Southern Reckoning

A coup forced Dad and Mother to flee separately. Big Sis chose to follow The Father, who had a hundred guards.
The Father wandered from place to place. When he raised an army to fight the usurpers, she chose a husband in the military camp.
She picked a handsome Centurion, but unfortunately became a widow.
I followed Mother back to the Southern Homestead, where I lived a life of comfort and luxury.
When The Father was made Earl, I became a Countess, and a royal decree married me into The Royal Family.
When Big Sis came to see me off at my wedding, jealousy drove her to plunge a golden hairpin into my neck, silencing me forever.
When we awoke again, we had both been reborn.
This time, she chose to follow Mother without hesitation.
'The fate of wandering and becoming a widow is now yours,' she thought.
But she didn't know that the seemingly harmonious and wealthy Southern Homestead was truly a place of torment.
In this world, all paths depend on how one walks them.