TRIGGER WARNING: deth, self-oof, abvse Scroll down for plot Rae is a girl living in a kingdom that has fallen apart. The once-just ruler, the queen, has fallen under the rule of her abvsive husband and stops caring about her people, leading Rae's parents to die in a fire and Rae to be kicked to the streets. After surviving on the streets for a while Rae is caught stealing food and must sneak onto a capitol-bound ship. With nothing left to lose and a half-baked assassination plot, Rae sneaks into the castle, runs from the guards, and ends up in the queen's quarters, witness to one of the interactions with her husband. Instead of killing the queen, Rae offers her sympathy instead but ends up awaiting her execvtion in the dungeon. The queen's handmaid, Lyla, helps her realize she never wanted to klll Rae in the first place. As Rae accepts her fate, Lyla sets her free, but her empty cell is discovered by the king. The queen hides Rae in her room but Rae is discovered by the king, and the queen takes all his wrath. Rae slips outside and reveals to the people what is going on inside their castle, and the people rlot. The king and guards come and start mvrderlng people until the head of the guard and the king's right-hand man realizes he has only caused vlolence and kllls him. With the king gone, Rae tries to convince the queen and people to build a better world but both refuse, and Rae realizes she has only caused deth, so ends herself. Lyla brings this news to the queen, who realizes she could have prevented Rae's fate and could still help others, so she makes peace with the civilians and helps to build a democracy. The puppet master realizes people aren't just toys.
Okay I want to give Rae a best friend she meets in the capital she falls in love with and promptly loses by plotting to create anarchy and her friend gets dragged away but idk input?
