Walking out of his room with another person had the guards looking at each other in concern and worry. "Klaus." Edmund addressed one of them. "Please inform my siblings to meet myself and," He turned to see Dhruvika and a small smile crept across her face. "....my friend at the dining room. Tell them that I have something important to tell them."

The guard nodded promptly and made his way to search for the other Pevensies by inquiring with his fellow mates. He found out that the Magnificent King was in the North Tower, the Gentle Queen in the library and the Valiant Queen in her room. He informed their personal guards about the situation and hurried back to his post. He knew that gossip was a treason of a kind but he wondered how the young woman had made her way into the Just King's room without being seen by any of them.

Susan Pevensie was in the library whenever she wanted to free her mind from that day's council meetings. Arguments could get heated and out of hand and she was grateful for her younger brother's negotiation skills. If Edmund hadn't intervened Lord Highwell that afternoon, she would definitely have had trouble calming everyone down.

She was reading her favourite book when there was a knock at the door. "Come in," she said as she carefully kept the bookmark over the page and marked it.

"Your Majesty." The guard bowed down after entering hesitantly. "King Edmund has requested your presence in the dining room."

Peter Pevensie was charting the stars in the North Tower. Earlier that week, he had noticed that some of the markings had been incorrect and needed to be updated as the night skies had changed. He was having a tough time marking the star near the Major constellation because the longitudes and latitudes weren't coinciding at the correct point. When he was going to give up, he heard someone climbing up to the tower, their steps echoing.

Peter could have recognised the footsteps anywhere. "Yes, Miguel?" He called out.

Miguel, the Head of the Guards bowed down and got to the point. "King Edmund requests you to accompany him in the dining room."

Finally, Lucy Pevensie was sitting inside her room and was playing chess by herself, or so she wanted everyone to believe. Edmund kept beating her every time that they played and she did not like losing. She picked up the solid gold chess elephant piece and moved it as she made her move. She had noticed his eye movements that morning and was trying to mimic them. She knew that she couldn't let him win continuously and was firm to find a way out.

"You should try to counteract the movements, beloved."

"I know what I'm doing, Swe! I have to defeat my brother this week. He never lets me rest."

The woman before Lucy made the next move, deceiving the Valiant into a checkmate. "I told you, Lu."

There was a knock at her door, that made the woman disappear into petals and leaves, leaving behind the pleasant incense of the ground right after rain. Lucy wondered when she would see her again, but after hiding the chessboard,  she asked them to come in. She knew who it was because of the unmistakable red scarf that the faun always wore. 

"Mr. Tumnus!" =

"I'm really sorry to disturb you, Your Majesty."

"Not at all. Is everything alright?"

"King Edmund requests your presence in the dining room."

When the three siblings entered the room, almost at the same time, they lingered at the entrance when they saw their brother talking to a young maiden. Peter immediately turned to Susan and seemed to be asking her "Who is she?" but all she did was shake her head. It was Lucy who broke the silence in the room by calling out to the two staring out of the window. "Ed?"

Edmund turned around and the three siblings saw a change that came over him. They had noticed his strange behaviour over the past few weeks. He seemed to be more happy and cheerful. He was more participating and on that night, they were sure that all the positivity in him was because of the maiden.

"Lucy." He smiled and then turned to face the woman. "Ruvi....I mean, Dhruvika, this is my family. Peter, Susan and Lucy."

"Your Majesties." 

An awkward silence took over where the other three siblings kept making eye contact with each other until one of them decided it would be best if they sat down and worked out what was going on. In detail.

And so, they sat down together at the dining table after making themselves a glass of milk each. Dhruvika and Edmund briefed them about the situation and though the confusion still lingered, the three were happy to see him happy. Susan kept eyeing him as she sat opposite to him, which Lucy caught. There was something that was going on and saw that Peter was just as clueless as her. They would have to talk to Susan about it when Edmund wasn't around because they needed to be kept in the loop.

"Can we help in any way?" Edmund asked after the topic of Carmis came up.

Peter sat at the head of the table and was silent the entire conversation. He was noticing Ed's posture and his change of gestures. Maybe it was because of the newcomer but he seemed more confident. "We can help." 

Edmund let out a breath of relief. "We can alert the army and try to track down the Witch before she attacks us, Narnia or anywhere else for that matter."

"Thank you," Dhruvika said. "I don't know what to say right now."

"You don't have to say anything," Susan spoke.

"We are glad to be of help," The youngest said.

Dhruvika turned to look at Ed, he raised his eyebrows at her. "Told you."

"So how did you two meet each other?" Lucy addressed what was running through everyone's mind that night and after the two revealed the truth, Peter intervened.

"If you are who you say you are, and if Oreius has been keeping your secret, then you must accept our invitation of staying with us in the castle."

"What?" Dhruvika forgot how to speak for a moment. "I-"

"Ed." Susan prompted, eyeing the newcomer.

"You could stay here." 

"But-"

"It would be fun!" Lucy said.

"I...." Oreius' words came back to her. If you had agreed to live at the castle, it wouldn't have been a problem. "I would be intruding and I don't want to-"

"You would be doing no such thing." Susan spoke.

Peter stood up calmly from the table. "It's settled then." He said. "I will speak to Oreius. You can stay with us until we figure out how to capture this Crimson Conjurer."

"We'll protect you," Edmund said, taking her hand in his. Although he said 'we', his smile said otherwise.