Oh, darling. I know you think you've got us cornered and in a way, I suppose you do, but believe me when I say we bow to no one. Especially not an adorable little munchkin like yourself. Oh, I could just eat you up.

We are one being, not only in physicality. It wasn’t always like this, where we share a body and a mind. We used to only share a mind- well memories, ya know, even so, we were separate. I had a body, a life, a kingdom- but I well died and then here we are- stuck together. 

Where I’m from, people in power cannot step down. The people already hated me, so for my family’s sake, I did not want to be the first to try. Naturally, I found some other way out of the oncoming revolution. By feeding into it... You see, I gave them what they wanted. A big bad to fight. They were going to take the castle and my sister and my daughters. I wasn’t losing another child. I forced them out. I made them leave, somewhere safe. Where they couldn’t hurt them, where they wouldn’t know to look. And I gave them an excuse back to power. I handed everything over to the citizens in exchange for my family’s safety. And then… I went into the crowd as the evil queen they all thought I was. They wanted a villain. I gave them one. Whether it’s what needed to happen or not, I don’t know anymore. But I went into the crowd and fought them off. I never hurt them of course- I could never hurt them… I just used a stunning spell and knocked them over. I… I don’t know how it happened. I think I hesitated or paused for breath. But I look up and then… A man, he was a wealthy farmer, I tutored his daughters- his weapon was a spear… It entered here, (points to torso, the space just between her ribs.) And exited a little further down. (Pause) And the air went still. As though they’d all stopped in their tracks. I pushed forward, about to strike him. I… I was almost there I could have just made it. But of course, they’d never have let that happen. They saw I was weak and thought I’d hurt him. (Deep breath, swallows lump in her throat) Then it was a sword. From behind. It exited here… (puts a hand over the right side of her stomach, just below the rib) It only hurt for a few moments. Next thing I knew I was falling asleep on the ground with a dull throbbing in my head and- well everywhere as my heart began to give up on my soon to be corpse...