REBIRTH OF THE APOCALYPSE QUEEN: This time I choose revenge
The woman squeezed her hand tighter something like reverence settling into her exhausted expression
"You're like something out of a story," she said. "The Apocalypse Queen." They're already calling you that, you know, "Out there Word's spreading.”
Sera went very still.
"That's not," she started, "I'm not any kind of queen; I just prepared.”
"Modesty's a good look on a queen," the woman said with the faintest exhausted smile. "Doesn't change what people are saying, though.”
She moved on before Sera could argue further, disappearing into the crowd of survivors gathered near the fire pit. Priya had rigged for cooking.