Choosing to explore, the trio navigated through the dimly lit corridors, their curiosity driving them forward. The symbols on the walls, took them even further into the past, to the time when Malta was ruled by Gonslavo de Monroy, for the King of Aragon (Spain). Monroy was cruel and taxed the Maltese into poverty, until they finally rebelled in 1425 and locked up Monroy’s wife Constance in the Castello at Birgu. Still the Maltese had to pay the King of Aragon 30,000 florins to buy their own freedom.
At that point a soldier spotted the children so they quickly ran through a doorway.