Chapter One
First Encounter with Death
“Courage can shape a new beginning; combined with
determination you’ll can reach that alternate ending.”
-------Oliria
year 2115 A. D. -----
“Where
is my wife!!?” King Thomas moved rapidly
through the halls with his six year old daughter clutched to his right arm.
Several guards made way for the King whose wife had only minutes to spare.
“Where is she?” he hissed with his blood boiling over, ready to attack anyone
in sight. He traveled a few more steps and soon both he and princess Jinálie
were in front of the cold door that led way to their sick loved one.
When entering, they could see the fading
woman with blood shot eyes, lying hopelessly in the hospital bed. The princess watched
by the door after her father ran over to his wife. Jinálie knew the pale woman was her mother
only because the door had her name assigned. But this woman with tubes running
into her nose was somehow a stranger in her eyes.
The life-support machine whined, giving
the room an irritating presence. Jinálie suspended her mind from reality as she
approached the figure in the bed and reached out to her mother’s weakened
hands. Those hands which once held her firmly when she took her first steps could
now barely move.
Princess Jinálie leaned over, forcing
herself into the Queen’s line of vision. The Queen’s eyes opened and she looked
into her daughter’s startled face. Jinálie couldn’t bear seeing the woman with
the world’s most lively soul perish.
A tear escaped from Jinálie’s eye and landed
on her mother’s hand. The Queen looked at her daughter with intensity and said
weakly, “Take my locket from my neck, it will guide you through life.” Jinálie
shook her head while backing away from the bed and holding on to the edge of a
table. The Queen saw the pain in her daughter’s eyes and signaled King Thomas to
help take off the silver locket.
“Here take this,” the Queen murmured,
“And promise me when you become Queen to trust both your heart and mind.”
Jinálie nodded meekly and went over to grab
the locket. “I promise to make Oliria prosperous just don’t leave me!” Jinálie
shouted with endless tears flying out her eyes. At the strike of the tenth hour the Queen released
Jinálie’s hand and said her final words, “Know that I love you and you will
always be my Jinálie.”
Soon the beeping of the machine was no more.
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