happily ever after

[Scarlet Nebula]

What follows is me chasing up a random idea in my head, I’ll explain what inspired it in a few days but for now I’ll leave you to guess.

That is often more fun.

Many years ago there was a girl who liked puzzles, she longed for something more to her life and thus enlightened beings of white visited her.

The beings of white offered the gifts with but one price; eventually she would be betrayed and destroyed, torn asunder upon the jagged rocks of an unknown shore.

Readily she accepted these gifts for the gifts were unlike those of this world or any other beyond that of the enlightened. Thus the girl became the angelic queen with skin of silver and the heart of a mortal.

She ruled a kingdom like all queens, a gleaming white city in the blackness of the night’s sky. The Queen had her advisors but most importantly she had her consort one who had pledged his heart and soul to her, as did she to him.

The consort schemed with others, the queen knew of this yet listened to her heart and waited for an explanation. The knife in the back came as foretold and upon this point came a revelation; her skin was that of a mirror glass as it cracked and broke apart.

In her final moments the queen realised that she had only ever been a mirror to his ambition as she slipped though the cracks of her reality into a cold oblivion.

Thus upon the shore her broken form was found, as though a mirror had been shattered upon the rocks and young girl saw a puzzle in the broken Queen’s ruined form before the Enlightened came to offer her three gifts.

[Weird_chaos_thingy]

Love the story it has the whole legend theme, good job

[Dark Lioness HLTB]

Okay that was deeply weird.

Part of me thinks the girl at the end of the story was the girl at the start. Which could of course mean the puzzles were the queen she would eventually become.

That’s a Paradox! Damn you!

[Hard A**]

I like it, to me it smacks of Lewis Carroll and also a favourite short story of mine by a certain Micheal Moorc0ck, which features peripheral characters such as the Iron Orchid. I don't have the book with the story in it, unfortunately, so I cannot relate even the title.

I'm not going to spend time trying to work your piece out, I don't think it was designed for that. Its a parable maybe. or a myth. Whatever it is, I like the imagry, and the cyclic nature. I hope to see more of your work.

[Twilight Dancer]

Okay that was deeply weird.

Part of me thinks the girl at the end of the story was the girl at the start. Which could of course mean the puzzles were the queen she would eventually become.

That’s a Paradox! Damn you!

The girl "could" be the queen personally i think it's the next queen and the puzzle is her understanding her predecessor’s downfall (the remains of her body) and becoming a better ruler for it.

[Scarlet Nebula]

Though I had plans as to why I was writing it, it doesn’t make anyone else’s interpretation of it incorrect. I wanted to write something that made people stop and think.

The story is one of the oldest there is, that of love and betrayal epic or not we’ve all suffered the sting of betrayal and even the most successful of us have fallen.

Weird Chaos Thingy in private picked up on a detail that I feared had been lost in the transfer to paper, I was happy to have reached at least one of my readers. The Consort never saw the queen, but rather he only saw himself upon her reflective skin and thus only ever pledged his heart and soul to himself and his aspirations.

The prophecy of the queen’s predestined demise and my specifically mentioning a “mortal� heart well to quote the movie Donnie Darko “every living thing on this planet dies alone� humans are fortunate in that we can claim some fleeting moment of power and obtain a lasting legacy and for that we shouldn’t thank god but our sentience (our enlightenment if you wish).

Finally some people who’ve read this have asked who or what the queen is, the answer is that the queen is whoever you want her to be. However to me the queen is my dearly missed mother. She ran a small business, organised charitable events and loved my brother and I dearly but in the end the queen was human while the kingdom: the memory, the legacy is something more that needs to be cherished.

Thank you everyone who had the time to read this, especially those of you who commented.

[Twilight Dancer]

Finally some people who’ve read this have asked who or what the queen is, the answer is that the queen is whoever you want her to be. However to me the queen is my dearly missed mother. She ran a small business, organised charitable events and loved my brother and I dearly but in the end the queen was human while the kingdom: the memory, the legacy is something more that needs to be cherished.

That's quite personal and very brave, i'm still not sure where the betrayal bit comes into it though.

[Scarlet Nebula]

I don't know anyone who hasn't suffered a betrayal in his or her lifetime, it may not have been the killing blow like it was in my story but it’s still significant.