DESPAIR

In the hallway way of the Royal Palace of the Marcovian empire a young boy is spotted running, on his body was a royal garment fit for a prince, his eyes filled with excitement and joy as they sparked.

As he approached the room he sighted his father at the entrance of the room,  his excitement grew more and in a loud voice he shouted"Father, Father is that my little brother", in such a happy and excited tone only to be met by silence and a stone cold face.

Sinbad with sadness and bitterness in his heart could not bring himself to tell his son what happened no matter how he tried, his son seeing what happening his heart beat faster and fear went though his body,  he shivered and wanted to know what happened, seeing this is the first time his father has behaved in this manner he proceeded to enter the room but Sinbad stretched out his hand and covered the entrance of the room with the large coat blocking his son from entering the room.

His son standing there right in his front asked him" Father what is the meaning of this?, I want to go see mother let me pass " Sinbad stared into his son's eye', he was not sure how his second son Anthony was going to take the News, since he has always been someone driven by his emotions and not his mind, he then proceeded to speak but before he could speak he was by interrupted by the loud and sharp voice of Anthony, "Mother!!!!, Mother!!!!" he shouted Sinbad couldn't bear seeing his son like this he lowered his hands from the entrance and walked away, before he left he stopped at the back of his son and wispherd to him,"when you enter that room what you will see, is is " unable to complete his sentence he hastened his movement and left.

Anthony left standing there with the worst possible ideas in his mind of what is going on, he wore a mixed expression of worry,confusion and fear,he swallowed down all of it and went forward as he stepped forward with every step he took more ominous than the last until he stepped foot in the room, his eyes sighted the bed and upon it was the corpse of his mother, it layed there as the maid's in the room cleaned up the blood he was shocked his eyes wide open as he Shaked in fear, his body became unstable and he kept reapting the word" Mother" his knees quaked as he fell down to the ground, he couldn't even shed a single tear,  it was as if his heart stopped the sound of his fall altered the maids who were in the room cleaning the corpse of the late queen.

One of the maid's shouted " My Lord are you okay " , she and other maids were worried and so they wanted to assist the Prince,  but they were all stopped by the senior maid who was responsible for the delivering of the baby she said nothing but in her mind she knew that this was a pain he had to go through,  and he should be at least be given a moment with his mother, even if it's just a corpse in front of him, she felt great pain for him as she too had once felt this type of pain, the pain of losing someone so close to you that is a literal part of your soul, a type of pain no one wants to feel for this pain is the pain of the heart the greatest pain of all, because it makes us who we are in life.

As Anthony stared at his mother corpse from afar he began to move, as he dragged his knees on the floor made out of  marble, his knees scraped on it as blood gushed out but to him the pain he felt was nothing, it was almost as if he could not feel pain anymore,  he reached near the side of the bed and grabbed his mother's hand,  when he touched her body it was as cold as ice,  he brought her hands close to his chest as his hands shivered,  he held it as one would hold something of great value something worth even more than their own life as he held her hands he remembered the good and bad times they had together with the entire family, including his little and elder brother.

He remembered the events of one night when the entire family were outside star gazing, every body had fell asleep except him and his mother, his mother while drunk that night asked him an odd question "what is the most important thing about a person", he replied " A person's life of course, because when you're alive you are meaningful and can accomplish your goals, but when you're dead your gone all your dreams dead and you become a thing of the past" his mother laughed out loud and countered what he said,  saying "A person's life is memories, we may die but we still live on in the memories of those that we are connected to, as long as we are not forgotten we are alive, and those with  memories of us  can continue our lives for us by accomplishing our goals and dream's", as these memories flowed through his mind it tore him apart from the inside,  that he could no longer contain the emotions bureing inside him.

He screamed aloud his voice so loud and depressing that his majesty, who was along the stairs which leads to his royal chambers he stoped and turned back at where his coming from,  he already knew that this was how this was going to Play out since Anthony has always been one with lack of control for his emotions, he felt sad for his son knowing that there was nothing he could do to reverse what has happened.

  He turned his back and kept moving forward as one would do when they leave their parents, only that this time he left his son to bare the pain and suffering on his own, he taught of himself as irresponsible but the truth is that he served a greater purpose that of the corwn, as he that bears the crown must bare the fate of solitude.

Suddenly light foot steps reached the entrance of the room who could it be.

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