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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Many days passed and preparation for the upcoming battle were well underway. Peter's army along with Catalina were due to deport to Terabithia the next morning to aid King Jesse's army. Edmund would soon follow with the main narnian armies once Peter and Catalina had reported an updated battle plan. A farewell ball had been organised with a festival for the surrounding villages to help boost spirits./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Rosemary and Lucy had spent the day sorting out a ball gown for Catalina much to her dismay. "I'm sure we will find something you like Cat" the narnian queen said as she hunted through her older sister's old chest of clothes "I swore Caspian brought Su heaps of telmarine dresses" "Please Lucy" Cat said, shyly "I do not want to be a bother" "Nonsense" replied the queen, "I know you want to grab Peter's attention. You can still look tough in a dress"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Rosemary sorted through Susan's cupboard, looking for any gowns she had left behind before traveling back to Telmar. Her eyes fell upon another chest in the back of the wardrobe, she opened it and gasped "this is perfect," she said to herself and hurried over to the telmarine warrior. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The two royals then helped their new friend into a beautiful red gown which shone with gold lace. Catalina smile as she smoothed down the dress with her hands "This is telmarine satin," "Good find Rose" Lucy said, shoving Susan's gowns back into her wardrobe and began fixing Catalina's hair. "Wait Lu," Rose said "I think her hair looks perfect the way it is." "I think you're right, Rose" Lucy replied, "it's beautiful" "You think so?" Catalina said, running her fingers through her hair "You're probably the first people to think my short hair is beautiful" "Where I come from" Rose said, touching up her own hair in Susan's old looking glass "lots of women have short hair, some have none at all," "I think I would enjoy your world," Cat said laughing. "Maybe I should cut my hair too" Lucy giggled./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The ladies hurried along the corridor, their ball gowns swaying around their ankles, with the gems glistening in the candle light. "I've fought many battles, but never in my life have I been more nervous about a silly social event," Catalina whispered. " Don't worry Cat," Lucy replied, "you are truly the most astounding person I have ever met." /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The ball rooms door swung open and the two princess followed by the telmarine warrior, they glided down the stairs, Catalina blushed "everyone is staring" "Because you look beautiful" Lucy giggled "oh look here comes Peter now, he must want to dance with you." Rosemary looked up. Indeed, the high king was coming over to them, but Rosemary had a bad feeling he wasn't coming to dance with Catalina. "Good evening," Peter said, bowing deeply, Rose saw Cat's cheeks turn pink again, "Rosemary, would you do me the honour of dancing with me." "Oh…maybe later," Rosemary said, flashing a quick smile at Cat, "I'm actually looking for your brother to…erm, discuss a certain flighting technique. "Oh," Peter said, a little dishearten "He's not attending tonight unfortunately, he's in his study going over final battle preparations. Rosemary frowned, she had been longing to see Edmund for a while and hoping for a dance but of course he was off doing something else. "Oh, alright, a quick dance won't hurt."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"They pair danced for what seemed like hours, Rosemary's feet hurt like crazy. "Peter," Rosemary mumbled "Could we perhaps rest for a bit." "Oh, of course, you wanted to see my brother didn't you?" The king replied as they headed back towards Lucy and Catalina. As the pair approached the girls Peter bowed and turned to Cat "Lady Catalina, would you care for a dance" "I would be honoured your highness," the telmarine, replied and the pair strode off towards the dance floor. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""They make such a beautiful couple," Lucy said, smiling "Don't you agree? "uh…yeah sure" Rosemary replied, staring in the direction of the exit leading to the royal libraries. "I need to…um…go to the bathroom, don't wait up for me" she said, as she hurried towards the door. "Oh ok," Lucy replied, "see you shortly."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Rosemary hurried along the corridors towards Edmund's study, she felt extremely jealous of Catalina and Peter dancing and furious at Edmund. She wanted a moment like that, not with Peter of course but with Edmund. The pair hadn't spoken in weeks out of fear of what Peter and Lucy might say about their new found romance. She worried especially about Peter seeing as she was absolutely certain he had feeling for her./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Rosemary flew open the library door and stormed towards Edmund, who's face was buried under a pile of books. "Why aren't you at the ball," the Terabithian princess said, furiously, "I don't like balls" Edmund replied, not even glancing up from his book. "We haven't spoken in weeks Edmund," she said, angrily, "I've been forced to dance millions of times with you older brother, so much that my feet hurt. I wanted to spend at least one of those dances with you Edmund." The Just King sighed rubbing his forehead "I am busy trying to prepare for a war Rosemary" "If your brother can dance for hours with me then you can dance for a least one minute!" she replied, furiously "Poor Catalina had been dying for a dance with him and I had been looking for any excuse to get away from him, people were even thinking we were together or something." Edmund rolled his eyes and returned back to his book. "Will you put that bloody book down for two seconds!" she shouted, pulling the book from Edmund's grasp, which toppled to the floor with a loud thud./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The pair glared at each other, "Pick that up!" Edmund commanded "I will not" Rose replied, stubbornly. The king placed his hands on his desk and leaned closer to her "pick up my book," Rosemary folded her arms across her chest. He leaned in even closer, grazing his lips by her ear, "pick up my book please" he whispered. Rosemary nodded, biting her bottom lip and bent over to pick the book off of the floor. "Thank you," he said, softly, reaching for the book with an outstretched hand. Rosemary grinned as she plopped the book on the desk, grabbing Edmund's wrist and pulling him close. "I still want my dance," she demanded, wrapping Edmund's arm around her./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"They could hear the music from the ball room through the library's open door, they glided gracefully up and down the rows of bookshelves, Rosemary was grateful for the practise she had with Cat and Lucy. It seemed like the room had completely disappeared around them, Rose felt like her and Edmund were the only two people in the entire world. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Once the song had finished, the pair leaned in for a long anticipated kiss. How Rosemary had longed for this, his lips were as soft and gentle just as she had remember. But, it wasn't long until they were interrupted by a loud gasp. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The pair broke apart to find Peter in the library's doorway, closely followed by Catalina and Lucy. "So this is where you two have been," Peter said, furiously, Rosemary had never seen him this angry before. "You two aught to be ashamed of yourself, missing a royal event to lust over each other," the high king stormed towards his brother "you need to learn some manners and attend royal events" he turned to Rosemary "and you are the heir to the terabithian throne, there are soldiers downstairs who are sacrificing their lives to support you and you didn't speak to a single one. We have an image to uphold for our wed..." Peter paused suddenly and turned to Lucy, "you didn't give her uncles message...did you."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Lucy bit her lip "I did not want to hide this from you Rosemary, but…" she paused for a moment, looking back at Catalina and then forward towards her brother, "Your uncle has promised your hand in marriage to Peter as the eldest heirs to the throne, you will be uniting the two kingdoms."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""He can't do that!" the princess shouted "Edmund and I…" she held the just king's hand, smiling at him "We are growing fond of each other, I'm sorry Peter but you and my uncle do not decide who I marry." /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Peter glared at the pair, "you are lucky I am a reasonable man, I will still help your armies, but after this war Terabithia is one its own." Peter turned gesturing for Catalina to follow him as he stormed out of the library, the telmarine hurried off after him. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Lucy sighed, looking at the pair. "Well, I'm happy for you." she said with a smile "come along now let's all head to bed." Rose turned to Edmund, who's face was as white as a ghost, "I'm sorry," he muttered as he hurried off to his chambers./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Rosemary slumped to the floor, her eyes brimming with tears. "I wish I could go back to the way things were." She sobbed "I want to go home."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Chapter 15: /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Many days passed and preparation for the upcoming battle were well underway. Peter's army along with Catalina were due to deport to Terabithia the next morning to aid King Jesse's army. Edmund would soon follow with the main narnian armies once Peter and Catalina had reported an updated battle plan. A farewell ball had been organised with a festival for the surrounding villages to help boost spirits./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Rosemary and Lucy had spent the day sorting out a ball gown for Catalina much to her dismay. "I'm sure we will find something you like Cat" the narnian queen said as she hunted through her older sister's old chest of clothes "I swore Caspian brought Su heaps of telmarine dresses" "Please Lucy" Cat said, shyly "I do not want to be a bother" "Nonsense" replied the queen, "I know you want to grab Peter's attention. You can still look tough in a dress"/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Rosemary sorted through Susan's cupboard, looking for any gowns she had left behind before traveling back to Telmar. Her eyes fell upon another chest in the back of the wardrobe, she opened it and gasped "this is perfect," she said to herself and hurried over to the telmarine warrior. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The two royals then helped their new friend into a beautiful red gown which shone with gold lace. Catalina smile as she smoothed down the dress with her hands "This is telmarine satin," "Good find Rose" Lucy said, shoving Susan's gowns back into her wardrobe and began fixing Catalina's hair. "Wait Lu," Rose said "I think her hair looks perfect the way it is." "I think you're right, Rose" Lucy replied, "it's beautiful" "You think so?" Catalina said, running her fingers through her hair "You're probably the first people to think my short hair is beautiful" "Where I come from" Rose said, touching up her own hair in Susan's old looking glass "lots of women have short hair, some have none at all," "I think I would enjoy your world," Cat said laughing. "Maybe I should cut my hair too" Lucy giggled./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The ladies hurried along the corridor, their ball gowns swaying around their ankles, with the gems glistening in the candle light. "I've fought many battles, but never in my life have I been more nervous about a silly social event," Catalina whispered. " Don't worry Cat," Lucy replied, "you are truly the most astounding person I have ever met." /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The ball rooms door swung open and the two princess followed by the telmarine warrior, they glided down the stairs, Catalina blushed "everyone is staring" "Because you look beautiful" Lucy giggled "oh look here comes Peter now, he must want to dance with you." Rosemary looked up. Indeed, the high king was coming over to them, but Rosemary had a bad feeling he wasn't coming to dance with Catalina. "Good evening," Peter said, bowing deeply, Rose saw Cat's cheeks turn pink again, "Rosemary, would you do me the honour of dancing with me." "Oh…maybe later," Rosemary said, flashing a quick smile at Cat, "I'm actually looking for your brother to…erm, discuss a certain flighting technique. "Oh," Peter said, a little dishearten "He's not attending tonight unfortunately, he's in his study going over final battle preparations. Rosemary frowned, she had been longing to see Edmund for a while and hoping for a dance but of course he was off doing something else. "Oh, alright, a quick dance won't hurt."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"They pair danced for what seemed like hours, Rosemary's feet hurt like crazy. "Peter," Rosemary mumbled "Could we perhaps rest for a bit." "Oh, of course, you wanted to see my brother didn't you?" The king replied as they headed back towards Lucy and Catalina. As the pair approached the girls Peter bowed and turned to Cat "Lady Catalina, would you care for a dance" "I would be honoured your highness," the telmarine, replied and the pair strode off towards the dance floor. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""They make such a beautiful couple," Lucy said, smiling "Don't you agree? "uh…yeah sure" Rosemary replied, staring in the direction of the exit leading to the royal libraries. "I need to…um…go to the bathroom, don't wait up for me" she said, as she hurried towards the door. "Oh ok," Lucy replied, "see you shortly."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Rosemary hurried along the corridors towards Edmund's study, she felt extremely jealous of Catalina and Peter dancing and furious at Edmund. She wanted a moment like that, not with Peter of course but with Edmund. The pair hadn't spoken in weeks out of fear of what Peter and Lucy might say about their new found romance. She worried especially about Peter seeing as she was absolutely certain he had feeling for her./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Rosemary flew open the library door and stormed towards Edmund, who's face was buried under a pile of books. "Why aren't you at the ball," the Terabithian princess said, furiously, "I don't like balls" Edmund replied, not even glancing up from his book. "We haven't spoken in weeks Edmund," she said, angrily, "I've been forced to dance millions of times with you older brother, so much that my feet hurt. I wanted to spend at least one of those dances with you Edmund." The Just King sighed rubbing his forehead "I am busy trying to prepare for a war Rosemary" "If your brother can dance for hours with me then you can dance for a least one minute!" she replied, furiously "Poor Catalina had been dying for a dance with him and I had been looking for any excuse to get away from him, people were even thinking we were together or something." Edmund rolled his eyes and returned back to his book. "Will you put that bloody book down for two seconds!" she shouted, pulling the book from Edmund's grasp, which toppled to the floor with a loud thud./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The pair glared at each other, "Pick that up!" Edmund commanded "I will not" Rose replied, stubbornly. The king placed his hands on his desk and leaned closer to her "pick up my book," Rosemary folded her arms across her chest. He leaned in even closer, grazing his lips by her ear, "pick up my book please" he whispered. Rosemary nodded, biting her bottom lip and bent over to pick the book off of the floor. "Thank you," he said, softly, reaching for the book with an outstretched hand. Rosemary grinned as she plopped the book on the desk, grabbing Edmund's wrist and pulling him close. "I still want my dance," she demanded, wrapping Edmund's arm around her./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"They could hear the music from the ball room through the library's open door, they glided gracefully up and down the rows of bookshelves, Rosemary was grateful for the practise she had with Cat and Lucy. It seemed like the room had completely disappeared around them, Rose felt like her and Edmund were the only two people in the entire world. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Once the song had finished, the pair leaned in for a long anticipated kiss. How Rosemary had longed for this, his lips were as soft and gentle just as she had remember. But, it wasn't long until they were interrupted by a loud gasp. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The pair broke apart to find Peter in the library's doorway, closely followed by Catalina and Lucy. "So this is where you two have been," Peter said, furiously, Rosemary had never seen him this angry before. "You two aught to be ashamed of yourself, missing a royal event to lust over each other," the high king stormed towards his brother "you need to learn some manners and attend royal events" he turned to Rosemary "and you are the heir to the terabithian throne, there are soldiers downstairs who are sacrificing their lives to support you and you didn't speak to a single one. We have an image to uphold for our wed..." Peter paused suddenly and turned to Lucy, "you didn't give her uncles message...did you."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Lucy bit her lip "I did not want to hide this from you Rosemary, but…" she paused for a moment, looking back at Catalina and then forward towards her brother, "Your uncle has promised your hand in marriage to Peter as the eldest heirs to the throne, you will be uniting the two kingdoms."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';""He can't do that!" the princess shouted "Edmund and I…" she held the just king's hand, smiling at him "We are growing fond of each other, I'm sorry Peter but you and my uncle do not decide who I marry." /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Peter glared at the pair, "you are lucky I am a reasonable man, I will still help your armies, but after this war Terabithia is one its own." Peter turned gesturing for Catalina to follow him as he stormed out of the library, the telmarine hurried off after him. /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Lucy sighed, looking at the pair. "Well, I'm happy for you." she said with a smile "come along now let's all head to bed." Rose turned to Edmund, who's face was as white as a ghost, "I'm sorry," he muttered as he hurried off to his chambers./p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Rosemary slumped to the floor, her eyes brimming with tears. "I wish I could go back to the way things were." She sobbed "I want to go home."/p
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