The two three year olds toddled between the thick oaken table legs at which a young couple was meeting with a single woman. Legal documents were sprayed all across the table as the single man sat with a pen behind his ear, frowning as he read a paper. The single woman sat in front of him, she was biting her lip and staring at the man with a extremely nervous expression obviously displayed on her face. The other woman in the room stood behind her husband and was gripping his shoulder, reading the document through narrowed eyes. Finally, shaking his head, the man looked up at the woman sitting before him.

"No," the man said plainly in a booming voice.

"But please," the woman started crying, "understand the shame that has been brought upon me, have you no pity?"

"I will not take in your bastard girl just because she could become the Governor of Munchkinland someday," the man continue sternly.

Wiping tears from her eyes, the woman looked at the man with fierce anger in eyes that were a puffy red from crying. Suddenly, the woman lunged forward and hooked onto the man's arm, knocking them to the floor. The wife of the man held the two children back from the commotion, with a look of distain on her face because of one of the arms she was gripping.

"Karfen, you'll do this or your wife will know how you made one of your maids impure," she hissed in his ear.

Fearfully, Karfen looked back at the the woman who had dragged him to the floor.

"Melena, always getting her way from a man," he said in a deep voice, quiet enough so his wife didn't hear.

That struck one of Melena's nerves as she held a fountain pen out to Karfen. Hesitantly, Karfen signed his name, sealing the unwanted deal.

Several years later after Melena's death, this document was pushed to the back of her desk and completely forgotten about till one of the original three year olds, a now grown up girl found it completely by chance.