“Do you wish to be led by an absent queen?” the preacher spat at the slowly growing
“Do you wish to be led by an absent queen?” the preacher spat at the slowly growing flock before him. “A coward who left her kingdom for dead and hid until the war was over, only to return when the throne was scrubbed clean off the blood of the innocent? Is this the ill-starred sky under which you want to raise your children and their children and their children’s children? Your Crown failed to protect her so beloved sister, let her be murdered and ravaged in front of her very eyes as if foredestined for slaughter. What will she do for you?” The rag-clad man paused, his glassy eyes mirroring the misty morning as he took stock of his audience. When he spoke again, his words were tinged in hushed warning. “Be startled not when you wake up in the clutches of night, amidst the screams of your babes butchered by a wolf you blithely dressed in soft white wool.”a little portrait of my oc Wanda i’ve been messing around with ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ -- source link
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