Aurora
June 1489 PD
I can hardly breathe as I write this. My son, my third son, my baby, did not make it. He was early, a few weeks so, and was weak when born. He passed on only two mere hours after his birth. This was only two days ago, and now is the first time I feel able to pick up the pen. Randy suggested it, actually, in hopes it might help me.
There's this hole in my chest. It strangles me, and this is what killed my mother. Lia doesn't know, but she had a twin of her own. A sister, one who died in little over a month of her life. Her name was Selene Celeste (40), as my mother liked naming her daughters after the sun and moon. Losing Selene was the start of my mother's sickness. The official story is different. She died of a broken heart, not a heart attack. I was very young when she passed, only five, little Lia only four, but her friend, Madam Violet (27) told me when I grew older and started asking questions.
I don't want to become my mother in this. She wasted away for four years, and then left this life. I lost my baby, whom Randy and I named Orion Wilikin, but I still have two little boys to care for. They need their mother, and I refuse to leave them.
Annotations:
27) Madam Violet: A servant woman who passed soon after Princess Aurora's vanishing. She was personal maid of the late Queen Aurora Aulelia, and after her passing, Madam Violet became the personal maid of Princesses Aurora and Aulelia.
40) Selene Celeste: Princess Selene Celeste Gedonelune was the older twin of Princess Aulelia. Her existence was not known to the public, as she died within a month of her birth and the royal children are not officially announced until they reach a year old.