*Please bear in mind that this is a rough noncon scene. You shouldn’t proceed further if such scenes cause you discomfort. In that case, I have a variety of consensual stories on my profile that you may enjoy instead.*
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It wasn’t meant to be this way. Nearly three centuries of prosperity burning in the late afternoon sun. But so it was—how often the third generation grew complacent, leading her familial legacy to abject failure. And Melian was that—the granddaughter of the legendary Elven Empress Aliyora. It was she who had built the Elven Kingdom into the thing of legends. That wicked empress ruled with an iron fist and a poisonous kiss, luring many a simple-minded man to his demise.
And now…now Aliyora’s granddaughter glanced up at her portrait—positioned in the center of a trio of like portraits that hung above the Throne of Thorns. The Elven Queen squeezed her eyes tight—the brilliant blue of an unimpeded spring suddenly burning red—and turned to her advisor. “Report, Reginald.”
The elf was lanky and tall in his gold-fringed royal uniform, “The outer wall has fallen, the inner wall breached. There are so many, my Highness. I’m afraid…I’m afraid our intelligence was mistaken.”