Starry Isles discussion

"Well," she sighed blowing some hair out of her eyes. She plunked another pile of graded papers on the mahogany wood desk.

"Mother?" The door creaked open. The Queen looked up and asked, "What is the matter dear?" From the worried tone her daughter was using she could tell it was urgent.

"Outside. Please...I'm really frightened." The Queen took the girl in her arms. "Do not worry my darling." Then she peered out the grand window. "Oh." She said, startled. Outside, lined in rows were thousands, maybe millions of soldiers standing around the palace ground boundaries. "Fine. Your allowed to worry a weeny bit. I am not afraid though." And she pushed back her chair and walked out of her office and into the living room several stories down.(To be continued in the Grand Living Room)

The Queen sat down several hours later in the evening...