Part Three: Army from the West

## April 9, 1907

Intro:

*It's been two days since the incident at the Petrovna's Charity Ball, and for most of Karoleva it seems like it never even happened. No one has really mentioned the event since, and no statement has been released by the Petrovna Family. In fact, the Petrovna's haven't announced much since the night of the ball, except that Grand Duchess Charlotte took quite ill that same night.*

*That's the official story, and no one knows the truth except the Petrovna's and the Royal Guard. They're trying to keep it quiet, though that never seems to last long in Karoleva.*

### Juste's Audience with Nikolai

**Juste** scans **Charlotte's** journal again and sketches a picture of his sister in the last page with "Mira Renon" on the bottom. Then grabs a pole and strapped on his weapons and leaving the tavern

**Charlotte** does nothing of note because i'm still not reading

**Lisbeth** watches the weaponry make it's way to the wood and then goes to the markets.

**Nikolai** sits on his throne and looks out among the palace.

(Thrones are only used during official events, King don't chill out on their throne)

**Charlotte** does nothing i'm writing down

**Lisbeth** is at the market buying fruit and eyes **Charlotte**

**Charlotte** does something

**Lisbeth** and **Lilly** walk down the alley from the market

**Dormin** gets information on his militia and writes to bring 200 men to **Belinksy**

**Nikolai** eats candy at the window

**Lisbeth** walks **Lilly** to a dress shop and shops

**Justin** pacing the market places in plain clothing to find **Charlotte**

**Lisbeth** buys **Lilly** a blue dress

**Charlotte** does nothing of note

**Lisbeth** runs to find **Lilly.**

**Lilly** plays with a kitten

**Nikolai** eats candy while thinking

**Juste** walk outside of the **Palace** and holds up the pole with a white flag and demands an audience with **Nikolai**

**Nikolai** watches outside his window and goes outside and asks what the hell he was doing

**Lisbeth** watches

**Charlotte** watches

**Juste** said they should talk

**Nikolai** asks why he massacred his guards and why he cleaned out the vault of money and what he wants

**Lisbeth** takes **Lilly** to watch

**Charlotte** watches

**Isabella** is informed of the situation and runs out into the courtyard in her nightgown

(Ok, I feel like Isabella should have put on a dress. It's very indecent for her to out in a nightgown and it wouldn't be proper for her future subjects to see her what would be considered basically nude)

**Juste** said he didn't take the money and then said he did it all for revenge and tells **Isabella** good morning

**Nikolai** signals guards to protect **Isabella** and asks who robbed the vault and why he wants revenge

**Juste** says he has not idea and said he was tired of rotting in a cell and of wearing a mask

**Isabella** acknowledges him

**Nikolai** said he took the mask, no one imposed it on you.

(Though Nikolai doesn't know about the cover up)

**Lisbeth** watches and listens

**Juste** said the mask if how he survived and isolation is enough to drive people mad

**Isabella** watches

**Nikolai** is shocked that he was the reason his family stayed alive (there we go)

**Juste** says that his sister have much explaining and Maria should answer. Then sets the helmet of the guard he killed down and hands **Nikolai Charlotte's** journal.

**Isabella** watches

**Nikolai** apologizes

**Lisbeth** seees **Lilly** standing next to **Charlotte**

**Juste** says his apology is unnecessary and they have a game to play and that **Maria** can explain

**Nikolai** walks back into the palace and sends for a servant to **Maria**

**Juste** pulls out a large bag of cons and throws them into the air.

**Charlotte** does nothing of note

**Lisbeth** walks with **Lilly** to the tavern

**Maria** goes to see **Nikolai**

**Nikolai** asked what **Juste** talked to her about the other day

**Maria** says she was going to tell him

**Nikolai** says before or after hell froze over and half of the elite guards are dead. He tells her he is disappointed in her and **Isabella**.

**Dormin** watched the exchange and goes to find **Lisbeth**

### Dormin Prepares for the War

**Lisbeth** takes **Lilly** back to the tavern and tells her she's never taking her to the markets again.

**Malenkov** laughs and says they have plenty of time to do **Dormin's** bidding

**Maria** says **Isabella** had nothing to do with it and says she didn't tell him because **Charlotte** seemed more important and she didn't want to worry her more

**Juste** walks through the streets and notices four men following him

**Nikolai** throws down the journal and helmet and says it's his job to worry and says it was **Charlotte's** choice to leave the palace and asks **Maria** if she knows how much danger they are in

**Juste** fights and kills the men

**Lisbeth** asks why it's so hard to live a good life

**Malenkov** asks how has she not had a good life

**Charlotte** decides to be a dumb bitch and talk to **Juste**

**Juste** turns to her and asks what brings her to the streets

**Charlotte** says she's running from her problems

**Juste** says running from your problems doesn't rid of them and talks about a game.

**Charlotte** asks what game

**Juste** holds the gun of barrel out to **Charlotte** and says game of death in Karolevian

**Charlotte** says that she doesn't play games

**Juste** said **Maria** said almost the same thing

**Charlotte** says they both don't like shooting people

**Maria** tells **Nikolai** that she knows that and said **Juste** cornered her in the library during the **Charity Ball** and told him about his time in jail and how it changed him.

**Nikolai** asked what he meant by game

**Juste** said **Maria** said that to and aims the gun at her head and asks what questions she has for him.

**Charlotte** says she doesn't have any and tells him to go ahead and shoot her

**Juste** pulls her closer to him and puts the gun under her chin and pulls the trigger and it doesn't fire and tells her he can not oblige her.

**Charlotte** said she wanted to see if he would do it

(TF are you talking about Charlotte)

**Juste** touches her chin with his thumb and says the game is just starting

**Maria** tells him what happened in the library and that she couldn't shoot him and the gun was empty anyway

**Charlotte** asks how you win

**Juste** said that one that writes a journal that holds her dark side should be able to answer

**Nikolai** is mad because she didn't pull the trigger and tells **Maria** to get out

(Nikolai is really upset because Maria refused to shoot someone?)

**Maria** says **Juste** is going to burn the world down around us and kill everyone and isn't going to stop until someone does

**Charlotte** asked how he knew about that

(I am really hating my freshman year self right now)

**Juste** said he found it in her room

**Nikolai** says that's what he plans to do and apologizes to **Maria** and needs to think of the next step

**Charlotte** asks where the journal is

**Dormin**  goes to the train station to find a crate of trinitrotoluene and tells his men to take them. Then to the tavern and into the bar.

**Juste** said it's currently with her brother

**Maria** apologizes to **Nikolai** and goes to her room

**Dormin** sees **Lisbeth** and goes to her

**Nikolai** writes down a plan and screams and cries

**Lisbeth** told **Dormin** she did what he asked and the shipments are being sent to the militia

**Charlotte** asks if you win by surviving

(no shit Charlotte)

**Juste** says you win by killing me

**Charlotte** says that sounds great

(Why did I write Charlotte like this)

**Maria** reads **Charlotte** journal, changes, and gets **Nikolai's** revolver and leaves the palace

**Nikolai** ordered a guard to send guards to find **Juste** and **Charlotte** and the palace to be on high security and no one is allowed in or out without permission. Also, a servant tot bring chocolate cake.

**Lilly** sneaks out of the tavern and into an alleyway

**Juste** leaves **Charlotte** and goes back to the tavern

**Dormin** asks if **Lisbeth** is prepared

(Does Lisbeth not realize that hers or Lilly's safety are in deep danger is Espana goes to war and takes over Karoleva? Like their safety is not guaranteed. The Petrovna's might be off the throne but I highly doubt the Emperor would be better)

**Lisbeth** says she's been ready

**Lilly** and goes into the palace gardens

(How did Lilly get into the gardens? Also Maria already unlocked the gate)

**Dormin** tells **Lisbeth** to go to the warehouse district and find a man in a black coat and hat in a pub called the **Silver Wench** and tell him the "Sparrows fall in Spring" and run like hell.

**Lisbeth** goes to the tavern, tells the man, and runs.

**Lilly** does nothing of note

**Maria** walks through the streets

**Charlotte** leaves and goes to find a tavern

**Malenkov** goes to get **Lilly** and find she isn't there.

**Lilly** is looking at roses and cries

### The War Starts

**Scar** went down the street when **Lisbeth** told him the code word into a warehouse and lights a lighter in a man's hands and an extended fuse and the bomb detonates

**Dormin** hears the blast and tells one of his men to wait and to show no mercy and follow the plan.

**Lisbeth** smiles when she hears the blast

**Nikolai** hears the explosion and asks the guard what was that and tells him to get the army.

**Lilly** hears the blast and ignores it and runs of the gates into the streets

**Charlotte** does nothing of note

**Juste** goes to the bell tower and watches the smoke.

**Nikolai** is told by a guard he's doing his best. He grabs the guard by his helmet and says that's not good enough and he wants every man out there and yells for **Maria**

**Lilly** cowers in the corner of an alley

**Charlotte** runs away from the guards

The armed militia and stand in the plaza in front of the palace

**Charlotte** passes out for some reason

**Maria** ducks into an alley and sees **Lilly** and asks if she is okay and if she needs help

**Steve,** a rebel officer, taking out royal guards

**Lilly** tells **Maria** she's scared and asked her for help.

**Malenkov** searches for **Lilly**

**Steve** fights the guards and practicals rolled a cart up against the gate and a man gives **Steve** a box and ignites the crate. The gate is destroyed and they charge inside.

**Nikolai** watches the chaos and punches a mirror and tells a guard to find who is causing all this

(Nikolai is terrifying sometimes)

**Charlotte** is carried back into the palace and a guard announces her discovery

**Nikolai** tells the guard to take her to her room and have it guarded.

**Juste** watches the batttle and gets his bundled up rifle and goes into the rigle

**Lisbeth** goes up to **Malenkov** who tells her he lost **Lilly** and **Lisbeth** goes to find her.

**Maria** tells **Lilly** it's all right and asks where she lives

**Lilly** says she lives at **St.Pauls** tavern and she's been staying there with her mom.

**Nikolai** is told by a guard that **Maria** is also gone and he throws a wine glass at the wall and asks for three guards to search for her and if any guard decides to join he will be executed and to tell a guard to make an announcement in the city this evening. Then asks for a servant to clean up the mess

**Maria** tells **Lilly** she will help her and asks for her name

**Charlotte** has a nightmare or something i just scanned over it.

**Lilly** says her name and asks the same of **Maria**

**Nikolai** goes into **Charlotte's** room and asks where she's been

**Charlotte** tells him to go away

**Maria** says she's **Molly** and walks with **Lilly** out of the alley to find her home

**Nikolai** says no and asks if she liked her bit of freedom

**Lilly** said she thinks the tavern is up the street

**Charlotte** tells **Nikolai** has ten seconds to get out of her room before she hits him

**Nikolai** says he's not going

**Maria** asked **Lilly** asked if she has always lived in **Belinsky**

**Lilly** said her mom and dad worked in the palace before they were killed on **Red Day**

**Maria** tells her sorry and says who she lives with now

**Charlotte** asks where **Maria** is

**Lilly** tells **Maria** her adopted mom, **Lisbeth**

**Nikolai** said he didn't know but she isn't leaving the room and it won't be pretty if she tries to leave

**Charlotte** asks why he is being such as ass

**Nikolai** said because **Maria** spoke with **Juste** and didn't tell her about it and **Charlotte** ran away

**Juste** has memories of **Mira's** death and kills a man that tried to kill him. Then he hears **Mira's** voice

**Charlotte** apologizes but she was planing on coming back and tells **Nikolai** he better get rid of that attitude

(Yes because that makes up for it)

**Dormin** goes into the tavern and talks toward the palace gates

**Maria** tells **Lilly** she's glad and sees a tavern and asks if it's that one

**Lilly** says yes and asks for **Maria** to tell her the truth

**Nikolai** apologizes and says he's sick of it all and says he need to speak to his people

**Lisbeth** runs to **Lilly** and **Maria** and thanks **Maria**

**Maria** says the truth does more harm than good and watches **Lisbeth** hug **Lilly**

**Lisbeth** tells **Lilly** to not do that again and they walk back to the tavern and apologizes to **Malenkov**

**Charlotte** reads a book

**Juste** picks up a ball of twine and three grenades and goes toward an abandoned tower

**Nikolai** makes a speech to his people about how the rebels stole from the charity money and announces the places set up that will give food, clothing, and shelter but orders for the fighting to stop and he wants peace.

(Kings didn't really give speeches to their subjects on balconies. Also because all the people are on the other side of the palace walls that are far away from the palace itself. )

**Dormin** listens to **Nikolai** and goes into the palace

**Lisbeth** listens to **Nikolai** and goes back to the tavern

**Charlotte** does nothing of note

**Nikolai** tells his men to be on high alert and look for **Maria** and wants a booth set in the market handing out free produce from the local market. He then drinks wine and eats chocolate cake.

**Lilly** asks **Lisbeth** if she can keep the kittens

**Lisbeth** says no and put them back

**Lilly** said she is keeping them and gets mad at **Lisbeth**

**Felix** arrives at the **Alexander Palace**

**Maria** wonders the streets and finds **Lilly** again and asks what she is doing back out

**Nikolai** is told of **Felix's** arrival and tells the guard to let him in

**Lilly** says she ran away and picks up her dog Sam

**Felix** comes in and greets **Nikolai** and asks if he got his message

**Charlotte** sees **Felix**

**Juste** goes into the abandoned home of Lord and Lady Alicandy and raids the pantry and wine cabinet

**Nikolai** said no and hands him a glass of wine

**Maria** asks **Lilly** what she is going to do

**Lilly** says she will go somewhere and let **Lisbeth** worry

**Lisbeth** cries in her room

**Dormin** tries to get into the **Alexander Palace** but is stopped by **Justin Tombs** men

**Maria** laughs and says that sounds like a good plan and asks where 'somewhere' is?

**Lilly** says she is not sure and says she doesn't understand why people hate her.

**Felix** says he's here to help with the rebel issue

**Charlotte** talks to her dog

**Nikolai** asks **Felix** if he has heard of **Juste**

**Maria** says how we grow up shapes who we are and asks **Lilly** if she has a cat in her pocket

**Felix** says he has

**Juste** climbs to the top of the house and surveys the **Alexander Palace** grounds and sets up

**Lilly** says she has three

**Nikolai** says he is the reason for all this chaos

### Charlotte gets Shot

**Juste** sets up a trap inside the house.

**Lisbeth** gets a necklace out of a bag that reminds her of **Red Day**

**Felix** asks **Nikolai** if he is sending soldiers to find **Juste**

**Nikolai** says he is and waiting

**Felix** asks where everyone is

**Nikolai** says one is in her room and sends a guard to get **Charlotte** and **Maria** wants to be alone

**Maria** asks if they are cramped in there

**Lilly** asks where she is supposed to put them and asks **Maria** if she ever feels like she wants to be alone

**Felix** does nothing alone

**Charlotte** does nothing of note

**Nikolai** says violence isn't the answer right now

**Maria** says she used to and says she's always alone now and it starts to drive you now

**Lilly** says that's what she thinks is wrong with **Lisbeth** and asks if she has ever had a broken heart

**Maria** says it depends on you definition of a broken heart, but with love no and asks what happened to **Lisbeth**

**Lilly** says she is not sure and she is tired of her being upset and says a broken heart can't be fixed again

**Felix** greets **Charlotte**

**Charlotte** hugs **Felix**

**Nikolai** hopes the rebels keep it down

**Juste** finishes setting up the trap and scopes onto the palace with a rifle

**Nikolai** asks **Charlotte** and **Felix** if they should go into the garden

**Charlotte** agrees

**Nikolai** goes to the garden

**Charlotte** asks **Nikolai** if he's okay

**Nikolai** says he's fine

**Juste** watches the garden and shots **Charlotte** in the leg

**Charlotte** is shot i'm reading this one

**Juste** focuses on **Nikolai's** head and shots and takes out a guard

**Nikolai** goes to the ground and pulls **Charlotte** behind a statue and rips a part of his white shirt as a bandage.

**Juste** watches

**Felix** does nothing of note

**Charlotte** is hurt

**Nikolai** offers a flask of whiskey to **Charlotte** and asks her to drink it

**Juste** fires quickly and shoots snipers

**Chalotte** is still in pain

**Nikolai** helps guards get **Charlotte** inside

**Maria** hears the gunshots and asks what it was

**Lisbeth** has a mental breakdown, almost kills herself, and is comforted by **Malenkov**

**Lilly** says she's scared and her dogs takes off running and runs off into the garden

**Juste** watches and shoots a captain

**Lilly** watches the captain get shot right in front of her and calls for **Maria**

**Nikolai** sees **Lilly's** puppy and picks him up

**Maria** follows **Lilly** and picks her up and sees the choas

**Lilly** hugs **Maria**

**Juste** sees **Maria** and **Lilly** and contemplates killing her and then sees **Dormin** and shatters the glass in his hand

**Lilly** is scared

**Nikolai** tells his guards to let **Maria** and **Lilly** in and goes to check on **Charlotte**

**Juste** leaves the estate

**Dormin** watches the chaos and goes toward the ambassadors wing

**Juste** runs through alleyways and goes to re enter the **Alexander Palace**

**Nikolai** goes to the medic wing and is told that **Charlotte's** wound isn't fatal and asks for **Justin Tombs**

**Charlotte** is in pain

**Nikolai** goes into the hallway

**Justin** goes to **Nikolai**

**Nikolai** says the guards must be on 24/7 high security rate. **Charlotte** was wounded and every soldier needs rest

**Justin** says 4 dozen rebel soldiers were killed and that 19 officers, 132 soldiers, etc died. Then he says something is bothering him

**Nikolai** asks what that is

**Justin** says the rebels are more organized this time

**Nikolai** says he trusts his judgement and what he thinks they should do

**Isabella** tries to find **Nikolai**

**Nikolai** sees **Isabella** and hugs her

**Justin** goes away when **Isabella** comes and a guard tells him something about a house being trapped

**Isabella** asks **Nikolai** if he's okay and said she was barred in her room

**Nikolai** says he's fine but **Charlotte** got shot but it isn't fatal and apoligzes

**Lisbeth** goes outside

**Isabella** asks if he is sure **Charlotte** would make it through

**Nikolai** says they are

**Isabella** asks if he is okay

**Charlotte** is shot and being worked on

**Nikolai** says he's fine and hugs her

**Isabella** asks who did this

**Nikolai** said **Juste** and he won't stop

**Lisbeth** goes to an old house and has memories

**Isabella** moves closer to **Nikolai**

**Nikolai** asks if she could talk with **Charlotte** and kisses her and goes to the throne room

**Justin** is told by a guard that 30 soldiers went into the estate and the trap went off killing many men. **Justin** sent the guard to the medical wing and asks if they caught the sniper, which is no. He goes back into the hallway to gather officiers

**Nikolai** throws a glass candleholder on the floor and flips through maos

**Juste** gets rope from a cart and other supplies. Then takes wire from the grand piano in the ballroom and gets knives from the royal dining table. Then goes to the roof and into an old palace rookery.

**Nikolai** goes back into the garden

**Dormin** goes to **Nikolai**

**Nikolai** says he is on high alert security today

**Dormin** fills two glasses with wine and hands one to **Nikolai** and says he heard **Charlotte** was wounded

**Nikolai** says she was shot in the leg and it's not serious but a lot of unnecessary pain and scarring. He apologizes for all the chaos during his time. He hopes handing out supplies to the poor will help.

**Dormin** believes it will and he is used to troubling times. He offers to help **Charlotte** and was in the area of combat wounds in **Espana.** Then he asks about **Juste**

**Nikolai** agrees to his offer as some medics are busy with more serious injuries. He tells **Dormin** that the devil lives for ruining his families life.

(What injury would be more serious than a senior member of the Royal House being shot?)

**Dormin** asks how **Juste** went mad and that his capture was lucky

**Nikolai** says the prison can make someone mad and his capture was lucky. He doesn't know why he is the way he is.

### Lisbeth is Arrested

**Lisbeth** is caught by police and is shot in the arm and is taken to prison

(I wouldn't think there would only be one prison in Belinksy. It would make sense that the prisons the rebels were sent to would be harsh but not all the prisons would be that harsh I don't think)

**Dormin** thinks he is desperate and asks if **Charlotte** is in the medical wing

**Lisbeth** wakes up in jail and is branded

**Nikolai** says she is

**Justin** goes to the war room and orders the guard to be doubled and orders them to find **Juste** as soon as possible. Then asks to hold down the city

**Dormin** goes to the medical wing and tells **Charlotte Nikolai** asked to help her

**Nikolai** is informed of **Lisbeth's** arrest

(I honesty don't think Lisbeth's arrest is big enough for the King to be informed on it)

**Lisbeth** is hit by a guard

**Charlotte** greets **Dormin**

**Dormin** tells **Charlotte** his name and asks her permission to assist her

**Lisbeth** runs

**Charlotte** accepts

**Dormin** told **Charlotte** he served in **Espana's** military as a field surgeon and asks how much pain she is in

**Lisbeth** opens a door and runs into a corridor of the palace

(Why is the jail in the palace? Seem like a bad move)

**Nikolai** is informed on **Lisbeth's** escape and tells guards to get her

**Charlotte** says quite a lot

**Dormin** says that the scar will be noticeable but not too ugly and asks about the wound

**Charlotte** says there was a sniper near the gardens

**Dormin** says he wasn't a good shot and says it will be nothing but a silver line when it heals

**Charlotte** says whoever was trying to hit her brother

**Dormin** asks who this 'Devil' person was

**Nikolai** does nothing of note

**Lisbeth** goes down the hall and goes to the bedrooms

**Charlotte** says he was a rebel in the **Christmas Revolt** and he caused a lot of chaos before he was captured and **Nikolai** knows more than her. Then she thanks **Dormin**

**Dormin** tells her welcome and recommends a few days of bed rest then walking with a cane for a few weeks

**Isabella** goes to **Nikolai** and asks what's wrong

**Charlotte** reluctantly agrees

**Dormin** says if she walks on it now it will tear the stitches and ruin any dress she has on. Then says **Juste** could have done far worse than shoot her in the leg.

**Nikolai** says there is a fugitive loose in the palace and helps **Isabella** into a chair

**Isabella** tells **Nikolai** he should sleep

**Nikolai** says he will try to go sleep

**Isabella** goes to the stables and goes riding

**Juste** makes himself at home in the palace rookery and goes to an old service palace

**Charlotte** says she hopes he is stopped soon

**Dormin** tells her if she wants peace to prepare for war in Latin

**Charlotte** says she doesn't like war either

**Lisbeth** is hiding and is shot again and caught by guards

**Nikolai** is told that **Lisbeth** was caught and sends a guard to tell **Isabella**

**Lisbeth** is taken to the medical wing

(They could treat her in the jail)

**Isabella** has fallen off the horse and goes back to get fixed up

**Dormin** says **Juste** and the rebels don't share her opinion

**Isabella** gets fixed up and goes to **Nikolai**

**Nikolai** asks her what happened

**Lisbeth** is getting fixed up

**Isabella** says she just fell

**Nikolai** says they can relax now

**Isabella** says he should sleep

**Nikolai** thanks her for supporting him and tells her he loves her

(Two unmarried people of different genders kissing alone unsupervised in a bedroom is a big Edwardian NO NO very scandolous)

**Dormin** watches as **Isabella** and **Lisbeth** are taken to the infirmary

**Isabella** says she will always be there and she loves him too

**Nikolai** gets into bed

**Lisbeth** sees **Dormin**

**Isabella** sits in a chair

**Nikolai** goes to sleep

**Isabella** gets a dagger from the dresser and sits back down

(??????????????????????????)

**Dormin** asks a guard who **Lisbeth** is

**Lisbeth** asks the guards not to hold her so tightly

**Isabella** clutches onto her dagger before sleeping

**Dormin** yells at the guards to silence and gets his tools

**Charlotte** does nothing of note

**Lisbeth** does nothing of note

**Dormin** asks **Lisbeth** how she got her wounds

**Lisbeth** says the guards as they think she is a murderer but revenge isn't a crime

(Well, murder is a crime, if it's justified is another subject)

**Dormin** says killing is a crime these days

**Isabella** wakes up from a nightmare and goes to wake **Nikolai**

**Lisbeth** says even when it's justified

(The other guards don't know if it's justified or not)

**Nikolai** asks **Isabella** what's wrong

**Isabella** says she had a bad dream

**Dormin** says he is here to help and pulls the bullet from her arm

(Our characters get shot way to much for them to still be alive)

**Nikolai** asks if she is okay now and they can talk

**Lisbeth** says she is to be executed and says her child left her

**Dormin** asks for her child's name and stitches her wound

**Lisbeth** says **Lilly**

**Isabella** asks what his nightmares are about

**Nikolai** says **Juste,** failure, etc

**Dormin** wraps the sutures and slices her skirt to get to the wound

**Charlotte** does nothing of note

**Juste** wonders the palace and rests in the rookery

## 10 April 1907

**Cedric** steps off the large passenger ship with his fiancee, **Regina,**

**Isabella** sits at a table

**Nikolai** walks the halls and gets an order from the judge to have the prisoner downstairs ready for a trail tomorrow and orders a guard in the war room to tell **Lisbeth**

(Why would a judge be ordering Nikolai? Also, Nikolai would not be a part of Lisbeth's trial. There is a judicial system and it's below his pay grade to be a part of it. It's not his job to make sure Lisbeth is ready for her trial, it would be the prison that houses her. Which would not be in the palace)

**Lisbeth** wakes up in jail

**Isabella** is helped by one of her lady's maids get dressed and pins up her hair and puts on a ruby necklace and goes to find **Nikolai**

**Nikolai** tells her to come in as they are discussing **Lisbeth's** trial

(Nikolai has no reason to discuss Lisbeth's trial. Theft and murder are common crimes as well. That's like our president discussing a common murder trial. If it was a huge treason case it might be different, but still the King wouldn't be organizing the trial. There is a judicial system as there isn't a reason for King's to weigh in on common crimes.)

**Isabella** goes to his side.

**Nikolai** asks if she is curious

**Isabella** asks who was killed and if it was a rebel and what's going to happen with the prisoner

**Nikolai** said two of his guards were killed by a rebel named **Lisbeth Vaughn** and is being held at the jail to be tried tomorrow morning likely by firing squad.

(Considering what has already been established in this world, I would think she would be hanged as that seems to be the most common way of execution in this world)

**Isabella** says that's terrible and asks why they should kill her when she could be useful.

(Is Isabella recommending torture here? lol jk )

**Nikolai** said she refuses to talk and wishes there was something they could use against her to break her for information.

(Nikolai does show his dark side at random times)

**Isabella** says that's terrible and asks if he wants some tea

**Nikolai** says yes and picks up the puppy at his feet

**Isabella** is excited when she sees the puppy and petse it

**Dormin** knocks on **Charlotte's** door and asks to com in

**Nikolai** says he belongs to a little girl **Maria** found

**Isabella** said she had a dog once and hands him a cup of tea

**Nikolai** thanks her and drinks

**Justin** goes into the war room and addresses **Nikolai**

**Nikolai** asks how he rested.

**Isabella** smiles at **Justin**

**Charlotte** allows **Dormin** to come in

**Justin** asks if there was anything he could help him with

**Dormin** said he was here to check on her

**Nikolai** said no unless he wanted to be in the firing squad tomorrow.

(Also, the execution wouldn't happen in the palace.)

**Isabella** drinks tea as a lady's maid brings swatches of fabric and sees **Cedric** and goes to hug him

**Justin** is confused

**Dormin** asks **Charlotte** how she is felling

**Isabella** is asked why she is planning her wedding in the war room.

**Nikolai** said she wanted to come in here and tells **Justin** a rebel was caught and is due for trial tomorrow

**Lilly** walks the halls and wonders into some bedrooms and sleeps

**Isabella** apologizes to **Cedric**

**Charlotte** says she is doing fine and it doesn't hurt as much anymore

**Nikolai** mumbles that **Charlotte** will be angry

**Dormin** asks for her permission to examine it and change the dressing

**Justin** leaves to go and looks up at the rafters

**Lisbeth** is informed she would be executed

**Charlotte** gives **Dormin** permission

**Isabella** escorts **Cedric** and **Regina** to their chambers and asks **Nikolai** why they can't be nice to each other

**Nikolai** said maybe it's because **Cedric** replaced **Charlotte** and says **Cedric** is a jerk

**Isabella** said **Charlotte** even cared about him and his throne was in danger and there was no guarantee she would show back up.

(I mean, she is WRONG?)

**Nikolai** leaves and drops a lamp on the ground and yells at a servant to pick it up and goes to his bedroom and find **Lilly**

**Isabella** throws the swatches on the floor and leaves the palace to the wood

**Malenkov** walks through the woods and sees **Isabella**

**Nikolai** sees **Isabella** but doesn't worry about it. He called a servant girl to get **Lilly** cleaned up then goes to the library.

**Isabella** hears a noise and asks if anyone is there

(Isabella would get killed in a horror movie)

**Malenkov** goes to **Isabella** and asks why she is crying

**Lilly** is washed by a lady and his changed into a night gown

**Isabella** asks who he is and says it's hard to be so far from home when the two people that matter most to her refuse to be civil. Also, the death and hatred here in overwhelming

**Maria** wonders through the palace and sees **Lilly** and asks if she is okay

**Justin** walks to the prison and sees **Lisbeth**

**Dormin** unwraps her wound and asks **Charlotte** if she slept

**Malenkov** says welcome to the life of a rebel and says he is **Ollen Malenkov** and asks if she is a royal and says her situation is always better than theirs.

(Isabella should have ran the minute he said the word 'rebel')

**Lilly** says she is fine and says she likes it here

**Lisbeth** says it's her and they meet on awful terms

**Isabella** asks if he is going to harm her

**Malenkov** said only if she harmed him and said he is out cleaning his head

**Isabella** said she would not and told him her name and apologizes for assuming the worse. Then asks who his friend is.

(IZZY RUN)

**Malenkov** said **Lisbeth** and said not to relay this message back because he would kill her and he's worried because she's been upset.

(What's stopping her from relaying it?)

**Isabella** said losing a friend is the worst feeling in the world

**Malenkov** apologizes for threatening her

(Isabella leaveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)

**Isabella** says it's all right and says she's been a bit sensitive and a theft by a rebel

**Malenkov** said **Lisbeth** would't hurt an innocent soul in the world and she should ask some guards what they did to her to deserve the brutality of the death they got.

(How would any other guards know what happened? Also Lisbeth has killed innocent guards before in the last RP you can't fool me)

**Isabella** said she needed to go or her cousin will worry or attempt to murder her fiance

**Justin** says she doesn't seem too good

**Malenkov** disappears into the wood and goes back to the tavern

**Lisbeth** says life isn't her game and asks **Justin** if he knows why she's there

**Justin** says murder and her record of being a rebel

**Lisbeth** says she is not a murderer without cause then said the two guards messed with her.

**Isabella** walks back to the palace and goes to her room

**Lilly** tells **Maria** she is going to go exploring and sees **Nikolai** reading and asks for a book to read.

**Nikolai** says to be careful and asks what kind and **Lilly** points out a book on the history of **Karoleva**

**Isabella** notices a maid who tells her she has a wedding meeting and is rushed to get cleaned up

**Justin** says he knows and asks if she heard about the proceedings and says she disappeared after the **Eurvoan** army attacked

**Lilly** says history is interesting and says she likes to read about wars

**Nikolai** says he prefers fantasy

**Isabella** gets dressed and goes to the ballroom to sees cake and wedding dresses and then slips into the hallway

**Juste** watched **Cedric, Isabella, Regina,** and **Nikolai** from the rafters

**Lisbeth** says she knows and says she never left and she disappeared with **Lilly** for a while

**Justin** asks where **Lilly** was

**Lisbeth** said she made her upset and she saw her with **Maria**

**Lilly** says she likes fantasy too and **Lisbeth** read to her a lot.

**Nikolai** asks who **Lisbeth** was

**Isabella** sneaks into her bedroom and read a book

**Lilly** said she is the daughter of **Lisbeth** and she ran away and was found by **Maria**

**Nikolai** shows **Lilly** a picture in the paper of **Lisbeth** and **Lilly** says that's her and tells her to stay here.

(Okay, on a monarchy side of looking at this, freeing Lisbeth is a **BAD** idea. I mean I know you would be taking a mother away from a daughter but the crown doesn't have feelings. I know Lisbeth couldn't have died but i'm just saying)

**Cedric** goes to **Isabella's** room and knocks

**Nikolai** sees **Cedric** and turns around and goes to the judge and discuses the trial.

(Okay, the judge would not be at the palace or would there be a court house there either)

(Also, Nikolai can just pardon Lisbeth he has the power. Not saying it would be a good decision but he has the power)

**Isabella** ignored **Cedrics** knocking and then goes to the library and sees **Lilly**

**Lilly** says **Nikolai** was there earlier

**Isabella** says she's his fiance and asks for her name

**Charlotte** tells **Dormin** she did get some sleep

**Lilly** says sorry and tells her name and said she told him about her mom and he left

**Dormin** asks if she has eaten

**Isabella** asks who her mother is and gives her sweets

**Lilly** says her mom's name is **Lisbeth**

**Isabella** asks if she liked to write and asked a maid to bring her dresses she had when she was her age.

(Why would she bring dresses with her from when she was 10 years old?)

**Charlotte** says no yet

**Lilly** asks she likes to write and says she had an argument so she ran away

**Isabella** says mothers and daughters fight all the time and leads **Lilly** to her room and asks to pick out a dress and find a leather journal

**Lilly** picks one with red lace and cries at the mirror

**Nikolai** walks the streets with a guard because the judge refused to look into the case further and refused to take away the charges and set the woman free.

(I mean, the judge would have to follow direct orders from his King)

**Lisbeth** says he doesn't understand and her life has been hell and she wants to be happy.

**Isabella** hugs **Lilly** and comforts her

**Lilly** cries and asked **Isabella** if she believed in forgiveness

**Isabella** said she didn't but she does now

**Justin** said it's only at rock bottom when we can look up

**Lisbeth** asks him to talk to the guards plase

**Lilly** sees the newspapers on the table and sees **Lisbeth's** name and asks why she didn't tell her.

**Isabella** says that **Nikolai** is going to see the judge to order her release

**Lilly** says good and lays her head on her shoulder

**Nikolai** goes to **Isabella's** room

**Isabella** says she can trust her and wanted to protect her

**Nikolai** said he doesn't believe that she should be charged with the murder of the two guards and has a plan to let her go.

**Lilly** thanks him

### Lisbeth is set free

(How would Nikolai know the reason why she killed the two guards? The only people who would know are the two guards and Lisbeth. And this is 1907, and she's a criminal, there's no reason for anyone to believe her and some might think she's making it up for sympathy points)

**Isabella** asks how they are going to help and says he needs to leave no evidence

**Nikolai** tears out a piece of a journal and a pen and writes to **Justin** to get her out. Then asks for **Isabella** to forgive

**Lilly** hugs her dog

**Isabella** braids **Lilly's** hair and apologizes

**Nikolai** says he is a good puppy

**Lilly** says she likes it here and says they are meant for each other

**Olaf,** Charlotte's dog walks in

**Isabella** kisses **Nikolai's** jaw and asks **Lilly** why she's sad

**Lilly** says nothing and eats some cake and then asks who's dog **Olaf** is

**Isabella** says he's **Charlotte** and then says options for their wedding arrive

**Olaf** jumps on the bed

**Lilly** plays with **Olaf**

**Nikolai** kisses **Isabella** and says they have options to look over

**Malenkov** fires gunshots in front of the jail to try to free **Lisbeth** but fails and runs

**Isabella** says that her brother will not be attending

**Nikolai** apologizes

**Olaf** plays

**Nikolai** asks **Olaf** what his problem is

(This moment is too happy tf is happening)

**Lilly** hears gunshots and asks what that was

**Isabella** says that her brother thought of sisters and girls as walking alliances and now she is no longer needed.

(Not too far off on the mindset of the time)

**Nikolai** says he will talk to him

**Isabella** says that if he does not like **Cedric** he will not like her brother at all

**Nikolai** sees guards going toward the window and is told a rebel has been spotted near the woods name **Malenkov**

(How would they get his name?)

**Lilly** says **Malenkov** is her mom's best friend

(GOD DAMN IT LILLY)

**Olaf** is a dog

**Isabella** tells **Nikolai** to call it off

**Olaf** is a dog

**Nikolai** says he will find a way out

**Lilly** says she hopes so

**Malenkov** runs and dunks behind a fallen tree branch

**Isabella** says she met him in the woods and he'll make it out

(You \*clap\* shouldn't \*clap\* trust \*claps\* rebels \*clap\* just \*clap\* because \*clap\* you \*clap\* spoke \*clap\* to \*clap\* them \*clap\* once \*clap)

**Nikolai** runs out of the room and gets a brown jacket from the chair and a rifle

**Lilly** is scared

**Isabella** hanks the gun from his hands and asks what the hell he is doing

**Nikolai** says saving a life and points the gun in the air and fires it. Guards come and say that **Malenkov** is running down the streets

**Isabella** watches

**Lilly** is scared

**Nikolai** finds **Malenkov** injured and takes him back to the palace to an unused bedroom

**Isabella** tells **Lilly** to go with **Nikolai** and goes to tell a maid that her uncle is hurt

**Lilly** does nothing of note

**Nikolai** tells **Lilly** he will be fine

**Justin** gets the note and asks a guard for a pair of shackles and tells **Lisbeth** to get up

**Isabella** comforts **Lilly**

**Lisbeth** asks if this is her last walk

**Nikolai** says he will be fine and a tough Russian

(Karolevian)

**Justin** holds a finger to his lips and tells her to play along

**Isabella** tells **Nikolai** he almost gave her a heart attack

**Lisbeth** says if there are any men he wouldn't find losting

**Nikolai** apologizes and tells her to calm down

**Isabella** says that she almost watched her fiance almost become killed with bullets

**Nikolai** said not to forget handsome

**Lilly** said they are adorable

**Isabella** said she wouldn't go that far

**Justin** says sorry for what he is going to say in advance and tells guards he is going to shoot the her in the woods himself

**Charlotte** hears the gunshots

**Dormin** says it's likely hunters

**Charlotte** says she hopes so and how long til she can get out of bed

**Dormin** said today and he brought in a wheel chair

**Nikolai** said the plan would be working

**Lisbeth** said more like female dog as she's being led by one

**Isabella** does nothing of note

**Lilly** says she will stay here until she can talk with **Lisbeth**

**Nikolai** says of course she can and is told that **Malenkov** isn't doing well

**Isabella** said they should go wait for **Malenkov** to wake up

**Nikolai** walks with **Lilly** into the room

**Justin** says he has to play the role

**Lisbeth** says at least people will think she's dead

**Justin** scan the halls feeling like something was wrong

**Lisbeth** feels it too

**Juste** watches

**Lisbeth** follows

**Justin** leads her

**Lisbeth** follows

**Isabella** says it's fine

**Juste** walks down the hall and steps into the generator acess door

**Nikolai** sees **Malenkov** start to wake

**Lilly** smiles

**Malenkov** wakes up

**Justin** leads her and asks what's wrong with her arm

**Lisbeth** say the guards aren't as fun as they seem

**Isabella** tells **Malenkov** to be quite

**Malenkov** says the morphine has him saying things

**Justin** asks if she considered leaving all the fighting behind and walks her into the woods

**Isabella** says she is thankful he survived and tells all the servants to leave

**Lisbeth** said if she did she would be starving on the streets again

**Malenkov** asks where **Lisbeth** is

**Justin** unlocks her shackles and tosses them in the water

**Isabella** says escaping execution and calls **Nikolai** over

**Lisbeth** tells **Justin** to murder her

**Malenkov** said he assumed so

**Nikolai** apologizes

**Justin** said **Nikolai** asked him to get her out

**Isabella** watches

**Lisbeth** turns to walk away and says maybe they will meet again

**Malenkov** said last time he checked he was either dead or alive

**Nikolai** said this is the only time he will do this

**Isabella** said there will not be a next time

**Justin** said it's the only way he could get her out

**Nikolai** tells **Isabella** to get some restand tells **Malenkov** the same

**Isabella** says she will wait

**Nikolai** tells **Lilly** to come with him and show her a room and takes her to a room then tells **Isabella** he won't do anything stupid

**Juste** watches the operator sit in a chair with a giggling maid. He attacks the man and smothers the maid.

**Charlotte** thanks him

**Isabella** says that's boring

**Nikolai** asked what she would want to do

**Juste** starts rigging the generator

**Dormin** say welcome and asks her permission to help her into the wheelchair

**Justin** says she could stay

**Lisebeth** says she would love to but it's a risk she can't take

**Isabella** says she's not sure and asks the same

**Nikolai** says a tea party and gets a servant to bring a tray of tea and cookies and has a tea party with **Lilly**

**Lilly** thanks him and eats a cookie

**Charlotte** gives him permission

**Isabella** sips tea

**Dormin** picks **Charlotte** up and sets her in the wheelchair

**Nikolai** says they are his favorite cookies and they will offer some to **Malenkov** later

**Lilly** wonders if **Lisbeth** is all right

**Isabella** says she is sure she is fine

**Justin** asks what he should tell **Lilly**

**Lilly** says she's sure too and says she's getting tired

**Nikolai** agrees and says it's time for bed

**Lisbeth** says to tell her that she loves her and to stay in the palace if she wants and gives him the scalpel and other stuff and tells him it was nice seeing him

**Isabella** offers to tuck **Lilly** is after she changes

**Lilly** agrees and crawls into bed

**Nikolai** changes in his bedroom

**Isabella** tucks **Lilly** in

**Charlotte** thanks **Dormin**

**Lilly** cuddles under the blankets and her dog jumps up on the bed with her

**Isabella** kisses her cheek and goes to **Nikolai's** room

**Nikolai** asks her if she tucked **Lilly** in.

(Isabella and Nikolai sleeping together in the same bed before marriage is a BAD look)

**Justin** says the palace isn't safe

**Isabella** says she's comfortable

**Nikolai** says that her mother will not change

**Lisbeth** asks to keep **Lilly** safe and walks into the wood

**Isabella** said he did all he could

**Nikolai** tells **Isabella** she should get to bed

**Isabella** said he did well today and remembers him almost dying and gets upset

**Nikolai** said not to go bed upset

**Dormin** leaves **Charlotte's** room and goes to the ballroom

**Isabella** said he scared her earlier

**Justin** goes to the war room and gets a field report that says that transmission lines were discovered to be cut in **Alingsky** and runs to **Nikolai**

**Nikolai** says he will never do something like that again and ignores the knocking

**Isabella** ignores the knocking

**Juste** moves through the palace via the rafter and service passages and kills a guard with piano wire

**Justin** yells through the door that there is urgent news

**Nikolai** opens the door and asks what it is and tells him to step inside

**Justin** gives him the field report from **Marshal Burns**

### Invasion of Karoleva

**Nikolai** asks what the hell was going on

**Isabella** asks what's wrong

**Justin** said all is well in the city including the special project

**Nikolai** hands her the field report and asks what more they could want

**Charlotte** goes to her room

**Lisbeth** is at a gravestone of **Erik Verraten** crying

(I don't think Erik would have been giving a proper burial)

**Justin** said he isn't sure

**Dormin** goes to the ballroom to play the piano and notices it doesn't play and the strings are missing and the room goes dark

**Nikolai** asks **Isabella** to get **Lilly** and orders **Justin** to figure out what that was

**Lilly** get scared

**Charlotte** notices

**Justin** rushes past the ballroom and sees shadows standing at the piano and another in the pale moonlight

**Nikolai** comforts **Lilly** and tells her it's just an outage

**Lisbeth** hears the explosion

**Juste** was in the ballroom and sees **Dormin** and **Justin**

**Charlotte** calls for **Nikolai**

**Isabella** tells **Lilly** it's okay

**Nikolai** says they will be okay

**Maria** is in the parlor when the lights go out

**Isabella** does nothing of note

**Nikolai** does noting of note

**Isabella** does nothing of note

**Nikolai** says he hates the dark

**Isabella** does nothing of note

**Juste, Dormin,** and **Justin** square off. **Justin** attempts to arrest **Juste.** They all fight and **Juste** vanishes. The lights turn back on (This is post is all too long for me right now)

**Nikolai** says she controls the lights and rumors spread like wildfire

**Lisbeth** watches the palace

**Isabella** says she doesn't care about rumors

**Nikolai** goes to a window and sees **Lisbeth**

**Dormin** leans against a broken table and is fixed by a medic

**Lisbeth** goes back to the tavern and drinks

**Malenkov** walks out of the room and to the tavern

**Lisbeth** asks where he had been

**Maria** goes into the hallway and searches for people

**Malenkov** says he was looking for her and tells her all that happened.

**Justin** screams as a knife is pulled out from him and wonders if **Dormin** is a spy

**Juste** goes into the service passage and back into the rookery

**Lisbeth** wakes up goes to **Malenkov's** bed and sleeps

**Maria** goes to the infirmary and sees **Dormin** and **Justin** asks what happened

**Dormin** asks for **Maria** not to concern herself with it

**Justin** interrupts and says that they were attacked in the ballroom and he thinks they stopped an assassination attempt

**Juste** fixes himself up and sees **Mira** and passes out

**Maria** thanks **Justin** and asks if it is **Juste**

**Dormin** says he believed he was coming for **Charlotte** and is most likely the cause of the outage and himself and **Justin** stopped him from reaching **Maria, Charlotte, Nikolai,** etc

(Wait, how could Juste hear the piano if the wires were gone?)

**Justin** says there was no clean advantage

**Maria** asks if **Nikolai** has been informed

**Justin** said no and it's possible he fled the palace

**Maria** said she should find her family and thanks them before leaving

**Nikolai** goes to bed

**Charlotte** has a mental breakdown or something idk I didn't read it

**Juste** has a dream about the day **Mira** died

**The Wraiths** assemble in the alleyways of **Belinsky** looking for **Juste**

**Captain Oliver Nedaan** is in a ship being chased by ships and make it to **Alingsky.** His ship is met with artillery fire and sinks.

**Major Alexi Voldon** is heading the conquest of **Alingsky. Espanan** soldiers misembarked and swept through the city, killing **Karolevian** soliders and guardsmen and rounded up townfolks. Then asks the rebel leader if he is willing to go all the way. The town is cleansed of **Karolevian** loyalists by midnight.

## 11 April 1907

**Maria** goes to **Charlotte's** room and asks if she's in there

**Charlotte** says she's in there

**Maria** asks if she can come in and has something to return to her

**Charlotte** says she can come in and asks what it was

**Maria** hands her the journal and asks if everything is okay

**Charlotte** says she's okay and apologizes

**Maria** says she doesn't have lie and we shouldn't have to hide our emotions

**Charlotte** says she's fine

**Maria** tells **Charlotte** not to shut her out and she is the only person she has left

**Charlotte** tells **Maria** to leave

**Justin** fixes his own wound and goes to the war room

**Maria** pleads and leaves as fast as possible

(Wow that hit hard, we need to keep that in)

**Charlote** cries

**Dormin** sees the maid and man from the generator room come into the infirmary and goes into the ambassador suites.

**Maria** goes into her room and cries

**Maria** cries herself to sleep

**Charlotte** sleeps

**Justin** goes to his officer quarters and reads the report and sleeps