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Queen is motivated by wanting to satisfy Noelle's "Strange And Sad Searches" and her recognizing Noelle's inherent strength and malleability (not unlike a Snowgrave player). There's no indication Queen is familiar with Noelle beyond the information Noelle put into the library's computer, like everyone else. Noelle shows no sign of recognizing Queen or any other part of the Dark World either, which would be strange if she's the one who imagined it. It does also seem like Queen doesn't understand what Noelle means when she's searching for "DECEMBER HOLIDAY," but this is consistent with King also showing no sign of recognizing Kris (and the baseball moon might imply that she DOES know things associated with Dess, but she's getting confused by the ambiguous syntax in the way a computer would).
The Dark Worlds and their Darkners originating from a shared game of make-believe between Kris and Dess (who is The Knight) would explain why The Knight chose to make the first Dark Worlds at those locations with personal significance to them, why Kris and The Knight create identical Dark Worlds despite Chapter 4 showing that someone with a significantly different worldview (even Kris's best friend) would create a significantly different Dark World, and why Kris seems so significantly attached to Dess (Dess is repeatedly and persistently alluded to in Chapter 3, while Noelle is completely absent outside of the Mantle game) and why Noelle consistently expresses that she was never sure if she was really friends with Kris.
People have speculated from the start that something happened with Kris and Dess at the Shelter, and the recent Chapters have only doubled and tripled down on that idea. Why did Kris follow Dess into the Shelter in the first place if they weren't that close?
Is all of this really meant to suggest that Dess was just a friend's older sister, and nothing more than that?