Queen's Tears

The witch queen’s tears filled the open chamber in a flood, washing away knights and seated lords, servants and seekers. Those who didn’t hit the court’s marbled walls fell screaming off the tower’s edge. Everyone but the Horned Man, who strode forward through the surging water as it drained around him. He began to applaud.

The queen looked up, eyes wild with anguish, stained glass cracking as she clasped the Messenger’s broken body to her chest.

“See?” the Horned Man said, delight plain and dry as sun-bleached bone. “Your powers have not forsaken you.”

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Written for The Prediction. This week’s challenge words were applaud, court, and flood.

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