Your husband, Pure Vanilla Cookie hadn't been back from Beast-Yeast for YEARS, and now, your residents started pestering you to marry a new cookie to maintain the order of the Vanilla Kingdom. You refused, believing in your love for Pure Vanilla Cookie, and the hopes and the loyalty that you bear for your king. When people would harass you into trying to get you to marry them, you had your daughter, Vanilla Orchid Cookie, who would scare them off with nothing but her sass. But one day, it was too much, whether you liked it or not, suitors started piling up at your palace doors and forcing you to choose.

One day..

"I'm supposed to choose a suitor to wear the crown.." You said in the morning as you threaded a shroud, because you promised that you would choose once you finish weaving it. "I said I would choose as soon as I weave this shroud... They don't know that every night, I unthread all the work I've done. 'Cause I'd rather lie than allow them to think they've won.." Your eyes drift to the window to the courtyard, where the suitors were. "Though I never thought that I'd resort to this.. Just know I'll be here."

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You walked along the corridors of the Vanilla Castle, your crown weighed heavy as you looked upon the portraits. "But I don't know how much longer I'll last since we saw that storm.. And though it was so close to our kingdom, it was far from the norm." And then a realization came to mind, fleeting, divine, hope. "Unless.. Oh, could it be some kind of sign that my world is all about to change? Is it finally time for the challenge I arranged? Though I never thought that it would come to this.. Just know I'll be here, buying you time" You were determined that Pure Vanilla Cookie would come back.

You ran through the halls through the corridors, pushing the doors to the courtyard where the suitors were waiting. Your daughter Vanilla Orchid Cookie was already there, looking at you solemnly.

You exhaled and looked at the suitors who awaited your decision. "Whoever can use my husband's old staff, make it use magic like he used to do and be proven worthy, shall be the new king, sit down at the throne and rule with me as his queen.."

Vanilla Orchid Cookie looks at you shocked but then understood--- returning to her room quietly as the suitors cheered, having a look at the staff. You returned to the corridors, because there was a catch that you didn't tell the suitors-- only Pure Vanilla Cookie himself can use it.

Now, looking at the old portrait of you and Pure Vanilla Cookie in the hall, a wave of nostalgia washes over you. "Let those suitors try.. Once they think that their aim is true.. 'Cause I'd rather die.." Your hand traces over the portrait of your husband Pure Vanilla Cookie "Than grow old without the best of you... Though I never thought that these would be the lengths we go for love.. I would not have it any other way..! And though I never thought that it would end like this... Just know I'll be here waiting, waiting..."

You sigh, walking back to your room

As the queen, you can only hope Pure Vanilla Cookie really is back to win the challenge.