.PENANAfL2ymoAo1m
310Please respect copyright.PENANA61Y3Rbbw18
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.PENANAVdNTDY69g7
310Please respect copyright.PENANAx3y3v0pdZM
310Please respect copyright.PENANAzC7Pc8dDDz
"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.PENANAegZJegUeev
310Please respect copyright.PENANAXZpv1AEsFq
310Please respect copyright.PENANAe6id2Kw2Mq
"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.PENANAEufba2rcA7
310Please respect copyright.PENANAlFBESTQYYd
310Please respect copyright.PENANA0Jqwy2fFID
"That's impossible, I wasn't even there". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAwF7T0k7R2J
310Please respect copyright.PENANAfW0YEu5OeK
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.PENANAuemRvg0cQz
310Please respect copyright.PENANAonHkVfoWOV
310Please respect copyright.PENANArEeK9Rb1Vw
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.PENANAAPw3nAfhBS
310Please respect copyright.PENANA9990Fl37XI
310Please respect copyright.PENANA1fd01oZB4o
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.PENANAi2MnswBalL
310Please respect copyright.PENANAbZeAIHGX1u
"Marie" Nicholas yells and goes straight towards her side. Fear is etched all over his face. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAXcBZsfFkyN
310Please respect copyright.PENANAsTocZXKm3Q
310Please respect copyright.PENANAT6tpFj56zh
310Please respect copyright.PENANAysewqeoeSX
310Please respect copyright.PENANAgJ5UBHHFAm
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.PENANAPSltXInTDR
310Please respect copyright.PENANArYBVDUIlX9
310Please respect copyright.PENANARzb2vNscM3
"What in the world could that be?". 310Please respect copyright.PENANAlQZsK3QQJZ
310Please respect copyright.PENANABAmPxJ1ySp
310Please respect copyright.PENANA0q6rpvOlTV
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.PENANAMV3o0BmmCy
310Please respect copyright.PENANAlO7JGBsVn6
310Please respect copyright.PENANALA4xnAyR0R
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.PENANAWpdAIsumss
310Please respect copyright.PENANA4yTvf7bWuK
310Please respect copyright.PENANAt60O3NqoSO
"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.PENANAg9MCD3xE8F
310Please respect copyright.PENANARTthr2Rjus
310Please respect copyright.PENANACm4YrhWIHk
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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.PENANAia0OPDb2oM
310Please respect copyright.PENANAnimFLEeH7N
310Please respect copyright.PENANAXERjxjEHS3
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.PENANAwqmM1yIhvu
310Please respect copyright.PENANAJij4PkWSYM
310Please respect copyright.PENANAQpsehqPr0w
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.PENANAcOJVyTBFa9
310Please respect copyright.PENANAX9fnn7pK7j
310Please respect copyright.PENANAri3GejKr0Q
"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.PENANARgJR325CSJ
310Please respect copyright.PENANAfjmj73T1Jl
310Please respect copyright.PENANAQJmeFECHSj
"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.PENANAStT04joDGI
310Please respect copyright.PENANACETZ5q1Q5g
310Please respect copyright.PENANAi1eVI9fdeA
310Please respect copyright.PENANAsoPOxkmta8
"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.PENANA5QRK3ceaZQ
310Please respect copyright.PENANAevMqA6La26
310Please respect copyright.PENANApKOnFa3R20
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.PENANA8DNxNM3i4O
310Please respect copyright.PENANAATWeFZ6s6F
310Please respect copyright.PENANAupdNGUerYJ
~~~~310Please respect copyright.PENANAwrWujfo9qC
310Please respect copyright.PENANAe8S8qTYh7O
310Please respect copyright.PENANAVTr0iF2QO8
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.PENANAleiyr1UGTY
310Please respect copyright.PENANAcQB60H1aiK
310Please respect copyright.PENANAcb3puRXZQG
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.PENANA0D5UVLHqyw
310Please respect copyright.PENANAO6YJfRAXMk
310Please respect copyright.PENANAONKb8Ji0Z9
As if they lived in darkness and could not, would not see the light. 310Please respect copyright.PENANAftDSxiNMpT
310Please respect copyright.PENANAjMbjSMgZMV
310Please respect copyright.PENANAHsQOwKRGjv
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.PENANACRiXFzLbhu
310Please respect copyright.PENANA84nsg1cHA0
310Please respect copyright.PENANAMM08x1MtA5
"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.PENANAvvzLFTzd48
310Please respect copyright.PENANAKnVQ9D1U8E
310Please respect copyright.PENANAYOcLd0zHpK
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.PENANAYQfKGUb4jf
310Please respect copyright.PENANAAt8BMv5wRF
It been nine years since her corination yet she still will dream about that day.
310Please respect copyright.PENANA8hdVMV3CrW
Tuesday, May, 18, 1793.
310Please respect copyright.PENANAdsdgGPEYVD
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.PENANAgTFrzXaLSZ
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.PENANANAx5h2REWu
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.PENANA1LT36qPk0T
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.PENANAoYxEoye6bf
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.PENANAQpcVP2JxF4
"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.PENANA0jjVKF0BAR
"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.PENANAm552y13DwN
"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.PENANAjVfn0dycPk
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.PENANAWrn1WWG2sN
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.PENANACO4SbTQxFI
310Please respect copyright.PENANAICxTECSzmp
310Please respect copyright.PENANAW38BVObK2g
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.PENANAYATTVML0PW
"What in the world could that be?".
310Please respect copyright.PENANAFdvCDVmBEi
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.PENANAH3OuO6JTkE
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.PENANASQCu17fugm
"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.PENANANUFUAiWP4U
310Please respect copyright.PENANAHAH7JTWEHE
"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.PENANA3lazM3phth
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.PENANA07dqIciQOb
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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