#with flavoring for newer 1003 worldbuilding but fundamentally the same

[miralines]

The Queen of Hearts <3

*excellent* hehe…

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Hearts is beginning to think there’s something wrong with her.

Perhaps it started with the name. She was once Red-993412, but after things changed, after it became just her and her sisters and that pack of cards, it had made some kind of sense to have one. It felt… correct, somehow.

But the longer she and her sisters go on, the more she has to make do with no commander and broken equipment and scavenged food that is in no way the rations she was meant to eat–

She knows her purpose. She is a Rose Red. *She is a Rose Red.*

So why does she have no orders? Why does she have to look at her sisters and command them as if she were their colonel? Why does it seem more and more, the longer this goes on, right somehow?

Sometimes she feels like King Cole has forgotten this place. That no matter how long she serves him, she will never fulfill her mission. It will never matter.

It makes her head ache, but her sisters depend on her.

What else can she do but continue?

What is there for a Rose Red, even one who feels half-mad, but to march on?