And I will rise up from the ashes now.
As she rested, thoroughly pleased by and enamored with her king, Zap watched Thor's chest rise and fall. "I think we should tell the people." The Asgardians, she meant. Her hand reached across the small void between them on their bed, and she took his chin and turned his head to face her. "Your permanent residence status, I mean. We married back in July..." she sighed. "We're only having a wedding now because I agreed to take the title. But they should know that we're legally wed and there's less of a threat. Let them know they have a queen - that their monarchy is solid and multi-national. And that their future king," she smiled, "is in no danger of not having a kingdom to oversee." She'd be damned if her children were put in danger again, and every day, every hour, she became more fiercely a queen and warrior for justice.