"Just because I am a queen doesn't mean that I need a king."
"I am Queen Heda Serafina. I am loyal to my friends and of course....I am loyal to those who don't prove themselves my enemy."
"No one ever deserves what they are given. They have to earn...
"Welcome to your throne room, my king and queen." Echo greeted as we came through the double doors.
"Now that the lift has been repaired, I've doubled the guards on the doors of every floor."
"Expecting trouble?" I asked her while I walked to my throne Lexa had made for me when we became the 13th clan. Roan had it placed next to his own throne at the top of the stairs.
"I trust only Azgeda." I glanced at Roan but he gave me a look to let it go.
I sat down and crossed my legs. "If I may, why do you insist on ruling as Lexa did when it's not what's best for our people? At least tell me there's a reason."
She was cut off from a response when the double doors opened once more.
"Forgive the intrusion your majesties. May we have a word..." Dad? Octavia?
"Privately-" "You can wait like the other ambassadors." Echo told him.
"Then he isn't an ambassador at this moment. He is my father. You would do well to remember that Echo." She looked at me and nodded although reluctantly.
"Echo, leave us..please." Roan ordered.
"We were right to be concerned about trishanakru. Radel is gonna challenge you for control."
"He is challenging Roan or me?" I asked him.
"Roan."
"That's a bold move for a new ambassador." Roan claimed as he stood up and walked down the steps. "So? Let him come."
"Roan, no." He turned to me. "Your still recovering. The law says you can pick someone to fight in your place." I told him.
I stood up and walked over to them. "The clans will never accept a leader who hides behind the law or another warriors blood, Serafina."
"You'll lose. Lexa kicked your ass and that's without a bullet hole in your chest.." Octavia said. Oh did I mention she became one of my personal warriors.
"We should cancel the gathering or delay until your strong enough." My father suggested.
"No. Letting the ambassadors have a voice keeps the peace here. Azgeda holds this city through force alone and the flame won't keep the clans at bay forever. If they unite against your daughter and I, we could lose. And if we lose-"
"They come for skaikru-"
"And the radiation comes for us all." I finished.
My father stepped forward. "No one has to die. The point of our arrangement is to give us time to find a solution to safe everyone."
"And how is that solution coming?" Roan asked with a glare.
"We are working on it. In the mean time I'm here to keep you both in power. Let me talk to the ambassador." Dad says.
I looked to Octavia and give her the slightest nod. She knows what I want done. He needs to disappear.
"Go ahead talk. But...if you fail I will have no choice but to fight."
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The next morning I sat here in the throne room in a dress and pretty head dress that was supposed to be my new crown...one of the Trikru mothers made both of them for me.
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