Humorous Wedding Speech: The Handmaid's Tale

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Yesterday afternoon my friend Edgar and I have been framed for stealing from a market far from our village, The Kingdom of Evenswell. We were trying to outrun an army, they were chasing us so we can get locked up in a dungeon. The men were so angry that we did not have time to explain what really happened, we didn’t have nothing to defend ourselves and no companion to back us up from the situation, so we kept on running and running and running. Later on, we saw a village a bargaining place I assume. We hid behind the stands but there was so many of them. We couldn’t do anything, we didn’t have no choice but to turn ourselves in. But we’ve got a plan, once they turn us in to the king we’re going to explain what happened …show more content…
When the message has been successfully delivered by my friend Slanen, a group of 20 men came to rescue us, but it wasn’t that easy. They had to go through an army twice their men we’ve lost 11 of our companions and only 9 of them lived. Once they rescued us, we had to go through the king's men once again, my friend Edgar have been stabbed on his sides by the king's men as we were making our way out the dungeon, Edgar was losing too much blood we was nearly breathing the last breath as he go. Out of nowhere a fairy named Mandy showed up and gave us an advice for a way out of the kingdom along wit a spell that healed my friend Edgar. After that my companions and I thanked her as well as Edgar, Mandy gave Edgar a second chance to live so he thanked her will all his life. The king's men returned and are here to end our lives but we did wat the fairy told us to do, there was a secret portal that will lead us to a safest place that no one know about, as we do so we went through a lot of guards that are trained to take our lives

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