Once upon a time, King Dinis of Portugal became very suspicious about his wife Queen Elisabeth of Aragon, since he was told that his wife was spending the crown money doing charitable work. 

One day, the King decided to surprise his wife when she was on her way to give bread and alms to the poor. As soon as he saw Queen Elisabeth leaving the royal palace, he took a mantle and followed her. 

The Queen entered a Roman styled house, where a Scipio’s descendant, Cornelia, lived with her two sons, Tiberio and Caio.

Spying unseen from the window, the King distinctly saw Cornelia giving to her wife a lot of precious jewels. So he ran to the door to listen what the two women were saying. 

<Are you sure?

How could you live

without such beautiful jewels?>,

said Queen Elisabeth. 

<Tiberio! Caio! Come here!> replied Cornelia.

<These are my beautiful jewels, your Royal Highness.

Give the rest to the poor>.

King Dinis was absolutely shocked, but relieved in the same time, since no crown money was involved in charity. His wife was innocent, and he shouldn’t doubt her anymore. He ran immediately to the palace and ordered the servants to prepare a special meal. However, the crown money continued to disappear, while the rumors about his wife continued to spread. So he decided to follow her again. Two days had gone by and Queen Elisabeth remained in the palace. The King was getting impatient because he didn’t have arguments to confront his wife without letting her know that she had been followed.

The Queen and her maid stealthily left the castle...

On the third day, he saw the Queen whispering to her maid and a few minutes later the King noticed that stealthily and disguised in a nun’s habit the Queen was leaving the palace.

The King thought he had no time to lose, but he was afraid he might be noticed by the Queen. Suddenly he saw Master Manole, the architect who was doing a great reconstruction work in the main chapel of the castle. The king hurried towards Manole and begged him for his clothes. Although astonished, Manole handed over his dirty clothes.

The Queen was crossing a forest when she heard a strange noise behind her back, as if someone was following her. She did not worry at first because her maid had told her that her husband was suspicious but the sound was very strange, it was a heavy breath or a roar. It did not seem to be human. Suddenly, a wild monster jumped on to her and put its paw on her mouth to prevent her from screaming. The monster was running now through the forest. She tried to escape but it was in vain. Then she remembered the legend of the Beast of Gevaudan.

Nobody knew exactly what it was, some people said it was a big wolf because they heard it bay at the moon

Others that it was half human half monster. Elisabeth could not see it; it was very dark. She only guessed its long and hairy arms, nothing more. In the Gévaudan, a French region, it was accused of several murders and disappearances. She thought that she was coming to died and felt guilty for not telling the truth to the King. She was drawn from her dark thoughts because the monster slowed down. At that moment, she saw the Peca mountain.

And at the same time, she felt the ground shaking as if a massive earthquake hit the mountain. There was a cloud of dust lifting up in the air and as soon as the sky cleared back again, Elisabeth caught a glimpse of King Matjaz, who woke up from his century long sleep in the depths of his mountain.

The sight of King Matjaz was so magnificent that even the wild monster loosened up his grip and ran away, allowing Elisabeth to seek protection in King Matjaz’s cave.

Elisabeth’s husband, King Denis, still wearing Master Manole’s dirty clothes, only witnessed the last scene when King Matjaz followed Elisabeth into his cave. Mistakenly, King Denis assumed his wife was having a love affair with King Matjaz. But of course that wasn’t the case. Deep in the cave, Elisabeth listened closely to King Matjaz explaining about the misfortunes of his nation, making Elisabeth decide to help Matjaz’s people by donating some of her crown money.

King Matjaz felt deeply grateful and told her about a monastery where her charitable work would be desperately needed, too. Queen Elisabeth looked around helplessly. The dark cave was like ice all over it, and it was soaked with water dripping from everywhere. She couldn't go out, her husband's thoughts scared her. She knew that the king had succumbed to his anger, how did he think she was cheating on someone else? She was so upset that she had to find a way to survive, desperate, crying and suddenly realized someone or something was standing next to her.

 In fact, she was in front of the Sahmeran, whom she knew and listened to in all the tales, and she was afraid and very much. Maybe she was going to take her life too, she thought, she remembered seeing everything that was going on in the world from the water bowl of Sahmeran, she looked up at Sahmeran's eyes. There was hatred, hatred, anger, not love, compassion and mercy in those eyes. She had such charming eyes. She felt him overcome all fear within him. Mer I know what you're going through, Queen, never stop helping, never stop being good, reaching out to those in need.  Isn't this the biggest responsibility of the rulers of the countries in the world?