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She was the queen

The guilt and the horror and the ht stay with her forever, but she was the queen

Princess Selene was pronounced dead that evening Levana made the announcement to the people from the palace’s broadcast center The video showed pictures of the young princess while Levana struggled to keep her voice soled from success It was not happiness--she was very sad to know that victory had required such an appalling act But success was success, victory was victory She had done it and now, as the country edy

Little Selene, barely three years old, would hardly even make a blip in their history The memory of their little princess would be entirely eclipsed with the reign of Queen Levana

The fairest queen that Luna had ever known

For once, she was satisfied She had Evret She had her crown

She did not yet have an heir, but now that she was the last of the royal bloodline, surely fate would smile on even this request She was all that was left Not having a child of her oas not an option After all, Winter couldn’t grow up to be queen No Levana would have a child

With Selene gone, these were the new thoughts that engulfed her How she would be a great ruler and how the people would love her with all their hearts And hohen Levana finally gave Evret a child of their own, he too would love her, finally, evenSolstice

She wasthe life she’d alanted for herself, and she was close to it now So very, very close

But only a week had gone by when Levana began to notice the change

The way people dropped their eyes when she walked past, not with norining it? Perhaps even disgust

The way there was a new coldness fro their tongues, wanting to say so not to

The way that Evret asked her one night why she had gone to get Winter that day Why she had brought it on herself to take Winter to the doctor’s appoint the nanny was capable of

"What do you hter, and I hardly get to spend time with her these days Why shouldn’t I take her to her appointments?"

"It’s just…"

She tensed "It’s just what?"

"Nothing It’s nothing I don’t knohat I was thinking"

He kissed her, and that was the last that was said of it

But all this she could have ignored Let theuilty Let them accuse her behind closed doors As the queen of Luna and the only royal descendant of the Blackburn bloodline, no one would dare accuse her to her face