Speaker: Queen to Aaron Spenser Permission: Queen’s own A QUEEN DOES NOT tell stories. She tells the truth. Even her lies are true. That is the prerogative of Royalty. So what I am about to tell you is, of course, true. What you choose to believe, seeing that you are neither a Royal nor of our world, is your own concern. But know this, man from the sky, I am the Queen and I speak true. Only a Queen can bear Queens and since a Queen speaks the truth, whomever she designates as the father of her children is so. If you do not understand this about our world, you understand nothing. We grieve for our dead and dying in a way that makes the passage beautiful and gives the grieven one immortality. So our greatest grievers, the ones who bring many mourners into the lines, who give us life after death, are the ones we cherish the most. We do many things for them, things that may appear not true but become true with the telling. If I choose to name Lina-Lania my child and you the father, it will be so.
