CROWNED BY BLOOD
Even our enemies paused in their assault, transfixed by the impossible scene unfolding a queen giving birth in the middle of a cosmic battlefield, attended by the spirit of her dead husband and guarded by children who wielded elements like extensions of their own bodies.
And there, in the eye of chaos, with battle raging around us across seventeen dimensions, I gave birth to impossibility.
The child that emerged was not merely flesh and blood, though he was certainly those things. He was essence made manifest, spirit given form, hope crystallized into living reality. Born in light that made the surrounding stars seem dim by comparison, his first cry was not the wail of fear that marks most b