His options were clear: a marriage between the Narnian Queen and the Telmarine King so both kingdoms could unite and every hint of war would disappear forever. Though they were written, those words were quite hard for the Great king Peter and his siblings. Even if they were sick of unnecessary wars and felt kind of appreciation to the Telmarine king, they didn't felt like sacrificing their sister: the Gentle Queen Susan was a good idea. The four siblings were completely aware that they rose to the throne at a very young age but they were really young; they were between thirteen and seven years old, but they managed to defeat to the White Witch and rule a kingdom for ten years, even when there was a Telmarine threat for a conquest to Narnia. For sure they wouldn't expose to their people to such thing and king Caspian knew so, as well as he knew both kingdoms needed an heir.

King Caspian X of Telmar was aware of the four great kings of Narnia, the four of them named by the great master of Narnia, the legendary Aslan. Anybody knew where they came from, their legend said Aslan found them by a river and he trained them to become the promised kings of the ancient legend. Caspian knew their legend; he grew learning everything of them, his father, Caspian IX made sure he knew them. He still remembered the day he met the four kings when he was only fourteen years old, he was the age of the Great King Peter. He couldn't believe what he saw that day, strange creatures were caring them; speaking animals, creatures he just believed were real on the fairytales his mother used to tell him when he was a child… But there was a special creature that caught his complete attention; it wasn't a raccoon or a leopard, no; she was a girl, she was thirteen or fourteen years, her pale skin and blue eyes attracted him immediately, he had been obsessed with her ever since.

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Lucy, the Valiant, one was staring at the sea, wondering, she perfectly knew that Susan's choice would change Narnia's destiny overnight; Susan would sacrifice herself just for save to his people. The Great King Peter was sitting on the golden throne trying to find a way he could avoid an arranged marriage and his sister's unhappiness and find another way to make both kingdoms unite. The Just King Edmund found himself wondering what he could eat at dinner; he truly was anxious for his sister and anxiety made him hungry. Susan, the Gentle just hoped his siblings could pardon her one day; she didn't want to see anybody suffer, it didn't matter if it was Narnian or Telmarine. She was going to accept King Caspian's proposal; she was going to unite both kingdoms.

The Gentle Queen Susan sighted heavily, and elegantly walked to the center of the great hall of thrones. The three kings turned to her and so the guards that were there.

"I've made my decision" said the Queen, she gave a quick glance to his brothers and took a deep breath before saying:

"I will marry King Caspian for our kingdom's welfare."

The reaction of the presents was the same: everybody closed their eyes and sighted. The first in complain was King Peter:

"You can't do that. There must be another way; you don't need to sacrifice yourself. Please, don't."

"Pete, you must understand this is not only for me. I have to do this for you, Ed, Lu, Narnia… Narnia's destiny depends on me. I'll sacrifice myself a million times just to keep all of you safe."

"You don't need to do this, my queen." One guard dared to speak "We defended Narnia once, so we would do now."

"I know you are brave and strong enough to keep Narnia safe" replied the Gentle Queen "But I will do as much as I can to avoid a war. I don't want innocents to die; I don't care whether they are narnians or not and that's my last word."

"Would you risk your own happiness just to keep all of us safe?" asked calmly the Valiant and wise Queen Lucy

"That's unfair, don't you think, Su?" The Just King Edmund finally added.

"If I need to die so each of you in this kingdom is safe, so be." Said The Gentle firmly.

"So that's your last word, dear?" asked The Magnificent King Peter, looking at the ceiling.

"Yes." Said The Gentle

"So it shall be" agreed The Magnificent

"But Pete" The Valiant started to talk when the magnificent interrupted her.

"In the end, it's her choice. If she accepts or rejects it's her decision and she has made it. We must respect it." The Magnificent said with a broken voice. "If she believes that's the best for her and the kingdom, I'm afraid we've got nothing to do."

The Valiant Queen Lucy just sighted and left the room, she felt mad and proud of her sister, and she knew her sister did sacrificed herself because she didn't want a war. Susan would always put to her people before herself.

Slowly, the remaining kings abandoned the room. The guards were crestfallen, they never thought their queen would do such a thing, she had just accepted an uncertain fate so they could live in peace; a sacrifice they would never forget. A complex mix of pride and anxiety for their queen started to grow in their hearts, they admired her but they also were worried about her. What would happen to her in the Telmarine castle? She didn't know anybody, not even the prince. They knew they met once, but that was ten years ago. How king Caspian looked like? They knew he was the same age of The Magnificent King Peter, but was he evil? Poor Queen Susan! She didn't deserve such a thing like that.

The Gentle Queen Susan walked into her quarters, the weight of her decision fell suddenly over her arms. She truly wasn't prepared for a marriage; she knew she was almost twenty two but she wasn't ready for such responsibility. She just whispered several apologies for Narnia, for her siblings, even for the sky. She felt guilty but there was no other option. Denying the proposal would mean war and that was the last thing they needed: war. The Gentle took a parchment and started to write down a letter for King Caspian. Tears threatened to run down but she held back and promised herself she would be strong for everybody, but, specially, herself. Once she finished the letter, she called to her personal courier; a nymph named Duan and sent her to give her letter to King Caspian, she didn't run any risk since she was a nature nymph, it was impossible to harm her.

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It was almost twilight and the King of Telmar was looking through the balcony, grey, cold castle was silent, peaceful. He was making a strategy in case of war with the Narnians. He knew his proposal was reckless but he knew that his court was ambitious and they would start a war just for gaining Narnian territory. That's why he made that proposal, he wanted to avoid a war and he knew his court would be pleased if he took to the Gentle Queen as his wife just to humiliate Narnians. Caspian X was thinking deeply when one of his guards pulled him from the dream.

"Your majesty, I beg your pardon for interrupting but a Narnian came and was at the throne Hall." The guard said a little scared.

"Did it tell you what it wanted?"The King asked curious.

"No sir. But she left this for you. She said it's from her queen" The guard said as he extended a wounded parchment tied with a red silk strip.

King Caspian took the parchment and nodded, the guard exited immediately and when the king found himself alone, he started to read the letter. At first he thought they would send him to hell and they would be preparing for war but when he finished the letter, a smile started to draw on his face. Everything he would wish for was about to happen; Queen Susan, The Gentle was accepting his marriage proposal. Definitely it was his lucky day.