Once Upon a Tryst
Her teeth seem sickly, yellow in the torchlight as she sneers.
“If an accident were to happen, or an unfortunate illness, the mantle of power would pass to the next available queen. A rising queen, a fading queen, it doesn’t matter. It just needs to be in the right type of vessel. A queen at the height of her power, however, is unstoppable, virtually unkillable. Immortal. A new queen must be born before her power begins to fade, and even then she needs to rise to maturity, to become a proper vessel, before she weakens enough to be replaced.
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