River was returning to the place where she grew up as a slave. It sounds insane and crazy that this is where, a hundred years ago, in 1720, Queen Valentine made her stand. A Lunar Eclipse was about to happen for the first time since 17 years ago, when River was born. River went to the castle unnoticed and went to meet vainglorious Queen Vonetta, who would have listened to anybody else if she had not stood in front of her. River said,”O Queen Vonetta, I demand we be free and you heed that the Jones of Evil is in your head and to let me treat it with words of poetry.”:
Oh, slavery shall be my world,
But I pray to be free!
Oh, slavery shall be a devious act,
When you listen to your own mind.
Stop with the Jones.
Follow Queen Valentine!
And the queen sang along, broken from the spell:
Marjin is not a wasteland!
Today let’s have freedom,
Marjin is in good hands,
With the Queen…
And Queen Vonetta lastly sang:
And the Poetry Keeper River.
She declared slavery over and Poetry Keeper River helped keep all the poetry in order. All was well and all recent quarrels were forgotten and remembered again a month later in advance.
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