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The Fates Aligned
100 Faces in 100 Stories — No20
Jan 20, 2023
I was Queen Titania’s handmaiden before her murder on the Twelfth Night of Summertide. The blame fell on me because I was supposed to be at her chamber door every night. It was worse than the night Puck’s mischief had allowed the queen to make bedfellows with a mule-headed man.
King Oberon had forgiven that slight. He would not forgive his queen’s death within the court he sustained.
The iron burned into my wrists when I was brought before the Tribunal. The guards forced me to my knees.
Then I looked into the unforgiving eyes of the Summer King.
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