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Moscow, Russia-Winter of 2008
Moscow's Private Hospital
An elderly, fragile-looking woman laid on a hospital bed, she was surrounded by her family. Her daughter, a beautiful woman with straight dark blonde hair and brown eyes, sat right beside her, holding her hand. The latter was looking at her mother with sadness, the former was scanning the room, her eyes searching for someone who would never be there. Finally, after a few moments of silence, she opened her mouth.
"Natalia...where is she?" her voice was merely a whisper, but everyone in the room knew what she was saying, this, after all, wasn't the first time the woman had asked for whoever Natalia was. "She couldn't be here today Mother, I'm sorry" Everyone in the room, including the woman's daughter, had given up on trying to tell the woman that nobody knew a person named Natalia, at least, no one close to the family.
After spending most of the afternoon talking to the lady, most of the members of the family left; however, Ava, her daughter, decided to stay for the night. It was well past midnight when it happened. The old lady woke up very agitated asking for her daughter, Ava immediately ran to her side.
"I'm here Mother," she said gently, but the her mother wasn't listening to her "My daughter...Natalia...my daughter...I'm sorry" with every word she got weaker until at last her eyes stopped shinning and her heart stopped beating.
Moscow, Russia-Winter of 2008
Romanov mansion
A few weeks had transpired after the death of Anatalya Romanova, her funeral was small, only family members and a few close friends attended. Her body was now resting besides her husband's in the Moscow Cemetery. The rest of the Romanovs were now sitting in the living room, most were angry and disbelieving after finding out that the Romanov Matriarch had left every single of her possessions to her eldest daughter "Natalia Romanov."
"She was delusional, how could she leave everything to someone who doesn't even exist?"
"Shameful indeed"
"What does Ava think of all this?"
"Must be brokenhearted"
Ava Romanov was brokenhearted and angry, but she had also promised herself that she would find Natalia, she would find the woman who monopolized her mother's love.