Refusing Love As A Queen

Fate once carved a blade across my throat, leaving me to die without a burial place. –This is how Adele described her previous life. As queen, she governed the Roland Empire with great order, yet her reward was the guillotine. The moment she was reborn, she learned– After her death, struggles for the throne tore Roland apart, destroying the empire’s glory. All she was became but a single line in the history books: “She was an able monarch, sadly unable to defy destiny.” Returning to the night of the coup, the Queen sneered at this “undeniable destiny.” Later– Those who had betrayed her fell beneath her throne, utterly mesmerized: The knight whose loyalty was once scorned now only begged to die in battle for her. Hypocritical nobles scoured the earth themselves just to gift her jewels. The bishop who loathed heretics submitted to her, forsaking his faith. … For her, they waged war; for her, they penned thousands of love letters; for her, they were devoted until death. The Queen, seemingly debauched yet cold as iron within, sat high upon her throne: Heh. … “You will never find another woman like her. She was bewitching, mad, and ambitious; flirtatious and charming, yet utterly ruthless.” –Thus the Imperial history books summarized the life of Adele the Great.