Heads will roll

For Jolene Rice’s Storytime prompt.

Must include the following:

1. person who laughs at inappropriate times
2. butcher
3. wishes come true
4. shhhh!

When you are the Queen they let you laugh at inappropriate times.

“Off with her head,” followed by a mad cackle. Or three. And then they say: “Oh, it’s just the Queen being a Queen,” and they join in once they realise there are consequences involved to not joining in the reverie.

Then everyone is laughing.

And it becomes less inappropriate to laugh because of reasons.

The last one had the audacity to call Us a butcher. How very droll. And still, We made his head roll. Because when you are the Queen, they let you order someone’s head removed on whimsy. The laughter was nervous, but all courtiers laughed the same.

When you are the Queen, people tend to laugh when you do. And rhyme when it suits a Queen to rhyme, too.

One of Our subjects said, “I wish I wouldn’t hear my Queen laugh when she beheaded someone.”

“Shhhh,” We said. “Your wishes have come true.”

He smiled.

“Off with his head,” We said.

And We held Our laughter until his head dropped into the basket. Then We let peel a mad cackle or three.