"Ehn!? A baby!?", the little girl in blue exclaimed, the flash of awe in her eyes easily visible to her parents as they smiled warmly down at her where she was sitting, held closely on her father's lap, his arms around her waist.

"That's right, Lucina.", her mother said from the chair across the small table in the sitting room in the Exalted chambers. Sumia hadn't been sure that telling the small child so early was the wisest idea, but, looking at the sheer excitement written so clearly across her daughter's face at the moment, all those worries (and all others) no longer mattered at the moment. "Sometime late in spring, you'll have a younger sibling."

The young girl looked up at her Father, thinking that this may be another one of those 'joke' thingies that her parents tended to do. However, Chrom just gave her the warm, loving smile he always had when his daughter was around. "You see Lucina, your mother and I sometimes get lonely now that you sleep in your own big girl room." Chrom always tried appeal to her with phrasings like that-a habit he picked up dealing with noble courts. "So, we've decided to get another child."

He knew he screwed up somehow the moment his daughter's gaze turned from one of wonder into one of despair.

"A-another?", she barely managed. "D-did I do something wrong?"

Chrom panicked. "N-no, of course not! I just meant that with you gone-"

"Gone?" Lucina was beginning to tear up and tremble, causing ice to form in Chrom's veins. He never did know how to settle her. "Y-you're getting rid of me?"

"Of course not, sweetie.", Sumia soothed, standing up and walking over to the chair her husband was in, stumbling slightly as she brushed against the table she was sidestepping. Kneeling down to eye level, she stroked princess's hair as she reassured her. "What your father means is that he can't sleep without a kid next to him, but since you're a big girl now, and big kids get their own beds, he needs a little kid to get to sleep."

Sumia stopped stroking the girls hair and picked her up, hoisting her into the air with a small grunt-she really was a big girl now. "After all, if he can't sleep, then how's he gonna have sweet dreams?"

"Can't I just sleep here again?", Lucina asked pleadingly. She'd only gotten her own room a while ago and still wasn't one-hundred percent on being alone at night.

"Well, you could, but then you wouldn't be allowed to go into town or eat big girl pie anymore."

"B-but I like big girl pie!", Lucina pleaded, unhappy with the idea of losing her favourite food.

"Well, I guess we'll just have to get a baby then, so that you can have more pie, right?", Sumia said confidently.

Lucina's eager nods filled Chrom with a newfound sense of peace. How his wife managed to always get her way, be it with him or their daughter, was something that always put him at ease, like he'd married a truly unstoppable woman. "We'll get the baby in May probably.", he said, standing up and wrapping an arm around his wife's waist and another around his girl.

"How?", Lucina asked, tilting her head.

"Err...", he froze, looking at his wife pleadingly. He really needed to start thinking ahead...

Sumia just giggled softly, slipping away from Chrom's grasp and reclaiming her seat, settling Lucina sideways across her knees. "You see, Lucina, there's this magical farm called the cabbage patch..."