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The streets were empty, save for the national guards that had been deployed across the kingdom. Guards whose purpose was not to keep the people from being a nuisance to each other, no.
They had been deployed, not for peace and sanity.
But for safety.
It wasn't because they were unsafe for each other. But because they had to make sure everyone stayed indoors, to avoid a massacre that threatened to burn out the entire kingdom.
So, when the mad queen, her beloved in her arms, tightly held like hope – walked down the road to the palace, her steps slow and deliberate, like she didn't want to hurt her beloved, the guards steered clear.
Everyone cast an invisibility spell on them, like the queen couldn't see them through their spells.
Sakura was powerful enough to see them, but in this moment, as she walked with her eyes swollen and her beloved's ruined body in her arms, she didn't bother to undo the spells.
