She does not mark her time in Matoya's cave, under the great witch's tutelage, but when her teacher kisses her forehead again, for only the second time in her apprenticeship (the first at its inception) and says, "It is time for your to go forth, child," she does not question it.
Matoya is wise beyond Sara's reckoning; her father is on his deathbed, and she returns in time to accept the crown from his hands.
At her coronation, the Warriors of Light arrive.
She kisses their foreheads, each in turn, to grant them a witch-queen's blessing and guidance, and her leave to travel throughout the land of Cornelia, for a witch-queen's demenses have no need of heroes to defend them.
She will protect her lands as she may herself, for a queen's body and person belong always to her state as the state belongs to her, and the warriors will go forth to meet their destiny. That is as it should be.
When the fiends come, it is Queen Sara's powers that hold them at bay from Cornelia's borders. And though a part of her that remembers the girl who broke from Garland's grasp to become Matoya's apprentice longs to join the warriors in their quest, she knows that her place is here, to defend and not to bring the battle to the enemy.
There are others for that, and they are as the swords in her hands though she has no need of swords to wound. But they will fly true, and when they are done, whatever the outcome, she will hold Cornelia still.
That is the way of a witch-queen.
A/N: Also, here, have a link to me going to town on the idea of Ashe/Vayne where he is more of a tragic antihero than a pure villain, and also more with a scheming!Ashe!
Blitzkiss! "Queen of Many Things", Sara/WoL, G
Matoya is wise beyond Sara's reckoning; her father is on his deathbed, and she returns in time to accept the crown from his hands.
At her coronation, the Warriors of Light arrive.
She kisses their foreheads, each in turn, to grant them a witch-queen's blessing and guidance, and her leave to travel throughout the land of Cornelia, for a witch-queen's demenses have no need of heroes to defend them.
She will protect her lands as she may herself, for a queen's body and person belong always to her state as the state belongs to her, and the warriors will go forth to meet their destiny. That is as it should be.
When the fiends come, it is Queen Sara's powers that hold them at bay from Cornelia's borders. And though a part of her that remembers the girl who broke from Garland's grasp to become Matoya's apprentice longs to join the warriors in their quest, she knows that her place is here, to defend and not to bring the battle to the enemy.
There are others for that, and they are as the swords in her hands though she has no need of swords to wound. But they will fly true, and when they are done, whatever the outcome, she will hold Cornelia still.
That is the way of a witch-queen.
A/N: Also, here, have a link to me going to town on the idea of Ashe/Vayne where he is more of a tragic antihero than a pure villain, and also more with a scheming!Ashe!