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...
WALKING IN THE WIND viii. SILENT WARS ARE JUST AS DEADLY
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THERE WERE NO WORDS to describe how Hope felt when she was asked what Wysteria was.
Silence suffocated her as Odette argued with Trumpkin over Wysteria being a legitimate kingdom. It was small, sure, but it certainly wasn't unknown, nor was it too far away from Narnia. But Trumpkin insisted that he'd never heard of Wysteria before in his life. The Pevensies had told Hope and Odette what became of Wysteria, that King David and Queen Lydia cut off all communications after the princess and her lady went missing. But did that mean Wysteria had fallen right under their noses? Or was this after the Pevensies left Narnia?
Silence mocked her when Trumpkin explained that over 1,000 years had passed since the Pevensies left. It had been over 1,000 years since Odette and Hope last stood in Narnia. Even though only one year had passed in London, it'd been a millennium in Narnia. And during that millennium, Wysteria fell.
Silence consumed her when Trumpkin revealed that in the Pevensies' absences, Narnia entered a dark age. Without their guidance, Narnia was left vulnerable, impotent. A few centuries ago, Telmarines found their way to Narnia, and upon deciding that magic and heinous "fairytale" creatures had no place in the world, a war broke out. The war didn't cease until the Telmarines overtook the land.
Silence became her once Trumpkin revealed that despite not knowing of Odette or Wysteria, he did, however, know of Hope. That shocked her just as much as the thought that Wysteria no longer existed and Narnia had fallen. The worst part was that everyone knew of the shameful marriage that occurred between Narnia's beloved Just King and a common handmaid. (Yes, "shameful" was the word he used).
Hope hadn't spoken a word since then. Neither had Odette or the Pevensies — not unless it was necessary. It was almost unbearable how loud the silence was.
Everything continued to pile on each other: the fairies, the marriage, almost dying, King David's confrontation, almost dying again, ending up in London with erased memories, the dreams, Odette's lies, fighting with Odette, the taxi, almost dying again, returning to Narnia, her memories returning, reuniting with the Pevensies, discovering that more than a year had passed since they left Narnia, learning that it'd actually been 1,000 years since then, and discovering Narnia was torn apart by an unmerciful war led by the Telmarines. Although several years had passed, Hope felt like everything was happening within the same week of each other. She couldn't get a break. She couldn't breathe. She couldn't speak, she couldn't think. It was too much for her. All of this was too much for her.
