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Chapter 11

     While we are waiting inside the elevator, the manager asks me, "How was your trip, Ms. Clark?" I smiled and said, "It is fine, but I don't think I know you. Have I?" He scratches the back of his head and said, "No, we don't but my boss always remind me that, if someone tells the name of Athena Clark, we should never forget it. And, by that, I remember your name." "Is that so, then, can I ask your name?" I said smiling, then the manager clean himself and give me his hand for a handshake, "I am George Samuel ma'am." I laugh at his reaction and shake his hand, then I ask the hotel clerk, "How about you young man, I mean how about you?" The hotel clerk laughs at my question and said, "Well, I am Anton, Anton Jackson ma'am." I also shake his hand, then he suddenly asks, "Ma'am can I ask you a question?" 

      I look at the manager and to him, "What is it?" "Well..." he scratches his head and looks down, "Don't worry, I'll try to answer your question." Then the manager said, "Anton, ask what you want to know, don't waste Ms. Athena's time." "Don't worry about it, I am here to find a job and I have plenty of time, what is it that you want to ask?" Anton then looks at me and asks, "Well ma'am, are you somehow related to the late Queen?" then he looks at the picture of the queen and me in the elevator. I laugh at his question and both the manager and he look at each other, then I replied, "Maybe, maybe not. Who knows? But I will assure you the Queen is a great Queen who ruled before." The elevator opens and I smiled at both of them leaving first outside the elevator. After they help me in my room, I lie in my bed and look at the ceiling. 

     In the ceiling, I see paintings, it tells what happened before after I die, and woke up again. After the battle between the King and I, and the part where I got shot by the arrow. The empire falls and the Britrain conquer our Kingdom. But because of what I have done, the commoner praises my ruling and acknowledges me as one of their late Queen. While the three wives of the King and their children were thrown out of the palace and became simple commoners. After that, all the soldiers of Bretramia will either die or become the Britrain's loyal guards. 

    The Britrain became the most powerful kingdom and is known as England today. After the paintings, I also remember my past, as I die beside the King, and after the war, I wake up again. I know I died, but I don't understand it before, I check my heart and only saw a scar, then I found my King beside me. I know the King has not been very kind to his people but they should never leave him here. So, as I remove my armor, I change my clothes by getting the commoner's clothes. I started to dig the ground with my hands when something moves into the bushes, "Who are you? Come out, now!" 

     I get my sword and was ready to attack when someone familiar came out of the bushes. "My Queen? How?" I look into it and it was Robert, "Who? Me? I am not the Queen." I lied, I don't know why but, maybe because they will also believe that I am a witch. Then, Robert walks towards me, "No, you are the Queen. Then, why are you here, if you are not?" As he walks towards me, he saw what I am doing. "What is this? How are you still alive? I saw you got shot by the arrows?" I cannot lie anymore and said, "Alright, yes, I am the Queen, and you are also right about me being dead. But here I am alive and well." He is about to ask more questions, but I stop him, "Please, I don't know why I am still alive, but please can you keep this a secret between us? No one should know I am still alive, or you shall be killed with your family, and I will die again." He looked directly into my eyes and said, "Alright, my queen. I will honor your request."

      After our conversation, he helped me bury the King and the rest of the soldiers. "Thank you for helping me." I said smiling, "This is a pleasure, your highness." "Please, I am not the Queen anymore, and of course, no one should know my name, so call me... Alisha" "Alisha... that is a nice name, my Queen. I mean Alisha." Then, after we left the area, we walked together and I ask him about their new home, "Where is your new home now, Robert?" "Actually, my..." 

    I looked at him and he scratch his head, "Right, Alisha, actually, after we leave here, we have an underground home to protect us from war, we prepared it just in case it happened and it was and we use it there." "Right, that is a good plan. But, about my stay... people will recognize me, I have to go somewhere else." "No, Alisha, you need us, please, I will protect you, my family will protect you as a gratitude to save us." I would like to decline, but I see in his eyes that he wants to help me, "Alright, I'll stay." We already came to the place of their hiding spot, and he give me his balaclava, to hide my face. People are looking in our direction and I tried to hide my face. "Don't worry, Alisha, I am here, I will protect you." Robert said, and I whisper in his ears, "Thank you."

     In the end, we already got into their house. His wife and children came to greet us, then I remove the cover from my face and greet his family, "It is nice meeting your family, Robert." I smiled, but Robert's family was in shock and bow down to me. "Please, stand up. I am not the Queen; I am not a royal." I lied, but his family still doesn't believe my lie and Robert laugh at me, "What?" I spoke. "You should learn how to lie, my Queen. People will not believe in your lie." Robert said, "Right!" I said, then I look at his wife and children again, "My apology, for the lie, but I have to hide here for now and not be recognized by any of the commoners will that be all right?" Robert's wife agreed with the children beside her. "Thank you." Then, Robert said, "Alisha, would you like to rest first? We have been walking for a while?" I smiled at him and said, "Is that right? Well, it is nice meeting your family Robert, I will go rest for a while." The children wave at me and I follow Robert. 

       After I sleep, I go out of the bedroom and look at what Robert's wife is doing, "Shall I help you?" Robert's wife looks at me surprised and said, "There is no need my Queen, I can do it myself." I sigh and walk towards her and sit next to her, "Please, Alisha would be fine, and could I ask, what is your name?" Robert's wife still panics, but tries to calm down, "Uhm, just call me Margaret, my Queen, I mean Alisha." "Margaret, what a beautiful name. How about your children? What are their names?" I ask. 

      Then, the children, walk towards us and introduce their selves, "It is a pleasure to meet you our Queen, I am Stepan." The oldest son of Robert looks the same as him. "A pleasure to meet you too, your highness, I am Lucas." The second son of Robert, a jolly man. "I am Theodore, my Queen." The youngest son of Robert and Margaret, he seems to be a warrior when he grows up. "Well, nice meeting you all, no need for calling about my title but just call me, Alisha." "Alisha." The three boys try to call me that way. Then, I look at Margaret and said, "Please, just talk to me casually there is no need to respect me anyways." I said sadly. I don't know why this is happening, but if I don't figure out what is happening to me, I might live like this forever.