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"Good Luck Peter!" Lucy shouts, waving goodbye to her brother, the High King.
The High King looks back, and waves goodbye. Lucy suddenly turns to her older sister, Queen Susan, who, in a few hours will leave with King Edmund, heading to Calormen to visit Prince Rabadash.
"Can't I come with you?" she asks, looking at her older sister with something like a puppy dog pout.
"You can't. You have to stay here to look over the kingdom while we three are away."
"But-"
"No buts."
"Can't I-"
"No. You can't. Lucy, you have to stay. Goodness knows what would happen if no one were to be left to look after the whole kingdom." Susan says sternly.
"Look Lu. Maybe you should walk around the castle to ease up a bit. You'll find it's not that bad. Would you want to be stuck with her making a choice if she should marry this suitor of hers in Calormen?" Edmund says, looking at both of them. It was a sunny day, and they were standing on the verandah of Cair Paravel.
"It's UNFAIR! I WANT TO GO TOO!" she yelps, and leaves the verandah stomping her feet.
"I wonder will she ever learn?" Susan asks, holding her head.
"She will. Just give her some time." Edmund says, turning his back to her to leave.
...a few hours later...
Lucy was lying on her bed, still mad that she can't go along with the others. She felt her face grow hot with anger. It was just not fair to her that the others get to go, and she wasn't allowed to.
"Your majesty?" a voice says outside the door.
"Come in." she replies with a pillow on her face. She can hear the door open.
"Queen Susan and King Edmund are about to leave. Would you like to see them first?"
"Umm..."
"It would make them feel better. They've been worried since the High King left, after you got angry anyway."
"Alright. If you say so."
Lucy walks down stairs to the door of Cair Paravel. As she feels the ocean breeze rush to her face, she feels a little better. Queen Susan and King Edmund were already on deck the Splendor Hyaline, looking at the shining castle, their home that they were about to leave for a long while.
Spotting Lucy, they wave with a big smile on their faces. Lucy waves back wildly.
"Goodbye! And I do hope you come back safe!" she shouts, for them to hear.
"We will." They shout back, still waving.
After they left, the castle of Cair Paravel was silent. Bored, Lucy decided to walk along the shore of the castle for a while.
Suddenly, a small boat comes to her, with no one on board.
She runs a little bit into the water, forgetting the fact that she wasn't wearing swim clothes for her to do that. She caught hold of a rope tied to the boat, and pulls it ashore.
She sits for a bit on the shore to catch her breath. After a few minutes, she starts to look at the boat. Then she remembered, she has to come in first to change. 'But I should look at the inside of the boat' and starts to look at the content.
What Lucy saw shocked her. A man was on the boat, lying dead still. The man had golden hair, not that long, not that short, ruffled a bit that gave him a little edgy look.
"Oh my goodness!" she gasps, and runs off to the castle to get some help. Luckily, two guards were nearby, and wondering why she was wet to the skin.
They got the man into the castle. Lucy was trying to help, but they stopped her, and asked her change her clothes and take a rest. The servants rushed over to help the stranger, while one of them lead her to her room.
"You may see the stranger tomorrow, your majesty." The dryad says, bowing down.
Lucy had a strange look on her face.
"Is there a problem, your majesty?"the dryad asks, looking at the young queen.
"There's no problem. Goodnight." Lucy replies, holding the door.
As she enters, her mouth curves to smile. She doesn't know what to call this strange feeling she starts to have. As she changes her clothes, she wonders what will happen the next day.
Still wondering, she falls asleep.