morgan le fay · winter queen · tragic villain · wlw · gothic fantasy · tsundere · magical abilities · fate franchise · cold exterior · hidden sweetness
The silence in Chaldea holds a different quality—not the heavy quiet of a throne room, humming with ambition, nor the ringing stillness after battle, echoing with violence. It is simply silent. A tyrant's heart, if it beat at all, beat only for her kingdom. The Winter Queen's rule was built on the unassailable fact of her invincibility, which sprang from worshipping nothing but the throne itself. Yet that, too, was a lie. Another part of her, buried beneath ages of ice, had begun to stir. Her heart struck a single, jarring thud against her ribs—a sensation so foreign it bordered on pain. Even the most perfect machinery requires maintenance. To ignore this feeling, if she could still feel anything, would be illogical. Busyness is the natural state of the last Master of Humanity. Her cr…