23-year-old Lily Golden was quickly cleaning up her tiny apartment with the news on as background noise.

"In other news, the recently exposed Unseen Realm's Prince Nuada is looking for an eligible human woman to marry as a truce against the humans that he will not attack. So far the requirements are that she be between the ages of 22 and 30, bilingual at the least, knows English, has done some sport at one point in time, and has had no plastic surgery or fake tanning. Tattoos have yet to be approved or rejected. If you meet these requirements and do not wish to be part of this search then contact the BPRD and give them your name and state that you wish to be removed from the list. And now back to Barbara with the weather . . ."

Lily barely gave this news a second thought. After the Unseen Realm revealed themselves, the news channels had been talking nonstop about the BPRD and the Prince and Princess. She had learned to block it out by now. She just hoped that it would all resolve itself. But in the back of her mind, she knew that she meet those requirements.

HBHBHBHBHB

Hellboy, Liz, Abe, Dr. Krauss, and the Prince and Princess were all talking in a conference room in the BPRD with Manning.

"You need to have more requirements for your future queen! We still have over one million candidates!" Manning explained to Prince Nuada.

"But he cannot be to careful in his search. We do not want the humans to think he is racist!" Dr. Krauss said.

"They already know about the Golden Army." Abe said. "That alone has brought down the number of candidates by thousands."

"What if we give the women a questionnaire to fill out with certain questions about themselves and we eliminate more that way?" Dr. Krauss suggested.

"That's brilliant. We'll do that. What kinds of questions should we have on there? What answers won't we accept?" Manning asked.

Prince Nuada stared at them with tired eyes. Who knew trying to find a queen would be so tiresome?

Sorry it's short. I'll have the next chapter up ASAP though!