[The Chronicles of Narnia] Sin

Tribenzia, Queen Sharon's engagement ceremony.

"In the name of Poseidon, I hereby announce that Sharon Bernard and Elias Lanting have entered into a marriage contract. Let us witness their loyalty to love together." The priests dressed in the traditional blue robes of the island country Majestic, looking around at all the guests standing in the huge church, the voice is long.

Under the gratified and envious gaze of the crowd, the young and beautiful queen exchanged engagement rings with her heroic fiancé.

"This prince-to-be is even more eye-catching than I imagined." Susan, who was wearing a lavender dress with her hair in a bun, said to Peter.In order to avoid attracting unnecessary attention, the Gentle Queen deliberately chose a more plain color and put on decent light makeup. "Although birth doesn't determine everything, it does have a great influence on people. I heard that the Lanting family has a long history in Tribinia Island and has a high reputation."

The Supreme King nodded slightly: "The marriage of the two families can make a great contribution to the stability here. I haven't seen Sharon for more than half a year. She looks much more mature."

The young man named Elias was about 25 years old and was the eldest son of the Lanting family.Like Sharon, he also has deep hair and deep eyes, which together with the contrast of shallow skin make people more intelligent and sharp.Due to regional climate and other reasons, Tribinians are generally not tall, but Elias has broad shoulders and narrow waist, and his stature is basically the same as that of the Supreme King, which can be said to be genetically superior.

During dinner time, Sharon deliberately arranged a relatively small banquet that was convenient for pleasant conversation.Those who came to congratulate the Queen on her engagement included the High King and Queen Gentle of Narnia, Duke Jordan as the representative of the Seven Isles, and Countess Stairup of Aphra Island, one of the three lonely islands.

"I really didn't expect to make so many friends in just a few months." The queen who entered the small hall looked approachable, "I hope we can still meet at the official wedding in a few months."

"It is my honor to have dinner with all the noble kings, queens, baronesses and countesses." Elias also said modestly.

"Your status will far exceed ours in the future, Mr. Lanting." Stairup raised her voice, "You should get used to the feeling of being equal to the three kings and queens in advance!"

"I'm not fully ready to enter the court," Elias raised his glass, "There is still a lot to learn, and I will make progress together with Sharon. ——Thank you for coming, and regards Tribbin The best vintage wine in West Asia.”

Everyone clinked glasses amid laughter and began to eat.

Some time ago, Peter's workload was doubled because of Ed's sneaking away, and he entertained calmly and restrainedly, without any other extra thoughts; but Queen Sharon was obviously in a good mood, and threw all kinds of things at the two monarchs of Narnia. Question: "Has His Majesty the Supreme King met someone he likes?"

Peter smiled slightly, and responded simply: "Unfortunately, there are not currently."

Susan rescued him in time: "My brother is a workaholic - almost everyone in the continent knows this. I think there is a high probability that he will spend his whole life with politics!"

"My sister is not worrying," Peter finally raised a little interest, teasing Susan, "she always thinks that she is still a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, despite the people of Narnia urging her in every possible way, she still cares about the important things in her life. Ignore it."

"Oh, then I really understand you," Sharon said to Susan, taking a sip of blackcurrant wine. Getting married and having children will stabilize the overall situation. I don’t understand, is a 19-year-old woman very old?”

"Not at all." Stairup and Susan said in unison, and then smiled at each other.

"But fate is really amazing..." the slightly drunk Sharon continued, "Later I met Eli, a person who was very suitable in every way and hit it off with me. We both thought it was impossible for us to have a flash marriage ——As a result, both of them broke their promises in less than three months!"

"I sincerely wish you two." Lord Jordan, who had been silent all this time, raised his glass, "For the bright future of your country!"

The Supreme King also stood up: "The best blessing is hidden in the most mellow wine." The two men raised their heads and drank the spirits in one gulp.

·

Late at night, Edith sat alone in the small attic of the intelligence agency.She found that being blind also has many advantages, such as not having to turn on the lamp at night, and not having to go to bed so punctually.The King of Justice has a large desk, which is specially used to display the three-dimensional model of the world map. Some iconic flags, wooden horses, tents and other objects can maximize the help of Edith to perceive information.

In the Lonely Islands, she felt the bulge on the smooth ocean boundary; in the Great Desert, she felt the rough texture of the gravel—to the south of which was Calormene.It turned out that the distance between these two places was not as far as she had imagined. From the tip of the peninsula protruding from Calormene, it was actually closer to Dorne than Cair Paravel was to Tribenzia.She had never observed the whole world so calmly and carefully when she was carrying out specific tasks every day before. On the contrary, after retiring from the army, her vision gradually broadened.

Yesterday afternoon, the codebreaker Gabriela came to her, hoping she could help identify a sound hidden in the conch.It was recorded by the mermaids of the Marine Intelligence Division with magic, and the source is unknown.

Amidst the noisy porters shouting, monsoon whistling and waves beating, Edith could barely hear a man's fragmented sentence: Youtusi, tune the tiger away from the mountain, cooperate.She couldn't tell who the man was talking to, nor could she discern the tone of the speaker's own voice.The record was clearly related to Calormen, but Lamandro had been out of Narnia for ten days, and it was brand new.

She had been wondering who the person related to Calormen was, and it was Tyro, Lord of Dorne who had still decided to stay in Cair Paravel during the Queen's visit abroad, who had caught her attention.

Along with this huge map of the world, there is also a solid gold chess set.That was the only pastime that Justice King had in his spare time in the office, and now the chess pieces were covered with a thin layer of dust.She couldn't help but think of the scene when Edmund invited her to play chess for the first time half a year ago.To be precise, her chess skills at that time could not be called chess at all; growing up in the Pirate Bay for 13 years, she can understand the basic rules and the balance of the game is already very good.

"I've said that I'm not good at this," she remembered complaining when she was killed the first time, "You can't expect a person who has been adrift on a sea that can't even hold a chessboard all year round to do this kind of thing." thing."

Later, her chess prowess grew, and the Justice King finally could no longer easily win an overwhelming victory. The two of them could even occasionally go back and forth on the chessboard, fighting each other.Edith felt that she might have had some personal thoughts about him since then... In the blink of an eye, a year will pass.It had been so long since she had been in Narnia.

The girl was saddened by a rare sight, when faint rustling sounds could be heard from the corridor towards the front hall of the castle.The sound seemed to come from the floor, and it became clearer when you squatted down to listen; the friction felt like heavy objects being moved, or hard objects being polished, but it was indeed far away, and it was very weak when it reached the attic.Although she had doubts in her heart, she knew that a blind man like herself would not be able to do anything by running around in the front hall.After reviewing the basic political information of each country in her mind, she set off to return to the soldiers' dormitory.

·

"Why is Taylor still here?" While walking on the way to her office with a pile of civil opinion letters, the Queen of Bravery happened to meet her brother who had just returned from the court.

"You are asking the wrong person," Edmund said with a look of no comment. "If I know the reason why he insists on staying here, I will be the first to smash it."

Lucy sarcastically said to him: "You can save yourself, he has bothered me and Susan much more than he has bothered you."

King Justice raised his eyebrows: "You and Susan? Recently, his appetite has grown again?"

"I suspect that with his greasy personality, he won't let a girl go." Speaking of this, the girl couldn't help rolling her eyes contemptuously, "I heard that most of the girls on Dorne Island are hot and unrestrained. Isn't it enough for him to pick?"

Edmund's sense of duty to defend his sisters burned. "Where is he now? I'll talk to him right away, and try to close the door. Narnia doesn't welcome such old bastards—he's old enough to be your father!"

The Queen of Braveness hastily grabbed the back of his shirt, and almost strangled the King of Justice who was furious and about to take a step: "But he didn't do anything out of the ordinary—at least he was polite every time he came to bother people, and he occasionally ate something. What will the islanders think of the ruler of Narnia if you send him back to the island with this reason?"

"Then I'd say Cair Paravel couldn't keep him; the man ate and drank free at the castle for a month and a half, and emptied the granaries," said Edmund exaggeratedly.

Lucy didn't bother to speak anymore, she just stared at him with her mouth curled up, as if she was the older one.Edmund could only wave his hand impatiently: "Let me just say... we are already busy with the prison affairs, and it would be a waste of energy to drive him away." The two held the documents in their hands, helplessly rushed to the battlefield of official duties.

·

The strange noise from the attic floor at night has continued for three full days.Edith wanted to ask Edmund to go with her to check the situation, but it was obvious that the other party had been busy with business for four consecutive days.Even the management of the Intelligence Bureau has been temporarily handed over to Amos, and it is even less likely that the Justice King himself has time to deal with such trivial matters of suspicion.

During dinner, Edith met "Blood Moon" who was having dinner with several young men in the soldier's dining room.His voice is very characteristic, and the girl can recognize it very sensitively as soon as he enters the door.Because there was really no more suitable person to cooperate with her actions, she hesitated to invite him.In fact, she didn't know how Saknur saw herself now—since the night conversation on the voyage, the relationship between them was not as natural and comfortable as before.

"No problem." The boy's quick response pulled her out of her thoughts.Edith immediately apologized deeper to him, but she obviously couldn't give anything in return as a blind person.

"...Thank you." She could only say dryly.

·

"Did you hear anything?" At around midnight, Saknur and Edith pricked up their ears in the attic.

"It's just that creaking sound... and there are faint footsteps. Don't you?"

The werewolf boy looked puzzled: "Maybe my hearing is too bad... Ordinary people can't compare with people with closed vision."

Edith led him downstairs to the side of the main hall, closer to the source of the sound. "Haven't heard yet? I think it's close enough."

Saknur was almost lying on the ground before he barely heard a little intermittent noise. "Further ahead is the inner palace... Logically, we can't enter it." The boy whispered, "Are you sure you want to break in?"

Edith nodded: "I'm worried that if I don't leave, those weird noises tonight will be over."

Edith's ability to listen to sounds and distinguish positions is like a god, and she also knows the spatial structure of the castle, leading the somewhat confused Saknur to run softly in the stone corridor.In the small utility room on the top floor of the castle, the two found a strange boy waiter-he was the one who made the noise.

"What are you doing?" Edith smelled a strange smell in the house, and stopped at the door to ask.

Saknur vaguely saw that he just got up from the wooden floor, and came to him suspiciously to check.

The entire floor was intact, except for a small amount of gray-black powder scattered in the corner, which was not noticed in the faint candlelight; Edith happened to be blind, so she couldn't find any other breakthrough except for repeatedly pressing the waiter boy.

"Who are you? I don't remember that there are guests like you in the castle." Seeing that the two men were not dressed like staff members or nobles, and they looked strange, he took the lead in rebelling against the general.

Edith was so angry that she retorted, "When you were sleeping peacefully in the castle and dreaming, we were the ones fighting to the death outside."

"But I often work late into the night." The boy clapped his hands, "The castle is so big, there are still many cleaning staff like me who are in charge, and they all get up early and stay late-these clutter are too difficult to sort out."

"Are you just sorting out the sundries?" Edith said suspiciously. She couldn't believe that the sound of sorting things could be transmitted directly to the Intelligence Bureau through the floor pillars and other structures.

"Otherwise, steal these mops and brooms?"

The three of them stalemate for a while, and Saknur reconciled: "Maybe you are really overthinking this time." Then he turned from facing Edith to the waiter boy: "We didn't mean to offend, but we were just worried about the safety of the castle. Will leave as soon as possible."

Edith was still worried, and sniffed the air for a long time: "What is this smell?"

The boy blinked, and his tone was not very friendly: "Moldy wood, dust, mouse hair... Maybe there are some strange bug corpse smells."

Edith always felt that there were still some inexplicable smells that were not included in the list of smells in the normal hygiene corners.But Saknur was already pulling her out, so he had to give up.

The two were going to go downstairs and walk back to the soldiers' quarters from the backyard of the castle, instead of going back to the Intelligence Bureau.But I didn't expect that there were guards waiting there, and it wasn't like the watchman on the southeast loft knew them.

"Why did you leave the palace late at night without authorization?" The goat soldier's spear lay in front of the two of them.

Edith and Saknur didn't know how to lie, they only regretted that they didn't choose to go back the same way.The atmosphere was deadlocked, and a strange man's voice suddenly came from behind: "What's going on here?"