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Many people are out to get my father right now. He owes a lot of money to both the emperor and many shops in our town. My father is all about looking good with his big coats and hand made swords. He doesn’t need half the things he owns. My father is now on his deathbed and can’t address all of these problems. I have just been informed that it’s my duty to take his place and become queen. My father has just raised taxes because he needed more money to afford his luxuries and still give money to the emperor. The bank had stopped loaning my father money because he owes them enough already. The basic picture here is my father is in debt and it is now on my shoulders to set everything right. Many people have come by my house and asked me to pay them back. Just the other day the black smith came by asked me when he would be getting his money.
I answered “I am sorry about the delay but I was just informed not to long ago that I will become queen and I am not sure yet how I am going to fix my fathers mistakes. So if you could please be patient for a little longer that would be nice.”
“You are just like your father. I am never going to get my money am I. well let me tell you something little missy, the next time I come by here I better have my money. You and your father are both a disgrace.” The black smith told me with an angry tone in his voice. The black smith turned toward the down left without a sound. I had no I idea what I was going to do. The emperor was asking for more money, which means I have to raise taxes once again. The town’s people will become rebellious and this would make the emperor send in his troops and have me sent out of town. I have to figure out someway to repay everyone. The bank was coming by tomorrow to collect their money. There was no way I could get them their money by tomorrow. I had to make some trade with them, something they would be interested in. I could raise taxes again… no wait. I am already doing that to pay the emperor and if I were to raise the taxes even more it wouldn’t be fair to the people of the town. They wouldn’t be able to get by on food and clothing if they didn’t have much money to keep for themselves. I wish I could help them but I have problems of my own. What if I were to join them, be rebellious toward the empire. If I were to do that I wouldn’t be fulfilling my duty and my father would have been very disappointed in me. Then again my father has disappointed me much more than I would ever disappoint him. He left all of his problems on my shoulders to deal with. If I side with the people the town will realize I am for them and I am not like my father. But if I were to do this then I wouldn’t be able to be princess, the emperor would send his troops out from all over the empire to send me out of town. This would cause a huge war between our town and the rest of the empire. What if the town wouldn’t back me up, what if I propose to the town I will join them to rebel against the empire but they don’t support me and I am left not a princess anymore or respected by the town. Really, joining the town is the only option I have because if I don’t take the chance of totally being neglected by the town I will still be in debt because of my father and the bank won’t leave me alone. I am going to have to think about this for a little while. I decided to go out the garden by my house. It is my favorite place to go. It is filled with beautiful different color flowers and the grass out there is the greenest in the town. There are many small trees with all different color leaves all over the garden but my favorite tree is the biggest one on the garden. It is a huge tree with pink flowers on it just starting to blossom. The tree provides good shade. When the weather is hot out I love going under the tree and read a good book. I love reading; it gives so much imagination for the mind. I walked by the rose bushes smelling the wonderful smells. I started to think about what I was going to do about my being in debt. I am not ready to be queen. I know nothing about it. Maybe that is the answer to my question. If I am not ready to be queen then I should just join the town. That is exactly what I shall do. I will announce it to the town tomorrow. I shall call everyone in the town for a meeting. I do hope I am making the right decision. I continued to walk in the garden. There was something about it here that made my thoughts clear. It might be because it is so beautiful out here and quiet. No one ever comes out here but me, I don’t know why because it is so beautiful but then again I am glad no one else comes out here because it then makes this place my own. I sat down on a bench by the pond. In the pond is a small waterfall. I love the sound of the water crashing into the pond water. If I could I would live out here. I just sat outside on the bench for a while not thinking about anything. It felt like forever since I have just sat on this bench not think about anything. The last time I was out here was when my father first became ill. I remember being sad but I did not cry. I am still not sure why I didn’t cry but I am guessing it was because that was when I first realized it was my turn to become queen and I was in so much shock that it was finally my time to fulfill my duty. Ever since I was a little girl I have dreamed about becoming queen. I thought it would be the best thing ever to happen to me but now that my dream is actually happening I am not excited but scared. Everyone depends on me and that is just too overwhelming. This is why I have decided to join the town. I stayed outside for about the rest of the day. I did not want to go back to my house because then people of my town would come looking for me and demanding that I give them their money. I just cleared my mind and lay down on the bench. When I woke up it was darker outside, the sun was just going down. That night the sunset was more beautiful than usual. It was mostly pink but with a thin line of purple that went through it. I couldn’t tell what time it was but I knew that people would start to wonder. It was quite chilly out so I decided to start walking back to my house. How everything was lit up was just so beautiful I couldn’t even begin to explain how pretty it was. When I finally reach my house the butler answered the door asking, “Where were you Madame? People have been trying to get a hold of you. The people from the bank stopped by again and asked that I tell you to report back to them as soon as possible.”
I simply just walked right by him not saying a word. I then looked back and answered, “this will all be dealt with tomorrow.” And then I continued forward and whispered to myself allowed “I hope”. I went up to my room and went to sleep.
The next day was the day I was going to announce to my town that I was going to rebel against the empire with them. I asked my butler to send out men to go and tell the people of my town to come to my town meeting. “It will be hosted outside of my house. Right out there.”
“Are you sure that is a good idea, you know the crowd might go erupt and wont leave your property.”
“Why will they be angry with me? I am helping by giving them a voice toward the emperor. Everything will be fine.” I lied to myself. The men that I asked for were sent out and as I saw them leave I knew from that point on there was no turning back. I stayed in my room for a long time. I looked out the window and first I saw my reflection looking back at me. I looked like a nervous wreck. If I couldn’t even believe in myself than how could they? I called in my maid to fix up my hair. Doing my hair is such a hassle. I stared in the mirror and tried to convince myself that I was leader and everything will turn out right. After a while the maid finished with my hair. I went to my dresser and pulled out a rather fine dress. I grabbed a pair of shoes to match it. My butler came in my room and said with his nose stuck up in the air “miss they are ready for you”. It was finally time for me to go out and show my face to the crowd. The day had gone by quickly. I looked in the mirror one last time and reminded myself I needed to believe in me. I turned away form my mirror and left the room. I walked down the hall feeling like I was going to faint. The hallway soon ended then came the stairs. I lifted my dress slightly to keep it from getting caught under my feet. I went down each step very slowly. Taking my time, not in a hurry to face the crowd I started to think about the consequences again about what I was doing. About half way down I stopped and sat down on the stair. I took three deep breaths then stood up again. I was going to go out there with confidence. Let them know that I am making the right decision and them taking my lead is the right things to do. I continued down the stairs realizing how many there actually are. Once I stepped off the last stair I felt like I was going to throw up but did not stop. I continued toward the door. There, my butler was waiting for me to open the door. I stepped out and faced everyone. I felt like a completely different person. I didn’t let the fact that I was a nervous wreak show up on my face. As I opened my mouth to speak a familiar voice shouted out “are you here to raise the taxes again or do you have something else you want to take away from us? Or how about paying us our money that you owe us.” I was in shock; I didn’t think this is how my speech would start out.
“You are just like your father” another voice called out.
“No I am not,” I said in a stern voice. I am tired of people comparing me to my father. We are completely different people. “I have come here today to declare that I do not agree with the emperor and I want to do something about it. I wish to rebel against the emperor with and that may even lead into a war with the empire.”
“And what make you think we want to go to war?” another voice shouted
“Well I know that you don’t want to keep on being taxed ridiculously and not have the rights you deserve. The only way to let the empire know that you aren’t going to put up with being treated like dirt is to stand up against him. But you know if you don’t agree with me you always could just let it be and go on living with your lives. Oh but wait I was suppose to raise the taxes again today because the emperor would like more money but I guess that doesn’t bother you because you don’t want to say anything about it to the emperor. You might as well just give him all the money you have now because pretty soon it will turn out like that. You won’t have enough money to live your lives well.”
“What do you recommend we do? We don’t have enough materials, money, or the guts for that matter to rebel against the empire.”
“All you need is the heart of a warrior and you will be fine. I am still figuring this out as I go but it will turn out fine.” I was lying to everyone in the crowd and to myself. I had no idea what the turn out will be. All I know is I am the one who is going to be in the most danger. I was risking my whole life and my dream of becoming princess.
“You aren’t just doing this to make peace with us and have us forget about you owing us money.” another man said with a bit of attitude.
“Of course not. Why would I give up my position as queen just to get out of paying you money? I do not run away from my mistakes. I am doing this for you, and me. As I have said before I do not believe in what the emperor wants from us. But if you would like I could just forget all about this and just take my place as queen and continue to tax you.”
“You really do want to help us. I am fed up with the empire and the rest of the ruling family. Your father was just like the empire. He never cared about anything or one but himself. He only raised taxes yet again to keep himself above us in wealth. He needed the luxurious life that none of us could ever have because of him. Your father needs a new fur coat and how does he get it? Through us, we work day and night to make our own living but wait your father needs his fur coat so how is he going to get it if doesn’t have the money. He raises taxes the next day. Leaving us paying him more money and now need to work more and harder to earn more money for us. Now you stand here saying you want to help us. Generations of your family have been just like him, not caring about, in fact could care less if we are wealthy, healthy, or happy for that matter. You are now the first out of your family to even propose that you want to help us, weather you will follow through on your proposal or not I do not know but I will soon find out. Or shall I even take the chance of finding out. How do I know you won’t just end up being like the rest of your family? Tell me that, why should the rest of us and I trust you at all. Why take a chance with you,” a man shouted out with a powerful voice. He did not stutter a word. It sounded as if he practiced his speech; it was fluent and very powerful. At first I did not know how to answer the question but then it just came out
“Because I am not my father. I am not like the rest of my family. At least I am trying, that is more than any of the others of my family has done.”
“And how can we be sure that you aren’t going to turn out like your father.”
“Because how can I be like a man that I do not agree with at all. If I do not believe in what he does why would I enforce the same rules upon you all. I am proving myself by showing up here today. I truly do believe that we can defeat the entire empire but first you need to trust me. If you do not trust me we can’t get through any of this and when I say we I do mean me as well.”
“She may be our only way of getting the rights we deserve.” Another familiar voice called out. I looked out and it was no one other than the blacksmith who has been doubting me during this whole thing.
I felt a power within me that I have never felt before. The feeling just grew stronger and stronger. As I was talking I was getting carried away. Some of the things I was saying I didn’t even know I had felt. Every question that was thrown out to me I could answer it. I could even answer questions I hadn’t even thought about. As my speech grew longer I could feel the crowd joining my side. Time passed by and my speech grew stronger. Finally I convinced my town to join me and rebel against the emperor and even the entire empire if it were to go that far. At this point I knew that the people of the town were ready for whatever came at them. Maybe even war. I just could not fail them because once I do I will never have the respect from them that they have just given me but that is the thing I do not feel I will fail them. I have become a new person from this. I am now a stronger woman.