Innocence

prologue

The earth had been gone for many years; people now live on a planet called ‘New Earth’. In this new world, the people went back to having kings and queens. Also they reverted back to the old ways of the kingdoms. Now there were many different rulers, but out of all of them there were two rulers that stood out the most. These two rulers thought to join their kingdoms by marriage.

                The Delong family had two twin sons and two daughters, one by birth and one they had found on their door step. They never tried to find the mother of the baby on their door step. They loved this baby as much as they loved their own daughter. The two daughters grew up thinking that they were related by birth until the youngest found out otherwise. This never bothered her but she knew that people would hate her for it. So, time went on and they all grew up to be a very happy family and kingdom. The sons learned to be great leaders and the daughters prepared to become wives of very powerful people by the age of eleven. The eldest was married to their neighbor (this neighbor was the one who stood out the most).

                Now the youngest was married to a powerful lord to the north of them. This lord wasn’t every nice to her, though she tried to hide it. He just wanted to fight and cause wars with his neighboring rulers. Then at last he died in one of his raids. Now, since she was only twelve years old, they thought to marry her to another lord. This happened gain one more time all with the same type of men, abusive and uncaring. She never told her parents that she was abused and that she wasn’t happy. The only person she told was her sister with the promise that she would never tell even her husbands.

                The eldest daughter had always by child. She even would catch the slightest cold. So when she became sick they all thought she would get better. So when she didn’t they got really worried. A few months later she died in her sleep. They had her funeral two days after in the Indian way. A year has gone by, and this is where our story begins.