𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐃 | ❝Hope is good, Hope will never disgrace, but make no mistake, Hope will hit you in the face!❞
In which the Just King becomes betrothed to a princess from a neighboring kingdom, only to fall in love with the prin...
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NOTHING WAS PARTICULARLY IMPOSSIBLE. In a land ruled upon by a Lion God, waltzing oak trees, and rather talkative mouse knights, Queen Hope Pevensie knew that very well by now.
And so, that brings us back to the beginning.
It's no secret that children, and oftentimes adults, long for fairytales to become their reality. Hope adored fairytales, and she wasn't ashamed of it. And despite the insurmountable odds, she was living in one as Narnia's Bright Queen and Captain of the Royal Guard.
Queen. How surreal.
She wore a silver crown in her hair, resided in a lavish bedroom all to herself for the first time in any of her lives, and even possessed handmaids of her own. Such a luxury was terribly foreign to her. Half of the time, she didn't believe she deserved it. The other half, she completely forgot that this was her life now! It was just too... dreamlike, really!
In the days following the Pevensies' return to England, Narnia's end-of-war festivities concluded, and it was time to restore the kingdom. A task like this was hefty on their shoulders. What did Queen Odette, King Caspian, and Queen Hope know about reviving kingdoms? Each of them was born onto a land raised upon decaying grounds. But what made the trio such a spectacular team was the fact that they could all agree upon one clause: Everything they did was for the betterment of Narnia and its people.
As Captain of the Royal Guard, Hope didn't think there was much for her to do. Surely, no one wanted anything to do with Narnia's infantry so soon after a 1,000-year-long Dark Age. And while this remained true, as Hope and Aslan made their way into the villages and towns to visit the people, many of them took a newfound interest in learning to fight and defend themselves.
(Actually, while we're on the subject, Aslan was the one who requested Hope to join him in visiting the people while Odette and Caspian worked out the more tedious politics. This is not exactly relevant to anything right now other than the fact that Hope now had bragging rights. Aslan said she made delightful company!).
(Hey, they didn't call her the Queen of the People for nothing!).
Of course, Odette and Caspian spent their fair share of time immersing themselves in Narnia's day-to-day traditions, too. In this regard, Caspian was much like Hope. As his Professor mentioned often, he adored history. Most of the time, Caspian and Hope were the ones bouncing off the walls, spewing with fun facts about Narnia's rites and rituals without end. Sometimes, they even got into small squabbles over it, with Caspian declaring something that "Old Narnians used to do" and Hope correcting him, which she thought was fair, considering she was an Old Narnian. It was their shared love for Narnia that brought them closer than either could've imagined.
