Fine fortuna

The Queen was dead. That hadn't been a considered possibility - but, she was gone. The news passed in a wave of shock across existence, and all the usual commotion and misgivings fell to silence. Of course, there's always someone that's gonna take advantage of that kind of moment, and nobody mentioned much about it when it started. But the balance began to waver. The Queen was dead: As balance failed, the full weight of that realization fell, and - realization that a replacement had to be located. Every decision the Queen had ever made had been sound, until that last one: It didn't make sense - it left her dead, it left existence out of balance. Worse yet - she left human. Sixth in a series of monsters: Monsters of Amapa, Twisting through the waves, T3W: Just another day (short), The replacements, Return, A scourge rising from the land of rain, fine fortuna, The history of Ech (short), Assignment of order TQ-1