For max, Sister Queens, G

[Raminda]

Title: Sister Queens
Rating: G
For: max
Wishing Tree Prompt: Sarai stays in the Isles AU.
Summary: Sarai returned to the Copper Isles, and now it's time for a coronation.
Notes and Warnings: Written for the Wishing Tree Event, only I didn't sign up, because I wasn't a member at the time. I was informed I should post what I wrote here. This is a drabble in the "strict" sense, menaing it's exactly 100 words. I'm very new to writing drabbles (this is the second one I've ever written) so I hope it's not too confusing to follow what's happening.

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"Everybody rise for the Sister Queens of the Copper Isles!"

Aly watched the coronation from a side table. Sarai and Dove both shone with radiance in their crowns. Aly saw Sarai shoot a quick glance at Zaimid, who sat at the table of honor. She wondered if they would get to marry after all.

"I dreamed about two crowns laying side by side," Sarai had told Aly two days after she and Zaimid had ran away together, "and somehow I knew I had to return."

Nawat squeezed Aly's shoulder.

"They'll do fine," he said.

Aly smiled at him.

"I know."

[Griff]

Ooo, I love the fact you had her run. It keeps that impulsive bravery instead of smothering it.

[Rachy]

I hadn't ever considered (or realised) that they could be the Sister Queens together as the Isles had been in the past, and now I want more. It opens up so many more opportunities

[Katty]

Oh this is lovely! What a great take on the prompt, I really enjoyed that!

[mistrali]

I love fics where the Balitang sisters co-rule, and you've done a wonderful job of fleshing this out in just 100 words!

[Raminda]

@ Griff - Heh, thanks. I was mostly too lazy to think up a scenario where Sarai never ran away (the prompt says 'stays' after all..., but I guess that having her run but come back was easier to come up with because it's truer to her character. I wonder what Zaimid thought when she told him about her dream...

@ Rachy - I actually thought this was where the books themselves were going when I read them for the first time. Dove was obviously going to be queen - no reason to include her otherwise - but I thought they'd end up ruling together. And maybe the Isles would have been the better for it?

@ Katty - Thank you. Writing it came very naturally to me, because as I said this is what I thought would happen when I read the books.

@ mistrali - Thank you! I adore the idea of sister queens too. Writing drabbles is a challenge, but with this time I didn't really have to cut anything I wanted to keep. The whole thing just came to me as one single moment on time, with Aly sitting at the side and watching the new queens.

[max]

Thank you so much Raminda! I loved how well you worked so much significance into just 100 words. And just the whole idea of both of them reigning. This was awesome