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Started on 11/27/06 The Queen       The first time he met the Griffin Queen she was watching some older girls walk away with her lunch money.  She must have sensed his gaze, because she turned and laid her liquid amber eyes upon him, and she smiled.  Her expression was soft and a little sad, but her smile held within it the hope of tomorrow.  She began walking toward him, between the younger kids playing with blocks on the concrete, and the older kids setting up a game of dodge-ball.       He ran behind a hedge.       Crouching there, secure between the boughs of the juniper bushes he opened his side-slung book satchel to make sure his