**NOTICE: BRIEF GRAPHIC IMAGERY AHEAD**
[Episode contains mentions of blood, etc.]
[Medical Office]
-- Place him down. Gently now...
-- My goodness!
His eyes felt heavy and he was uncertain of where he laid. Sounds and visions, everything around him was a chaotic blur.
Blood ran down from his back and onto the bed. The fierce whipping had sliced open his flesh and the white linen covering was now being stained red. With long gashes streaking across his back, upon his chest, he lay near unconscious.
Wide eyed, the doctor frantically dabbed at the young man's face and cried out at him in fear
Royal Physician: My Prince?!! Can you hear me?! Stay awake!
And then to his assistants
Royal Physician: Salts! Get the salts!! And the gauze - BRING EVERYTHING NOW!!
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The bed, her skin, her clothing and the Royal Doctor's hands, were all covered in blood. She lay enveloped in sweat. Her body shook and her eyes rolled within her head. It was beyond the pain of regular childbirth and Marie wished for her torture to end, then and there, by means of her death.
For hours into the still night, there were only the moanings, cries and screams of a Queen in absolute agony.
And as she lay; long past exhaustion, the Queen silently wept.
Sometime before sunrise, at long last, her immediate suffering came to an end with her unfortunate babe coming into the world still and lifeless, into the scene and sound of lamentations.
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BLACK ARROW - ACT 1
FantasyACT 1 ~ Alexander; a young prince of the Southern Kingdom, the youngest and often compared to his older brothers because of his failings. With the annual hunt close at hand and having come of age to participate, he finds himself having to disprove t...
