The Quieter Kingdom
50 Spade
"It's only a drag if it brings you down…"
The tournament begins early tomorrow and the two queens roam the armory after dinner, wandering through gleaming racks of swords and spears.
Lucy flushes at her sister's teasing and she glares at Susan's smirking reflection, mirrored tenfold in the surrounding blades.
"Who does the Valiant Queen favor?" Susan sings-songs, her own sash already neatly tied on the defending champion's weapon.
Lucy nervously approaches a young (new, untried, inexperienced) knight's sword and twists her ribbon around its hilt, bracing for her sister's further pestering. Susan just winks.
It is the upset of the year when the novice contender takes the title.
