By the Decree of the Most Elevated Council

Prompt:
>Changelings actually just pick the tallest changeling alive to be their leader

>"Friends, Changelings, hivedwellers, lend me your ears!"
>High Invoker Chiton had always had a love for the needlessly bombastic
>"We come here today honour our fallen Queen, as she rejoins the great Unity!"
>"But we're also here to crown a new ruler, one whose towering height will allow him or her closer connection to the Unity Beyond"
>"It has fallen upon us, the Most Serene Council of the Vertically Elevated, to find this new ruler"
>As Chrysalis looked upon the grand plaza before her, and the thousands upon thousands of Changeling eyes looking spellbound at the Elevated Council's elevated platform, any nervousness she thought she had left at home came back in full force
>She really, really wasn't ready for this
>"As decreed by Tradition, Law and Faith, we have carefully conducted the Threefold Execution of the Thirty and Three Measurings"
>Though she had not dared protest, Chrysalis had found the seemingly endless measuring ritual to be completely pointless
>The results had been the same each and every time
>"And, my dearest people, we have succeeded"
>Chrysalis wondered if it was possible to fail, when you were given ninety-nine chances to measure someone
>"We have found our next Queen. One fit to carry the title of Queen of the Northern Changelings, Thesmos of The Deep Hives, Warden of Bug's Bottom and the Bitter Ridge"
>Her big moment was almost here
>Was she ready?
>Chryaslis strode forwards from the ranks of the Council, and joined Chiton at the front of the platform
>Though she had moved only a few meters, the raving masses seemed infinitely closer now
>"May she reign now and forever more as our Supreme Loftyness, Queen Chrysalis!"
>The crowd exploded into a frenzy
>Chiton ceremoniously entrusted Chrysalis with the symbols of her office, the Royal Artefacts
>The Emerald Measuring Stick
>The Platform Boots of Royal Lankyness
>The Paper Hat of Imposing Height
>Standing there, greeting her people, Queen Chrysalis couldn't help but wonder what things would have been like if she had been just half a hoof shorter
>No Council to participate in
>No Realm to Rule
>No stressing job where the only retirement opportunity is death
>But instead, a normal life
>A good book
>A soothing cup of tea
>As she was daydreaming, the Royal Artefacts kept getting heavier and heavier
>Fucking hormones