Run Away With Me
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Last published Fri, Oct 26, 2018
"She's a beauty. Look at how pale she is. Come on son choose her."
Based off of the painting The Babylonian Marriage Market by Edwin Long, follow Dimitri Fresch an upper-classman in the search of the most beautiful women that he is to marry.
"Come one come all! Here we have our finest, the palest and beautiful women here tonight!"
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I mean not to harm or offend anyone in this story. I have tried not to make any racial slurs in it but the story itself is set in an era where such slurs were common. I know I am possibly risking getting foul comments by posting this story but I feel as if the historical factor needs to be known. Everything mentioned is based in the Victorian Era (1800) therefore all language will be alike what it was back then. Thank you.
Bit of History- The Babylonian Marriage Market is an 1875 painting by the British painter Edwin Long of young women being auctioned into marriage.
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After a bad war, the kingdom of riverflood was trying hard to scramble to their feet. When their king Apollo had a flower parasite that injected from his right eye, the kingdom worried if their king is dying. For as the flower didn't bother him, and it is fairly friendly, it only bothered is eye sight. Still the kingdom was scared that one day the flower would end up killing him in the end. With him being the only Arkan left, what would become of the Arkan throne? Without him being married and of no son to take over his spot, what would bece of the little kingdom? To only add to their troubles, word had been going around that a prisoner of war had gotten lose. No matter what, she couldn't get away. She was captured again and brought to the Kings heed. Instead of killing her outright, he bought her life and turned her into a maid. She gets along great with all the other workers. Well almost all of them. Because she wasn't from their kingdom, most avoided talking to her. While she loved staying at the castle, she didn't like one part. Her feelings. While staying at the castle, she began to fall for the cold yet charming king Apollo. What will happen when she finds out that one night between the two, could end up changing their life's forever? Guess you're going to have to read to find out! Finished: march 29, 2017 Edit finished:
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