Part I: Life in Spain

This is the first chapter to a short story I'm working on about the childhood of Bloody Mary (who, I would like to prove, was not quite so bloody as history portrays her as). Obviously since I put this piece of writing under the category of fiction, nothing said in the book actually happened, although the general facts are true. For instance, Mary was a lonely child, or that she had brown eyes, etc. (verified through several history books and such).