Long May She Reign

 

Tablo reader up chevron

Introduction

"Long live the Queen, long live the--"

"Do we really want her to keep living?" My friend whispered to me during yet another one Queen Elizabeth's Parades. It was 2050, and the queen had been alive since as long as any one who was alive could remember. Actually even those who were dead still remembered her being alive.

What they didn't know is how it was at all possible. 

 

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

Chapter 1

Perfect pale skin, the same silver hair, and that knowing very majestic look. It hadn't changed over the last 40 years and people had stopped asking why. After awhile people start to accept that things just happen. Besides no one wants to argue with the queen. 

There would always be the skeptics and the scientists that wanted to get their hands on her for the sake of science and discovery. Luckily she had a loyal staff, a very loyal staff. No one was actually allowed a private audience with her. Everything was done through the Screens. The only time she was seen in person by the public was during the Queen's Parades that happened every few months or so.

Amazingly she'd outlived her children and her grandchildren now looked as old as she did.

I was one of the skeptics. I went to every single parade and watched, looking for any sign of difference about her appearance. I knew there had to be a difference. Either that or they'd been fooling us all along and simply made masks of queen's face and this was a stunt double so to speak. 

I knew that this would be my last chance to find out because the queen was said to be journeying west and no one was saying when she would be coming back. Could it be that this would be the last Queen's Parade for our seemingly ageless Queen? I'd been planning it since the last parade. I'd simply dress up in a servant's uniform and be granted easy access into the more private parts of the castle. 

That was how I had ended up here. Apparently the looking glass was a two way mirror, probably so that security could keep eyes on the queen at all times. The Queen had just entered the room and was removing her long red fur-lined robe. She seemed tired although her face remained unchanged. And that's when it hit me. Her face remained unchanged. 

There was no emotion there. None. She sat down and I fully expected to take off a mask and show her real face. But she didn't. All I could conclude is that her face had simply frozen in time and somehow her body had stopped aging too. 

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...
~

You might like Nabilah Safa's other books...