Literature
Rosalina (Anastasia) Prologue
Russia, 1916 Our story begins as we are given a view of an elegant music box. The opening had two figures of anthropomorphic cats dancing together while a little melody played. Then, the music box’s lid closed and the figurines disappeared. A furry, light brown hand picked up the music box, and placed it in a purse; the hand belonged to an elderly cat, who had gray hair and squinted eyes, and wore a red court gown with black and gold trimmings. The old woman, who was the Dowager Empress Bapka of Russia, walked down a staircase to meet a carriage. Glenn Quagmire and Cleveland Brown helped the old woman into her carriage and closed the door; Otto Mann then ordered the horses to go. As the carriage travelled into the streets, we hear Empress Bapka narrating the story in her Eastern European accent: There was a time, not very long ago, when we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. The year was Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen, and my son, Sedgewick, was