This is the Eleventh round of the Title Writing Prompt Challenge. For them unfamiliar with the challenge, a quick summary: three writers offer the fruit of their labor and inspiration based on a given title.
The Round 11 Title — Ode to… — was chosen by Gary. Perry will choose the title for the next round.
The writing challenge has no restrictions and the stories span a wide gamut of genres. The majority of the stories fall in the G and PG rating range with a few perhaps pushing into the soft R-rating. Those ratings are guidelines but they are subjective. If you find a story disturbing because of the topics, language, and/or plot points, stop reading and move on to the next one. The same goes if you are not interested in finishing a story. It may seem like obvious advice, but these days many people go out of their way to experience outrage (and then complain about it).
I explained it in the previous round (HERE) that I’m writing a novel and shoe-horning it into this challenge.
This submission is a continuation of the novel I started in Round 10.
No synopsis because you’re either interested and have already read the first part, in which case you’ll likely read this one as well, or you weren’t interested and also won’t read this part.
Here’s the blurb for this story section of the novel:
Embracing the role of Queen.
One final note. . . 7K words are a lot. Don’t feel you have to read it, and certainly don’t vote for it unless you’re actually looking forward to subsequent chapters.