Arc 1 - Marie the Lonely- I won't bother you

”Royal Consort Eleanora Baumé Bainbridge ! The Emperor has pronounced that you have committed grave crimes upon the Royal Families bloodline! You will confront death today!” The Servant read off of the long parchment, guards encompassed the man as they remained in a straight line prepared to drag the woman from the spot.

Eleanora gazed at the men with upset and alarmed eyes, her heart felt as though it was never again beating, what had reverberated against her ears couldn’t have been right!

“T-That isn’t valid! I could never harm his Majesties kids!” She yelled urgently

The Head Servant sneered and folded the scroll over into it’s encased structure, his sharp eyes scowled at the young woman as she trembled in dread. “Take her...” He said with an insidious tone

The guards started to step over to Eleanora as she was still in shock while sitting on her bed

They brutally snatched her wrists and started to haul her out of the room “STOP!!! IT WASN’T ME! I DIDN’T DO IT!” She kept on battling against the regal protects as she suffocated in her distress.

They pulled her out of the large graceful lounging room from outside, her screams echoed throughout the palace “PLEASE!!! IT WASN’T ME I SWEAR I AM BEGGING YOU TO TELL HIS MAJESTY!!” Eleanora continued to beg for her life as they dragged her across the hard stone

The Empress watched with a wicked smile “Oh how I’ve waited so long for her to die...” her smile grew wider as she looked from above on the elegant balcony. Royal Consort Jade stood beside her with the same awful smile.

“Let’s hurry and leave to witness her death” The Empress spoke with no shame,

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Here I was

Going to die

I didn’t anticipate that this would occur

Maybe I did..

“Eleanora, I cherished you beyond all doubt but you just couldn’t have enough? That you resort to killing my children?! What else did you want!!!?” The Emperor yelled uproariously, tears were tumbling down my face.

Watching the expression he made hurt my heart..

“I-I-I didn’t do it...I swear..” This was all that I could muster at this point, it was too hard for me to speak

I had no strength, my hands were tied to a rope tightly to the point of purple bruises shaping across my wrists.

The rope also was entangled around my neck

I could barely breathe

I was standing on a box that would be removed and I would choke to death...

“You liar!” He hollered once more

Everything I could see was his eyes...his eyes with such frightful agony

Indeed, even in my perishing minutes, I wanted to comfort him..

On the off chance that no one but me could see what was behind him...a group of glad ladies and their kids who jumped at the chance to see me bite the dust...

Ah..life

“Expel her”

To say that I could sum up my life in five words...it would be

An unfilled ton of hurt

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[My migraines are so bad..]

[Am I dead at this point? I’m certain that is right..oh god choking to death was the worst!]

I opened my eyes just to locate a brown canopy

[WAIT WHAT!!!]

I checked my neck and my arms to discover nothing wounded,

“I am back in the palace..where I originally started off..”

....

“DID I TRAVEL BACK IN TIME???” I scratched my head in endeavors to trust it wasn’t true

How is this possible?

“I am so confused at right now,” I said in a slight murmur gazing at the mirror that was put before the bed. My features were youthful and quite beautiful. I was around 20 at this time, and the emperor was 29.

“I surmise this implies I’m back to the point of when I had the lowest status...which happens to be Noble Wife”

While being an honorable spouse I didn’t get much attention from the Emperor, which implies I didn’t get pampered as much...

“This is an absolute disaster...If I’m wearing this shabby pink dress this must’ve been the day I entered the palace...or the East side where it’s everything messy and foul” I stood up “Wh-!” just to fall on the dusty floor

[Definitely the after-shock of dying...] I laid there for a minute

I don’t want to be in the palace...

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Eleanora murmured as she gazed at herself in the dresser mirror. Her hair was an exquisite hazy light brown and her eyes were a shade of splendid green.

“Looking at myself in the mirror like this is startling..” She talked delicately as her long hair hung over her right shoulder

“I need to dodge the Emperor as much as possible...which will be very simple considering he just visits...once...”

She stood up rapidly in anguish nearly tumbling onto the floor once more “Crud...I gotta move slowly..”

She brought down herself back onto the corroded dresser seat “Okay...RIGHT! He’ll be here in two days which means I have to figure out how to maintain a strategic distance from that man..”

Eleanora sat in the seat with empty thoughts

“I’m lost and I have no I-...That’s it I’ll pretend to be crazy!” She clapped her hands together with content with her acknowledgment

Despite the fact, her hands before long fell into her lap and a sorrowful expression showed up on her face.

[“After this, I would’ve met the Emperor’s Children..though they never became fond of me...In fact, they grew up to resent and hate me because the Emperor gave me as much attention than them...One of many things I’m starting to regret from my past is the fact that I knew the children were suffering but instead, I pretended to not notice, now I promise to love and treat them right”]

She sighed noisily, [“I genuinely don’t have the foggiest idea on how I lived in here... it never was as I envisioned it”] she got up off the seat and her legs trembled a little she held onto the corroded seat in hopes to stand steady.

Eleanora strolled forward and backward to become accustomed to walking again.

She grinned somewhat as the trembling in her legs stopped

“Its a start I guess!”

[“I should actually start improving myself...I used to not have any great skills but my beauty, I was so gullible..at least I learned some things but I was never fit to be here anyway”]

Eleanora laughed in a light dismal tone

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