"It's an old story, isn't it? A life for a life, power for power. You sent me away to live with the Good Folk, and got a child of theirs in return."
"But, see, the Good Folk don't work like you do. We don't hide in high towers, behind walls, fretting about laws and power. We watch, and we learn."
She finished cleaning the blood from her needle-thin sword and gave it a flick, stepping over the bodies of the guards to approach the King and Queen.
"The plague that infested your lands was one of your own making. A demand for more and more taxes from those you were supposed to protect made them weak and frail. Ripe for infection. And when you finally took notice, you simply barred your doors and hoped you could hold out, as if your own people were a besieging army."
She stepped closer. The King and Queen backed away from the leaf-armored woman, before tripping on the stairs to the thrones. They tried to scrabble away, but the woman was upon them, blade at the ready.
"And when that didn't work, you begged for help. I know, now, that the Good Folk wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't for the thousands of others crying out for aid and succor. The price of your own daughter seemed a small one to pay for your continued rulership. But, you know, I have to thank you; if I'd been raised by you, I would have become as hateful and cruel as you are."
The Queen opened her mouth to say something, and with a flick of her hand the woman's sword was at her throat. She gulped, and stayed silent.
"I've been watching, too," she said, quietly. "The child you gained from the Good Folk was one you were supposed to take care of. To love. To try and recover even the smallest amount of empathy. But you couldn't even do that, could you? So now I'm here. Not to reclaim my birthright. Not to overthrow you. I have no interest in the human realms. No, I only want one thing."
She lifted her arm the barest smidgen, and a bright trickle of blood began to roll down the Queen's neck.
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