(Putting my A/N in bold until I figure out a better way) Here's the prologue! This story is obviously about Winter's mother, Solstice, but we gave her a deeper backstory… I'll be posting the next chapter sometime within the next week. Hope you like it and PLEASE REVIEW! This is a new thing for us and we want it to be as good as possible. Enjoy!
Queen Jannali pored over security feeds of the last twenty-four hours. She found what she was looking for and smiled. A muted scene unfolded in front of her.
Onscreen, a door swung open and a tall young woman with striking blue eyes and a lab coat stepped out. She crossed the room in three strides, coming to a stop in front of the scrawny, drooping form of King Marrok. Jannali snorted. His hulking and generally intimidating glamour couldn't fool cameras. The doctor spoke. Marrok's body shrank even more and he held his head in his hands. Jannali cackled quietly. That would teach him.
Not that Jannali had been any more faithful than her husband, of course. But he had shown pure, glamourless affection for that lowly maid.
The door on the netscreen opened again, this time for a man carrying a small white bundle. King Marrok straightened in his chair. He reached out to take his newborn daughter. Gently he cradled the infant in his arms, smiling.
The queen bit back a harsh laugh. What a fool her husband was. He thought the child was safe from her.
She refocused on the screen just in time to see Marrok whisper his baby daughter's name.
Solstice.