The writing blog of ks_claw

Found an old drabble and decided to share it.
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The Queen of Hearts is everything one could want in a ruler. She is wise and beautiful, a skilled politician and an even better tactician. She has the final say in any decision-making, especially when it comes to any matter in her kingdom of Wonderland.

But there is another side to her, the other side of the card some call it, the Madness which is in all who live in Wonderland.

As wise and beautiful as she is, there is no kindness in the Queen. When she is angry, the last thing you want are those sharp, green eyes resting on you. If you have crossed her, you will always be forced to prostrate yourself before Her Majesty, for none may face her on equal terms when they are at her mercy.

What makes her so terrifying, is simply the manner in which she speaks. Where a predecessor of hers would often scream like a banshee and throw a tantrum like a spoiled child, this Queen of Hearts has a different nature.

She is the dreaded quiet before the storm, the ruler of Wonderland in more ways than one. The lurking chill of madness and fear that slowly creeps into your dreams. She does not yell, or shout or throw objects at her soldiers or subjects.

Hers is a gentle voice, sometimes as gentle as a breeze. And it makes it all the more terrifying, when she is truly enraged.

If you have wronged Her Majesty, The Queen of Hearts, she will listen to the guards as they list up your crimes, be it anything from having been at the wrong tea party, to wearing the wrong hat on a Sunday. And if she finds your crime most offensive, she will turn and slowly point at you with her scepter, and speak the most dreaded words of all, in the most calmest, and strangely, most gentle of voices:

“Off with their head.”