The Queen and her King

On a warm summer evening Eva sat down around the campfire with her 7 Elfin charges and with their eyes gazing up to the skies above Eva told them the stories of their people. The histories of the Queen and her husband the King!

One day in our land of Fairies, many Moon's and Sun's ago, the King of Fae and his new Queen were walking through the forest to the east of their land. This day was early in their lives long before they had sons of *tree and *shadow. The King talked of his kingdom to the Queen and told her of some of the lesser problems he was having.

"You see" Eva said "Kings before and from other far off lands would never confide in their Queens anything about the kingdom. Queens were to look pretty, be mothers to the children and sometimes only as a connection to an Allie. So this was very strange for the king to do."

As they walked more the Queen responded to the King’s problems with a few ideas. The ideas were so simple that the King laughed unsure as and to why he hadn't thought of them himself. He kissed his Queen and told her that he loved her and her mind.

What the King didn't know was that the Queen was very smart, more so than the King. She knew just how smart she was and was smart enough to hide this from him, but she truly loved her King and Loved him all the more for loving her mind.

As time went on and the Queen had her first child of the tree, a happy boy due to his mother's own happiness during the pregnancy. As it is in fairy a child reflects that of the parents that is most prominent during those all important months. The King took his Queen on more and more walks. Telling her of all the problems he had with his Kingdom. Each time the Queen answered more and more. Soon forgetting herself and letting the King see just how smart she really was.

Now the King did love his Queen but he loved his kingdom, his power and his own life more. The King Devised a plan so wicked and evil to rid himself of his oh so smart Queen. He feared she would soon tire of being his right hand and want to take over completely. The Queen was with child again and had decided to tell the King on their walk that very day. She had started to see that the King felt uneasy with her. She knew she needed to pull back and be what a Queen needed to be for her King.

They walked further this day, and after some time of the king mumbling and the Queen giving useless answers she spoke of the child. Just as the words left her mouth a *Dark Fairy pounced from the bushes with a sword held high to slay the Queen. The King couldn't let his child die, so he tried to stop the Dark Fairy from harming her. Getting in the way of the sword the King was wounded terribly. The Dark Fairy disappeared and the King lay on the earth slowly dying. The Queen was not only smart in terms of being a woman but she was versed in majick not just fairy magic this was known as witchcraft.

She stood over her dying King with no love left in her for him, she told him then that he could live if he gave her everything she wanted. As we know by now the King was selfish and loved his own life so he agreed. She bound him with majick to stay the bleeding and heal the wound.

The King had been truthful, he was going to give her everything she wanted but only until he had what he wanted. He would wait until after his child was born and healthy. He would then have her killed, the Queen knew this and never forgot it. As she and the King spent the rest of their time together they were angry and unhappy. This caused the child to be born of something different than his brother. The Queen gave birth to a son of the Shadow Fae.

She had asked for little from the King, she only wanted safety for her children. For them to grow up with all the things they would need to be good men. The King never denied her these things, they were in fact simple to do as he himself wanted them.

One day shortly after their youngest son's 1st spring, the King asked the queen to dine with him. They walked out toward the east as they had done before. The King carried a basket with food. It was midnight and though the King and tried to make the Queen comfortable about a picnic she knew there was something wrong. She still let him lead her into the forest and under the Full moon the ate. all the while the Queen could feel the poison flow into her system.

"My King" she spoke "do you know that where we sit now is the exact point where you lay dying not so many moons ago? Where I would have died?"

The King looked shocked for only a second and then a smile broke across his face.

"Yes my Queen, I did know this"

"It is fitting" the Queen remarked, speaking with very little breath as the poison was working fast.

"Fitting?" the King questioned looking puzzled.

"Yes my King, it seems fitting that we should die here tonight under the moon, were we should have died moons and suns past"

"We? We are not dying my love. Only you will die here tonight" The King smiled as he watched the Queen’s light slowly fade.

To the King’s surprise The Queen laughed "My King you are but a fool! Do you know nothing of Majick? I bound you that day from a fatal wound, a wound that I have kept you alive from and still do. The moment my heart stops beating and my body turns to dust any majick that I have cast will cease and you my King will start to die again slowly but surely."

With that the Queen took her last breath, whispered her sons names on the breeze and her heart stopped. Quickly her body began to sparkle and float away. The King looked down to see his white tunic turn crimson and there he fell next to what was let of his Queen. Their bodies quickly blew away on the breeze while their two sons slept now orphaned in the castle to the kingdom that was now theirs.