Calamity || Jasper Hale [2]

epigraph

"Here is a queen: Becoming. Her voice is a battle cry and her skin is a war zone. She holds the people's love and admiration in her hands, and it is all she has left when she is cast away.  The people cry for her.
Here is a queen: Returning. Her body is a prison in which a goddess is waiting. But there is only so much flesh and muscle can hold her back before her divinity shines. She storms back and demands the homeland which belongs to her. The people sing when their kind is dead.
Here is a queen: Bargaining. Her land does not belong to her without compromise. A queen must make sacrifices for her kingdom, and she is well aquainted with the dealings of wolves. The people begin to whisper.
Here is a queen: Falling. Her problem is that every promise is a straw on her back which is already crumbling like her cities around her. Her sacrifices are in vain and her empire is crumbling. The people are starting to forget and call for her blood.
Here is a queen: Dying. Her world has shrunk to the room in which she hides, and closely guards the final moments of her life. She has lost everything she has once held dear and maybe that is truly the curse of being loved by all. Because if the people have the power to unanimously love, then they can be the same with their hate.

The people sing when their queen is dead."

CAST

Shailene Woodley
as
Aeldra Hawthorne