Please summarize the story you are working on like a valley girl.

"Oh my God, so you know, like, those two princess sisters from Spain?"

"Galswintha and Brunhilda? Yeah, like, totally! They've got such daddy issues - they don't have any brothers, so when their dad dies, like, Spain's gonna get plunged into yet another civil war, and the Romans will probably invade all over again."

"Exactly. So, like, their dad came up with this plan to use them. He's married them off!"

"Ew. You mean, like, sold them off like cattle?"

"Yeah, like, totally, but you won't believe this.. get this.. they're married to two brothers."

"Like barf me out! That's grody to the max."

"Fer sure fer sure. They're these two kings though--"

"--wait, two brothers? Kings? Of separate kingdoms? That's kinda gnarly actually. How is that even possible?"

"Well, like, France has this totally bogus inheritance law where brothers inherit an equal portion of their daddy's kingdom. As each brother dies, the surviving brothers divide the dead brother's territories. So if either of the two brothers can punch out a grandson for the King of Spain.."

"..they'd have a chance to control Spain too! But wait, won't that, like, make the two brothers wanna kill each other even more? And won't they wanna assassinate one of the two sisters to make it, like, a sure thing for their team?"

"No duh. I just got off the phone with Brunhilda. Like, her sister, Galswintha? Yeah.. Galswintha just got strangled to death in bed by her husband's secret lover, Fredegund, their maid. And get this - the guy buried Galswintha's mangled corpse and totally MARRIED Fredegund in a public ceremony on the same day!"

"Oh my God what is that girl's damage? What's Brunhilda gonna do about it?"

"Well, last thing I heard, she'd convinced her husband to invade his brother's lands to get back the dowry Galswintha had brought with her.. and Fredegund is, like, clearly pulling the strings on her new husband"

"Tubular. That could be totally radical to read about some day. It's, like, an epic feud between two totally bad-ass and angry women"

"Best of all it actually happened. Rumour has it it's gonna spark this epic forty-year civil war. Brunhilda and Fredegund are gonna both be widows soon and they'll be running the kingdoms on behalf of their infant kids."

"Fer sure."

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