Order and Chaos

lunch break

"All right, it's fixed now," I said. "I had to tilt the entire universe to the left a bit, but the thing that shouldn't be there seems to be gone. So I'm going to have lunch now."

"Mary, you're a ghoul. You don't need to eat any more," Commun said.

"Maybe I don't need to, but tilting the entire universe is a draining task."

"You shouldn't feel fatigued, either."

"Well, I do! It's probably just because I'm doing this weird cosmic stuff I don't even understand. It should be fine after I eat something."

But what was I going to eat?

>start a fire, it will be exciting

I decided that it would be best to just roast something up. I wasn't sure just what yet. So I lit a fire in the castle halls and figured I'd wait for something edible to show up.

And then an attendant rudely came in and doused it with a bucket of water.

"Excuse me," I said to the attendant, "I was using that."

"It was a fire hazard!" she protested.

"Do you know who I am?"

"Yeah, you're the Princess. Not the Queen. Queen's fire safety rules are still in effect. Good day, Your Highness."

Oh. Right.

"Commun, why am I not Queen yet?"

"Well, we haven't had a coronation ceremony. Partly because you weren't here, partly because the Royal Court is too busy fighting amongst themselves to actually start arranging one."

"Well, I'm here now. So let's go make me a queen!"

"I'll submit a petition to the Court on your behalf right away, so they can hopefully get started." Commun sighed.

No, that wouldn't do. The Royal Court was far too incompetent to make me Queen in a timely manner. I'd need to do something drastic to get them to move things along.

But what?