Aleena lay awake in bed late at night, listening to the soft sound of Manic's breathing. Her other two children lay asleep in their own rooms down the hall. Manic had chosen to sleep on the floor in her room rather than receive his own room after they had regained control of the city and moved back into the palace. He had said he wanted to 'make up for lost time'. She chuckled as she remembered that.

Her children been asleep for hours, but Aleena herself was too distressed to sleep. She had only just been reunited with her children after many years of separation, and she wanted to be able to spend more time with them, but she had so much to do. Her kingdom needed her guidance now more than ever to restore things to the way they once were, before Robotnik had taken over and destroyed everything. 'He'll be dead tomorrow,' she reminded herself. His trial had taken place two days ago and had been sentenced to execution on charges of sedition, or high treason. The execution would take place in the morning at 9:45, and everyone was invited to the celebration afterwards.

Aleena knew the streets and citizens of Mobius better than ever before, after all those years of wandering the streets, constantly searching for her children, waiting for the time to come for them to reunite and bring an end to Robotnik's reign of terror. She also knew that because of this, she would be a better queen than she ever had been. Maybe Robotnik had done some good.

Her problem was that, as both a queen and a mother, she had two different instincts, her queenly instinct and her motherly instinct, that were telling her two different things. Her queenly instinct told her that her duty to her subjects was more important, but her motherly instinct told her that her duty to her children was more important. What was she going to do? She decided she had better get some sleep- for the good of both her subjects and her children- and think about it in the morning. She thought about her three beautiful, dear children once more before she closed her eyes- and she fell asleep immediately.