" When I saw you for the first time, I knew I won't forget about you easily. And I was right, in those years there was no day or night I haven't thought of you. You are the one who lights my life up, and I would be lost without you."
"Valide, I wish to make very important decision very soon," Murad said as we were having dinner together me and him alone because we had to talk a lot about state job. He was 17 years old but he was very intelligent for his age.
"What is it about my lion?" I asked him hoping nothing bad would come to his mind as a mother I was always afraid of that.
"Venetians are against us, they sabotage our merchant ships and don't allow them to pass. They started making troubles here in Istanbul and they don't listen to me, so I think I will have to go in a battle for them to finally realise who is Sultan Murad Khan and that they can't behave like this," Murad said and in one hand I was proud on him for being so brave but at another hand as his mother I didn't want him to go to the war because he was still young and he didn't rule for more than few months and I didn't want anything bad to happen.
"I am proud on you my son how brave you are, but I think we can make sure those things end without a war," I said trying to make sure I would take this into my hands as I was born as Venetian and I could very easily handle this if they would agree to listen to me.
"Valide I am not so young, my late father Sultan Ahmed Khan already had Osman and Mehmed at my age and he went to the battles, so can I," Murad said and thought this was only reason of my fears but he was my greatest fear as the military wasn't in very well situation now and I didn't know how loyal they are still to him after everything that happened with Osman.
"Murad, my brave lion. Allow me to try it by the diplomatic way. I was born venetian, I can try to do something. If that won't be enough, then you should start a war. Never start it before you try to make peace by diplomatic ways," I said as I patted his shoulder but he seemed kinda nervous about my words.
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"Valide, I think I know the best what I am doing. I know you only want to help me, but I should decide what I wish to do and only by this way I will know if anything good or bad will happen and am I a good leader," he said and I understood what he wished but right now the State wasn't in a condition where it could go in a war without being sure it will win for hundred percent.
"I am afraid for you as a mother, I never wish to involve into your politics and the way you rule my brave lion. I just want to help you because after the latest things that happened I am not sure if the state treasury has enough money for such a big thing like a campaign especially after Venice which is so hard to win because you must have boats to go there," I said trying to make him trust me, because I knew what I was talking about.
"There is no place that Ottomans can't conquer, Valide, remember that," Murad said to me and it was very easily seen in his eyes he wish to conquer so many things like his ancestors did.
"I lived in Venice for the first fifteen years of my life. You think Venice was without a reason built in the lagoon with many canals? It was built that way so the enemies couldn't reach us and it made Venice unable to being conquered by any of another powers, because you can't enter there with so many big ships and fight when the whole city is like a labyrinth where your soldiers would only lose and you would get nothing from that war," I said.
