p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="40beae77f7189379bb75e9e5ee8e3ecb"The king and queen had just announced that they had a baby on the way. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"(A/N Terrible starting sentence)/spanThis was especially good news. For the queen had been told she was sterile and couldn't bear children. This fact was known throughout the kingdom, and the announcement caused some to feel troubled. Let me explain./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="7f58d0c4ab526833a45999813555fcf5"Most everyone thought the unborn prince or princess would obtain some kind of magical ability, and it made most worship the queen more. But, there's always a bad side. Some -very few- believed that the queen was something em style="box-sizing: border-box;"evil/emspan style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;", /spanlike a em style="box-sizing: border-box;"witch /emor em style="box-sizing: border-box;"demon/emspan style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;",/span and they attempted to kill the queen thinking killing something so evil would rid the kingdom of all its grievances. Spoiler; they were wrong./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="a94acccab5fef0e7d30ac8dea60c4970"One night a woman entered the palace telling the guards she was a well-wisher coming with gifts for their majesties. This woman, known as Gothel, was a friend to the king and Queen and was for many years prier to this moment. She lured Queen Arianna away so that they were alone in a room together, and when she looked away, slit her throat. She disappeared and they couldn't find her for many days./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="8ba6a737363d3621dbd48ba56a731a3b"This is where it gets weird, The child was born many hours after Queen Arianna's Death. Yeah, that's right the same child who, at this point in time, would've only been a four-week-old fetus in her mother's womb. She was born with beautiful Golden hair, much longer than an average newborns, and the exact same eyes as her mother. This child was Rapunzel, and once the kingdom knew of her they made sure to do everything they could to get rid of her, obviously this was highly irregular. The night the king agreed to get rid of the young Rapunzel was the night Gothel returned. She offered to take the child and the king, who at this point was desperate to get rid of her, agreed./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="55d38c99e3a2ce4e6108a851e1629e5b"Gothel brought the young Rapunzel to her home in Old Corona, where she would spend the next eighteen years of her life being raised as a style="box-sizing: border-box;" /br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="46e003398310a423274f3a5617c6da99"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Pretty short though :|/span/p