Tamaki watched the corpse of Yingtai being prepared for her burial. He then traveled to the bunker of the Tower of London where the rest of the counseling court rested. But he found Damian depressed on his knees.
Somber, Tamaki dropped the wrapped paper in front of him. But Damian didn’t move a muscle. He was somehow depressed; he must have known something that happened to Yingtai.
“She is dead, isn’t she?” he said softly.
Damian sadly looked at Tamaki. He was the youngest of the court. But he was sentimental like Sallé.
Sallé cuddled up beside Damian and cried in his arms. He had forgotten what it was like having six siblings right beside you. He had even forgotten that he was leading this court himself, as well as Helmuth.
Late in the evening, Damian unwrapped Yingtai’s final letter.
If you love me…I strongly urge you to attend my burial and burn my favorite incense.
My last words are…you were my first true love!
- Zhu Yingtai
Damian couldn’t help but cry himself to sleep. He just wanted so much to see Yingtai while she was still the princess of England. But due to their separation from the king, it was all over.
Damian passed out from crying. The next morning, he dressed himself and proceeded to the burial of his love.
*~*~*~*~*~*
The funeral for the princess Elizabeth/Yingtai had been a successful one. But all of the subjects in the castle mourned for the loss of the new princess.
Dead at nearly the age of 17 years.
Damian was called to lay a rose on top of the grave. He did not have a rose. However, he did have Yingtai’s favorite incense. As he lit it in the middle of the tombstone, the boy began to cry, knowing he would never see Yingtai anymore.
How I wish to be with you, he thought, offering the sacrifices through his tears, Just take my life! I want to die already!
“He really does love her, doesn’t he?” asked Henry to his son Edward.
“If you would’ve denied the wedding between my sister and Philip, then she wouldn’t have gone under depression, or worse, grown ill!” snapped Edward, storming away.
King Henry the Eighth finally recognized the love of Yingtai and Damian and eventually accepted it.
Damian could not think of anything beside Yingtai. She was gone! Kaput! Departed from the planet Earth!
He brought a bottle of ink and wrote his name beside his love’s name. Now the grave stone said: The Tomb of our beloved Princess Elizabeth and Liang Damian.
Suddenly, as he was standing up, the clap of a lightning bolt appeared and split the tombstone in two. Damian did not understand what he was seeing. But he eventually burst into tears once more.
Without any warning, another lightning bolt clapped again. But this time, it went straight through Damian’s weary body, electrifying him until he was unable to breath. When he could no longer contain his balance, he fell into the open grave and laid dead beside the body of Yingtai.