claire's royal dance

Claire’s POV: Claire had arrived with Aurelia to the royal flower gallows. She, much like her friend, was excited but also saddened by what it meant. She was going to hang until death. But to her it was worth it, Aurelia and her where commoners who would never had lived for much longer in the streets. So this was a better fate in her opinion. As she would at least dance as a princess and not as street rat. Both her and Aurelia climbed up the steps to the gallows and she looked at her noose. Aurelia moved further ahead to the second noose and she was the first to dance. Claire cheered her friend on as the executioner lady pushed Aurelia away to dance. Claire was enthralled by Aurelia’s dance cheered her on until Aurelia had finished her dance hanged limply. As Aurelia died Claire’s turn came. She smiled and waved at the people as the executioner tied the noose around her neck. Once tied up she gave her last words and smiled as she was pushed off the platform. As she felt the noose stop her fall and catch her by surprise. She swings for a moment with a shocked expression. As her initial shock slowly left and the pain began to set in. She started to dance, she reached out and grabbed her dress and tried to dance in the air. She managed to kick and swing her dress in an elegant form that made it seem as if she was truly dancing. The people cheered her much like they cheered Aurelia as she danced in the air. She began to feel the pain set in more and more and began to struggle against her noose. Reaching for her neck and the rope and trying to, in a final desperate attempt to free herself. She kept kicking and dancing. Giving the crowd a lovely dance as she desperately tried to free herself. Soon she began to slow down her dance, the pain had become too much and she could not dance anymore, she rested her hand on last time on her chest as she soon lost the fight against the rope. She died happy that now she would be with Aurelia and that they died as princesses. The people where in loved with her dance and mourned both of their deaths. Considering them princesses until the end.