Day 41- Selfie Freewrite Celebration Contest!

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This is my entry for the Day 41- Selfie Freewrite Celebration Contest - Prize 113.667 SBD, hosted by @freewritehouse.

You can also find this weekend’s freewrite prompt by visiting Weekend Freewrite - 6/23/2018 - Part 1 - The First Sentence, hosted by @mariannewest.

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She felt compelled to pick up the pencil. When she did, it started... the new world of Adurakadan. The magical creatures came to life in an outline until the plot made sense in her mind. It wasn’t a novel idea to have King Hagar the Brute; the gorilla leader from the Jungle Clan, marry the Princess Chimp of the Dainty Clan, but in her mind, there wasn’t any other way for the story to begin.

The princess wasn’t happy about the marriage of course, and Molly would need to think of several reasons the wedding would be postponed. There would be a sudden emergency, an illness, possibly an accident that had to prevent the wedding because the Princess wasn’t ready for a marriage with such expectations.

Before long though the King would have his way, as most kings do, and the woman he wanted would be bound not only by name, but by law. The princess tried her best to keep a smile on her face as the other chimps cheered the fated union, but in her heart, she would be plotting her escape from this jungle throne.

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“Did you hear that Mike called the company president an asshole?" he said. But Molly was in her own world, and she didn’t much care about her husband’s work drama. The princess chimp Molly now named Anabelle, was hanging from the vines of the ivory tower and her fate would be decided in the next few sentences.

Molly thought of the dangers she would need to detail. Perhaps a mote full of hungry crocodiles? Maybe a long ditch full of overgrown thorn bushes… She didn’t want to hurt the princess, but she must suffer something during the escape.

The royal guard Princess Anabelle enchanted with her wiles was waiting at the gate with the getaway wagon and a stage couch waiting to leave the colony.

She would be far away before the King even noticed she wasn’t in his bed. Molly set the scene so that the king was having a male bonding ritual of drinking and entertainment; a night the princess would normally excuse herself from the dining hall early and there would be no surprise by her actions.

The princess knew if the king found her outside she would find a fate worse than she had known before.

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Molly couldn’t bear continue the story until she decided on a grand escape for her heroine. She could continue a love affair between the royal guard and the princess, but maintenance is required, clearly. She had created the princess to be so independent and stubborn that it wouldn’t fit her character to fall in love with the first guy who saved her from an evil king.

No, she would have to leave the chimp world to find her own destiny. Molly would have her princess travel to a remote destination and cultivate a chimp clan of her own. When Princess Anabelle decided it was time she would make the chimp she loved the King. They would live happily ever after, and the veracities of her days past would become as faint as a faded dream.

The princess would change her name, to Queen Anabelle of the Forest Shallows and she would swing high above her kingdom with her princess and princesses in tow. Her offspring would grow to be wise chimps and their intelligence would be known for generations to come. Molly decided her princess would save herself, and with some help she will do just that.

As Molly laid the pencil down and looked at her husband. She grinned knowing that while he was talking about work gossip and troubles, her princess Chimp changed her world. The outline was complete, and the story would be brilliant.

Ding!

Thanks for reading.

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Thanks to @snook for this super cool gif!