**Flashback**
"Silence!"
The chaotic long table fell into silence with the booming voice of Louis—the patriarch of the family. They were having a meeting because the plague had been spreading far and wide and thousands of people had been dying.
Louis scanned his children from the head of the long table, his eyes were full of worry that his children would not be spared from the illness that had taken over their town and the other neighboring towns and cities.
"What they are offering is ridiculous! It cost more than the life of my wife!"
The woman sitting in the middle of the long table with cascading yellow hair snickered. "Brother, your wife's life meant nothing. She could not produce you an heir!"
"Shut up!" He hurled the silver cup towards his only sister and he felt another silver cup, hitting the side of his head. He glared in the direction of the cup that hit him and saw his older brother giving him a blank look. He was holding another silver cup in his right hand.
