THREE DARK QUEENS
are born in a glen
SWEET LITTLE TRIPLETS
will never be friends
THREE DARK WITCHES
all fair to be seen
TWO TO DEVOUR
one to be queen
On the island of Fennbirn every generation three triplets are born, all equal heirs to the throne...
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"I propose we hold a celebration and feast in your honour," Vivianne says which Nalani raises an eyebrow to. She is surprised at the suggestion and not overly keen.
They have barely gotten back from Beltane and the botched Quickening. Nalani can't say she's feeling in a particularly festive mood. Especially when she remembers the warnings she got at her own performance, she is reminded constantly from that eye mark on her damn hand the Blue Queen left.
It's nonsense. Dead queens should stay dead and not plague the living with tales of the island's destruction. Why on earth did the burden fall on her? Why not Arwen or Carina? She has bigger things to think about then their silly prophecies. She has sisters to kill and her throne to ascend to. So for now Nalani ignores it. She will ponder it more later, she simply doesn't have time to right now.
And Mirabella warning her that the Goddess will try and get into her head? What was that dead ghost raving about?
And of course to make matters more complicated supposedly there's a fourth born whose somehow survived in her own cycle. With a foreign gift? Poisoner? Naturalist? War gifted? Elemental?
Goddess. The Blue Queen could even be a damned oracle or even a shadow. Anything is possible. What are the chances of two phenomenons happening in the same cycle? Shadow and a fourth born. With her luck, this fourth born could even be legion cursed for all she knows.
Yet another threat to her legitimacy and to her reign. She isn't sure how the island would react but since the renewed faith in the queens cycle she isn't sure that the people who have such faith in her would continue to do so if they find out the truth. The truth? Fact or fiction? The dead queens could be lying. Could have some ulterior motive.
But if they're not and the Blue Queen rises then the people may call for her and her sisters heads. There hasn't been a Blue Queen in centuries, they would take it as a symbol from the Goddess. And that nasty High Priestess bitch, Corra, will likely volunteer to kill Nalani herself. If it's all true that is.
A fourth both though. A Blue Queen. Sacred. Something must have happened. Nalani, Carina and Arwen shouldn't even be alive if it's true. Why were they spared? It makes no sense. So for now she shall simply not think on it. It's easier to avoid problems than facing them.
"Why on earth would we hold a celebration now, I have not killed my sisters and the Quickening was hardly a success," Nalani says after zoning back into her conversation with Vivianne with a grumpy expression. Within the wake of recent events she's been in a bad temper, especially since Vivianne has not allowed her to see the others, except Hestia. There's so much to discuss.
"It's perfect, let the people divert their attentions from the events of Beltane back to you again, solely you," Vivianne says with a cool smile as she gestures towards her ward, "at your generously and grace, you could even do a small display of your gifts, just to remind them of your strength at the Quickening and that they are backing the winning queen."
