Chapter Forty Six: King Herenius IV

 Snow White is an extremely popular princess, as everybody knows because of her beauty, a testament to the many tales written about her, including those requiring dark times, predictions of doom, and an impending murder. But as much as the popularity of Her Royal Highness, her father, King Herenius IV, was little known in the banned books, tales, and folklore.

But there is a reason for that.

King Herenius IV ascends the throne in a rather murky circumstances surrounding a dark secret that their ancestry has been keeping for so long. He was ultimately made King, after all, but his older brother, the Heir Apparent, was not met by a very pleasant fortune.

It was a dark, dark secret, as sinister as it was, so nobody can know about it, even the closest aide of the Queen Regnant, Herenius IV's mother. But he accidentally knew of it, and how sad that moment was. He wished he never did. He has absolutely no interest in inheriting the throne.

Queen Anastasia III was astonished to know that the curse still exists, and her concern over her oldest son's health was in complete jeopardy as the Kingdom enters into an agreement with the Union of Boroughs, eventually resulting in the election of the very first High Commissioner.

But enough of politics.

It was the Crown Prince who manages to inherit the sickness, a severe illness battled on between the Vampires and the Ruesinards. The Ruesinards was a society established long ago by the Prince of Tenth, the very knight who founded the Kingdom, the considered archnemesis of the Vampires.

Eventually, it was the Vampires who won. And the illness ensued. The Vampires then left down south, leaving the Tenth lands in plague.

There was a curse. And this curse can be found in Princess Snow White. King Herenius IV senses everything, and even his own Queen Consort are seeing the signs. It begins and ends with Astrology, and the constellations cannot lie.

Nobody shall know of Herenius IV's past; not even close.

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