Subject: And complete at 58,580!
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Posted on: 2020-11-30 16:47:16 UTC

With my highest daily wordcount: a full 2749 today. :) And - as might be expected with Bloody Mary as my final protagonist - things have gotten quite dramatically out of hand.


I started slightly at that. "You hardly need more worlds to conquer, your Majesty. Be content with what God has granted you."

"What you have granted me," Charles said. "It was your hand that slew the usurper of Spain, and your armies that slew Francois." He tapped his sword again, pacing a little on the floor. "She has a daughter, you know - Frances, I mean, the daughter of France's widowed queen, who married the Duke of Savoy. Little Jeanne… she is of an age with my own son, my Philip. If I were to… persuade France to accept the Duke as king, in right of his wife, then in a few short years, Philip could be Emperor of Germany and France… Spain and Portugal… much of Italy… and, of course, England."

I struggled to climb from my bed, but Charles' hand was suddenly on my shoulder, holding me in place. "I rule England," I gasped, trying to squirm out of his grip. "It is presumptuous indeed to assume I will have no heirs."

"Such a pity," the emperor said, seemingly to himself. "We were all so hopeful when we found Queen Mary on the field. Alas, it seems that the physics were correct - there was nothing that could be done to save her."

"Wait." I tossed my head, looking about me for anything I might use to defend myself. "I am the Queen. This is my country. You cannot- your soul would be condemned for such treachery!"

"Ah, my dear," Charles said, drawing a short knife from his belt, "my soul was lost long ago." I cried out - saw Queen Elizabeth cold on her bed, my mother's eyes full of sorrow, my true father gasping as he died, Father lying with my spear through his heart - and then the knife came down.


Welcome to the Holy Roman Empire of the European Nation. ^^ ^^ ^_^ If for some reason I decide to write a sequel, Queen Jeanne of England and France (= Lady Jane Grey, though with different male parents) will be one of the protagonists - and the illegitimate daughter of Henry Tudor and Anne Boelyn, a certain girl named Elizabeth, will be another. Goodness knows about the third; she'll probably wind up becoming Pope at the rate this is going.

NaNo is so weird.

hS

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