I picked up the paper again, looking it over in disbelief. “We all owe you the deepest of apologies.” “I hope one day you might forgive me for my part in this,” the holy man-Langston-said. “Your Majesty,” the same holy man said urgently. I sank into a curtsy, and he bowed in return.Īnd then he dashed from the room, from the castle, from my world. It took everything I had not to cry in front of him. I squeezed it tight one last time and put my hands by my side.
I will tell everyone at home of your new reign, and I will write you as soon as I can.” Even if I’m gone, you are not alone in this. Look at everything you’ve already done,” he assured me. How was I supposed to let him go? After everything we’d been through, after everything we’d finally said, how was I supposed to go even a minute without him? But know that you will always have an ally in Isolte.” He was right.Įtan pulled my hand to his lips again. I have a kingdom of my own awaiting my return.”
I don’t think these gentlemen want a foreign king here as they discuss matters of state with their very new queen. I turned to Etan, expecting him to follow. But of all the ways I’d imagined this day ending, none had led me to this, and I couldn’t wrap my mind around being in possession of a kingdom. And, as he had no heirs, that meant the crown went to me. I was, in the most bureaucratic sense, Jameson’s wife. There is much to discuss,” a holy man said. Many were shielding their faces from the sight of a dead body, and many more were speaking furtively, trying to understand how so much had happened in such a few moments. In an instant the holy men were beside me as the guards carefully escorted the courtiers from the Great Hall. Kissing my hand and then touching it to his temple, he whispered, “Your Majesty.”Ī tremble rose from my toes and went all the way to the ends of my hair. “Long live the queen.”Īnd I stood in silence as an entire room of nobles looked to me.īESIDE ME, ETAN WENT TO a knee. A holy man went over to him and placed a hand beneath his nose, feeling for a breath.
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