The Crystal Queen

Written for Lillie McFerrins’ Five Sentence fiction. This weeks prompt is “Frozen”.

They call her the Crystal Queen. Many hearty souls have feared treading across this tundra afraid of seeing bulging eyes protruding from her eye sockets. They say her eyes are always on you.  And when you see her, trapped in the jewels of her crown, you are heavy with a hundred questions. They all begin with the word why.