p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"span style="font-family: Impact;" /spanspan style="font-family: Syncopate;" /spanspan style="font-family: Corsiva;" THE PROBLEM/span/p
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p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;" CHAPTER ONE/p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;" It has been three months since Maxon and I said our "I dos" and gosh being a queen is hard work. Now I understand why Maxon was so busy all the time. Right now/p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"is my only free time for the next six hours. I am enjoying my view of the garden from my balcony when all of a sudden a maid, I believe her name tag said Beverly,/p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"came running to me. Her curtsy is fast and not typical. I know something is wrong. Beverly says " Your majesty there is a problem in the business room they say they/p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"need you right away."/p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"At that I burst into a half run half jog to the fourth floor business room. As I walk in I see Maxon, Camden, the national accountant for the country, and Mr. August Illea./p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"As I walk in they stand./p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"" No need." I reply to the action./p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;""Now what is the problem?"/p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"Maxon tenses, stands up and takes a deep breath before the words come out. "The southern rebels have gotten all of the eights to help work with them."/p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;""What?" I ask astonished./p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;""It seems that the southern rebels want to persuade people that if they overthrow the throne that they will get better lives." Mr. Illea says while sitting back down./p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;""Maxon, I thought you said the work on dissolving the castes were in action, why would eights out of all the castes be the ones that would be doing this. They are the/p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"only ones moving up a caste." I reply in the most calm voice ever./p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;""Well it seems most eights believe that the castes dissolving will not be useful." Maxon replies./p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"The second after he says that my watch goes off signalling that I have a meeting to attend./p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;""I am sorry gentlemen, but I must go I have a meeting with the french ambassador, please excuse me." Even though I want to hear more I am kind of glad to get out of/p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"there./p
p style="widows: 2; orphans: 2; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"The whole meeting I am thinking to myself how could this have happened?/p