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[risegloriana]

[When the video clicks on, it's Elizabeth, but she's... not just her, she's dressed like a queen again, not the simpler plain dresses she keeps herself too. Cream silk decorated with pearls, her hair neatly arranged underneath the shining crown of diamonds set in gold. If it's heavy, it doesn't show, she tilts her head up, and she's elated, her

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[dowhatimust]

[Video]

[The angel fell to one knee, and bowed his head respectfully downward.]

All Hail Regina Gloriana. Long may she reign.

[risegloriana]

[Elizabeth hadn't been expecting that, she expected the usual things, polite conversation at best. But that? That was so much of home, of gestures she'd given up since she came here -- and she remember when she thought she would never be treated with any kind of respect, any kind of adoration from anyone. Let alone an angel. She bit her lip trying to keep her own joy contained, but it so very difficult. But she bows her head back, lower than she does to most -- because he is an angel, that is higher than any prince of earth. That she knows, and had said herself so often, believed so completely her whole life.]

Please, rise. Thank you Castiel.

[dowhatimust]

[Castiel does so, tipping his head down respectfully.]

Many happy salutations on the day of your birth, Elizabeth.

[risegloriana]

[she can't help but giggle at him, or as low as her laughter was, as near as she got to giggling.]

Your grace, it is not my birthday.

[dowhatimust]

Ah! [A pause, then a tilt of the head.] But it is sort of a birthday, is it not? It is the day you realized all you could become.

[risegloriana]

[she tilts her head a little. It was, if that was the train of thought that far. She'd been a child, such a child. A year of ruling had fixed that quickly. Child to adult, faster than blinking.]

In some manners, yes, I did become. I... was no longer just a threat. I was a queen, and the old fears faded. I was free, for the first time in years.