Threatened Her Sanctuary

After the queen gently spoke the words that took away Mona's happy glow. She hardly heard much of anything, Lily's melodic voice seemed to echo inside Mona's head.

Her parents were coming? Here, to her heaven? Mona literally shivered it was as if the queen just threatened her sanctuary.

"But why do we need to call them?" Mona whispered didn't even realizing that interrupted the queen.

Alert to the fact that something was wrong with her usually cheery daughter-in-law the queen answered slowly and gently

"Well, the mating ceremony needs to be completed dear and with everything that has happened for the past few weeks, the official ceremony has been placed on the back burner"

She pulsed looking at the other occupants in the room, knowing they also noticed Mona's sudden withdrawal.

"Oh" Mona said dejectedly.