closed starter for @brokenwinged
keep it together, keep it together clarion βΈ» you must keep it together. it was an internal mantra that played over and over and over again in the young queen's mind as the day went on in nothing but a blur to her crystalline eyes. she could hardly believe it; elvira was gone. not just gone for the day, but gone forever. returned to the stars as if she were never here to begin with. clarion had been so confident at her coronation, elvira looked so proud of her and they had finally bridged the chasm that had once always divided them as queen and soon-to-be-queen.Β
now, that confidence was wavering. she wasn't just pixie hollow's queen βΈ» she was pixie hollow's only queen. clarion had received all the wisdom elvira could ever bestow upon her. no more would come. this was it. was she truly ready for this? had she ever been ready to lose her mentor, the only one who could truly guide her through this role she was born to be?
finally, the long day was over. elvira's memorial was planned for the following day thanks to help from her ministers and the sun had begun to set behind those winter mountains that clarion avoided looking at βΈ» except tonight. tonight, clarion looked out from her balcony at those familiar peaks and she felt her resolve begin to utterly shatter. trembling, the queen could only keep her feet on the ground for mere seconds before she took off; wings glimmering behind her as with a neck-break speed, she headed for the border of spring and winter. to the root of the pixie dust tree that connected her world and his.
she had told him βΈ» milori, do not haunt this border like a ghost; she didn't say anything about herself. clarion's landing was anything but graceful as she hit the warm dirt of the spring side, pausing for only a moment before she approached the bridge and from there; the queen of pixie hollow crumbled.
clarion fell to her knees, sobs shaking her shoulders as she could feel the cool air of winter hitting her arms with it's frosty kiss. how welcomed that was, how it painfully reminded her of him so much. he would be deep into the winter woods, likely still planning winter's own memorial for their former queen βΈ» how cruel was she, to deny them all the chance to mourn together? how cruel, to deny herself the support and care of the one she ached for most?












