❛ IF IT TAKES FIGHTING A WAR FOR US TO MEET,
IT WILL HAVE BEEN WORTH IT. ❜
in which the world turns to the kings and queens of old,
but the kings and queens turn to a lonely knight.
𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙋𝙇𝙀𝙏𝙀𝘿
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❝ Thank you for joining us on this day of celebration and union. I once again welcome our guests from Archenland today, courtesy of His Royal Majesty King Lune the Second and, his sister, Her Royal Highness Princess Juno. Your presence has been a pleasure these last few months in our court.
I stand before you with the highest level of pride and love a King could possibly have for his country. Narnia has flourished from what was once a dark and troublesome past into a beautiful ecosystem of kindness and wisdom. I have to thank the Narnians for this, as well as the continuous support my brother, sisters and the other members of the court have gifted to the country.
However, I don't wish to spend my short time thanking people today. Instead, I focus on love, for it is a thing that has brought this nation into prosperity and peace and has bound friendships and relationships nationwide. We have established an alliance and an engagement under this foundation, but it can also cause us to do the most unexpected of things at the most unpredictable of moments. Yet because we do strange things for the people we love, I believe that love mustn't be restrained, or detained, or pushed aside. Love has a purpose.
My speech today has a purpose.
We raise a glass to love. It is a force of nature that winds the fate of time and space. it discovers new paths for us to travel down. It unlocks an emotion powerful enough to wipe nations off the face of the world and construct empires larger than imagination can depict.
with regret and hope, I make an announcement. it is my wish that love will guide us down a better route towards our future and that the world can learn from this ever growing love to better itself as a whole. therefore, I, High King Peter of Narnia, formally end the marriage alliance between myself and Princess Juno of Archenland and resign from all contents of the Treaty of Beruna that signified the reinstatement of our betrothal.
Thank you. . . Please enjoy the rest of the night. ❞
