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Chapter 4: A Broken Love Story

They had first met in a little town on the edge of the red sands of Crims, by the Crimson Sea and very close to the old fortress of Salazen Grum, where the Red Queen was rumoured to be gathering an army. He was an ambitious swordsman, and she was an aspiring dressmaker, who sold her wares at the market. The clothes she made were beautiful, unlike anything he'd ever seen before, so he kept returning each day, to see any new creations she'd made. They became good friends quickly, and then progressed to fall deeply in love.

She soon got a job at the dressmaker's in town, while he continued to move up through the ranks of the Red Queen's army. The only barrier between them was his driving ambition to do better. She was perfectly happy and content; her only wish was to marry her soldier and live happily ever after, and continue in her craft, of course. But his duties and job continued to prevent it, and as the Red Queen took a liking to him, he was given promotion after promotion and soon became one of her closest confidantes.

Elzara was not happy with this; she had always loved the gentle White Queen, Mirana of Marmoreal, and they often fought bitterly over it. Elzara started to yearn to see her family again; she had been travelling and staying in distant lands for a couple of years now, and missed them terribly. When she had found out that she was 'in the family way', her mind was made up. As luck would have it, Stayne had told her he had another, important job coming up and he would be absent for weeks. Though her heart clenched at the thought, she told him that she would use that time to visit her family, and had set off a day later, while he had returned to the Red Queen, happy that his love would soon be cheered up, and thankful that she hadn't asked what he would be doing. He felt some shame for hiding things from her, but he consoled himself with the thought that it would lead to only good things for her.

It had taken her a week to reach Witzend; and in that time, Stayne and the Jabberwocky had done the irreparable, the unforgettable, the first in a long line of horrendous crimes that Underland would suffer under the Red Queen's reign.

But the broken, blazing buildings and the burning remains of what had once been one of the largest Clans in Underland were not the only things Ilosovic Stayne left behind on that terrible Horvendush Day. No; in the clearing, trampled and twisted beneath people's feet, scorched and blackened beyond hope or repair, lay the sad remains of a broken Love Story; one whose consequences would change, and save Underland forever.


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