Miraculous Ever After

Tragedy Hits the Kingdom

The horses abruptly came to a stop, the yelling of the guards suddenly gone quiet.

Wide green eyes peered into the vast darkness of the carriage. A mother's warm embrace wrapping around her son.

A tap on the door turns to pounding. Wood ripping from it's hinges. The thief's strong grasp drags the mother away from her child. The young boy cries at the sound of a blade. The forest was left in silence once more.

Red, red was all the boy sees, red turns back to black. Sliding. The carriage lifts, the boy hits the side wall.

Falling.

Falling.

Crash.

The boy hits his head, and loses his sense of time.

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A girl in the field, daisies blooming around the skirt of her dress. She twirls, giggles escaping her. Laughter cut short when she spots him. The boy with blonde hair stained red.

She runs to him, screaming for him to get up. And yet he does not respond. Her yells draw the attention of others who come to help.

The boy is safe now, in the arms of another who will fill the void left in his heart by his mother.

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A knight in shinning armor at the scene of a crime. The dirt beneath his feet washed clean by the rain.

A carriage smashed to bits at the bottom of a hill. No sign of the boy but his mother is still here.

She lay limp at the stump of a tree. Stripped of all wealth by the bandit they call death.

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A once mighty king sits on his throne. Two empty ones beside him. On the right his beloved wife and on the left his dashing son. Both are gone.

Taken by a thief, a bandit of the night. Who played judge, jury, and executioner on his heart. The king swore to get revenge for his beloved.

He swore never to let love in again.

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A farmer's surprise when the baker knocked on his door. A young boy in arm, white bandages wrapped his head. The baker could not house him but the farmer could feed his hunger.

A new son to tend to the land.