Kaliyah V, younger sister of Caspian X, was sleeping soundly in her bed, when she was suddenly shaken awake. She opened one eye, saw that it was their dear old Professor, and quickly sat up in bed.
"Professor," she said in a Telmarine accent. "What has happened?"
"It's your aunt, my dear," the Professor replied. "She's just given birth. To a son."
That woke up Kaliyah faster than anything else would have. She leapt out of bed and ran to her closet.
"Dress quickly, and get to the stables, while I go wake up Caspian," the Professor instructed, and bustled out of the room.
Kaliyah pulled on a comfortable dark red dress, then pulled up her hair in a sloppily-made bun, then pulled on her boots and ventured into the secret passageway in the back of her wardrobe. Once she got to the stables, she dropped down on one knee to lace up her boots.
She was just finishing lacing up her last one, when she heard footsteps. She straightened up, and drew her sword.
It was only Caspian and the Professor. Kaliyah relaxed and sheathed her sword. Caspian looked anxiously at her, then relaxed when he saw that she was all right.
"You must make for the woods," the Professor whispered as the two siblings jumped onto their horses.
"The woods?" Caspian questioned.
"They won't follow you there," the Professor explained. He handed a wrapped object to Kaliyah. "It has taken me many years to find this. Do not use it except at your greatest need."
Kaliyah stowed it in her pocket, and asked, "Will we ever see you again?"
The Professor smiled. "I hope so, my dear. There is so much I meant to tell you. Everything you know is about to change."
Suddenly, they heard a noise. The Professor ordered, "Now go!"
And with that, Caspian and Kaliyah rode out of the stables.
They were riding across the drawbridge when they heard explosions and looked back to see fireworks being launched into the sky. Someone shouted, "Lady Prunaprismia has blessed Lord Miraz with a son!"
Kaliyah wrinkled her nose at it all, thinking, "They wouldn't have done all of that if Aunt Prunie had had a daughter."
After that thought, she swore that one of these days, she was going to go back to that castle and tell their little cousin the exact reason why his older cousins had run away. This made Kaliyah feel a little better.
They entered the forest and rode safely across the river. Caspian looked back, and didn't see any of the soldiers chasing them. Kaliyah was still looking ahead.
"Caspian!" she shrieked. "Look out!"
Caspian turned his head around, but got hit on the forehead by a tree branch and fell off his horse. Kaliyah stopped her horse, Ronan, jumped off, and ran over to him.
"Are you okay?" she asked. Caspian sat up, holding his forehead.
Just then, a door in a tree opened up, and two dwarves stepped out.
Caspian shot up and drew his sword, but Kaliyah stood up and didn't draw hers. She was staring at the two dwarves in dumbstruck fascination, since Narnians were supposed to be extinct, weren't they?
One of the dwarves yelled, "They've seen us!" while the other drew a sword and advanced on them.
Kaliyah blinked, then drew out the package the Professor had given her and unwrapped it. The dwarf froze.
The object turned out to be a horn, made of white ivory, with a roaring lion head carved at one end.
The dwarf said something to the other one, then ran at the advancing soldiers.
"Blow it!" Caspian yelled at her.
Kaliyah stared at the horn, then made her decision.
The other dwarf seemed to know exactly what she was going to do, and shouted, "NO!"
He was too late.
Kaliyah raised the horn to her mouth, took a deep breath, and blew the horn. It rang out, and seemed to bounce off the trees around them.
The dwarf flew at Caspian and Kaliyah, then everything went black.