A/N: Never written Chronicles of Narnia before so inform me please if there is any mistakes in the story. Also I have never written a story in english before so if you find something strange in the text please tell me so I can fix it. And hopefully not do it again :)

1.

Edmund watched the sun rising from the sea while sitting on the beach. He was barefoot and the cool water reached nearly to his toes. His siblings were still asleep at this early in the morning. He had woken up from a nightmare and unable to continue sleeping, decided to go walking in the beach and watch the sunrise. It was early spring and for some reason, he always saw the nightmares of her then. Maybe it was the Christmas that prevented him from seeing the dreams at winter, he didn't know and he would have preferred not to see them at all.

Edmun rose from the ground he had been sitting and started to walk back to the Cair. He was supposed to leave today to north. Peter would be leaving to Lone Islands tomorrow as he had promised and as such unable to see the situation at north himself as he normally would do. Northern areas were his jurisdiction technically and Edmund would have rather left it to him anyway. He didn't know the north very well. He faired much better in forests.

There had been some strange commotion going on, according to the Mice, Squirrels, Birds and Bats, who kept an eye on things for Edmund. What was the strange thing, was that the commotion didn't come from the Ettins, who lived behind the northern border.

It came from humans.

And Edmunds eyes and ears in Narnia didn't know any better than Edmund himself, where the people were coming from. According to every book, scroll and legend in Narnia, behind the Ettin lands shouldn't live humans anymore. Only hags, werewolves and other creatures of the night. One possibility could be, that the humans had come from sea, but how would have they managed to make ashore in the Ettin coastline. He was fairly sure that the giants wouldn't have let them come in peace.

So he needed to go and find out. It did not do to have unknown possible threats running around Narnia doing who knows what. Edmund rolled his eyes. It would probably be useless to hope that they could be just some harmless humans in trouble. Perhaps lost after a shipwreck?

Edmund sighed.

He somehow doubted it.

……….

Edmund walked through the door of the dining room his personal guards, Snow Leopards Therren and Shalang trailing behind him and saw his siblings sitting at the table chatting freely of non important things. He was already dressed in his traveling clothes. He planned leaving as soon as the breakfast was over.

"Morning Ed", Lucy said as he sat next to her. "Did you sleep well?"

Always the caretaker, Edmund thought a bit amused. Lucy was the only one who hadn't believed him when he had claimed that the nightmares had stopped and so the only one who knew, he still had them. He had stopped complaining about them few years ago, not wanting to worry his family. Lucy hadn't liked it, but had promised not to tell Peter or Susan that he still suffered from them.

"Morning, I slept like I normally do", Edmund answered knowing, Lucy would understand his meaning.

"You are leaving already?" Susan asked noticing his clothes.

Edmund nodded. "Right after breakfast. I want to get the job done quickly so I can come back. I really don't like your marshes, Peter."

"My marshes? I thought they were all of us", Peter scoffed.

Edmund inclined his head. "Yes, but you are the one who Aslan gave what is beneath the Northern skies, are you not?" He raised his eyebrow to his brother who was glowering to him.

"Now you are splitting hairs."

Edmund grinned and nodded. "Of course, isn't that my job?"

Peter rolled his eyes. Edmund smiled and finished his breakfast quickly. Then he stood giving Lucy a hug, doing the same with Susan and Peter.

"I'll be off then. Have fun at the Lone Islands Pete."

"Be careful, Edmund. We don't know who those people are", Susan said to him worriedly.

Edmund nodded. "I will. Don't worry. At least for me anyway", he added glancing pointedly at his brother.

"What?!"

Lucy and Susan laughed. "I think he means all the beautiful ladies you are going to meet on your journey."

Peter blinked and started massaging his temples. "Thanks guys. Now I have the headache already", he complained. Edmund snorted and bid his goodbyes. After a few more warnings and brotherly advices, he headed to the stables where Phillip would be waiting with faun Calen and twenty soldiers.

However, the journey to the stables proved to be a long one. Nearly immediately after he had stepped outside the dining room, he was accosted by his head of intelligence department with latest reports from the North and West. After he had gotten rid of the talkative magpie, he had walked perhaps four meters when he bumped into a very concerned aspen Dryad, who needed to know whether she should change the curtains of the hallway to burgundy or aniline. Edmund spent the next five minutes convincing the Dryad that his sisters were better qualified to solve that problem. Therren and Shalang found his problems very amusing.

Edmund sighed in relief when he could continue his journey. Then he almost groaned. The next bypasser was a nobleman from Archenland, not in very high position, with whom he had gotten drunk at one party couple of days ago and ended up sleeping with. Not that he wasn't a nice guy, he was a very nice guy (and quite talented at bedroom), but Edmund really wasn't looking any permanent relationship, no matter how much Susan tried to convince him otherwise, and this nobleman seemed to be one those kind of people who didn't do one night stands. And Edmund really didn't want to go through that conversation right now. He considered a moment letting Therren, who absolutely loved scaring the foreign people, loose at the nobleman. Unfortunately there would probably be unpleasant consequences, so he plastered a polite smile on his face, increased his speed and passed him quickly with a bit overly cheerful greeting.

After turning around a corner, Edmund slowed down a bit. He dreaded what would happen next. He was quite sure that he wasn't going to get to the stables without anymore interruptions.

He was right.

The stables were full of bustling when he finally managed to reach them (after a cookie hunt, solving an argument between two badgers and escaping a punch of giggling ladies who obviously failed to notice his quite obvious attraction to the more masculine gender). Busy animals, fauns and centaurs hurried in and out of the building, all with some sort of task. Edmund walked to Phillip, who was waiting at the door of the stable. The great cats followed and sat next to the Horse.

"Hello friend. Is everything ready?" Edmund said to the Horse.

Phillip nodded. "Yes, Sire. Captain Calen is waiting for your order."

"Alright", Edmund muttered as he hopped to the back of the Horse. "May as well get this over with. Captain! Move out!"

The King, captain and the twenty soldiers left trotting through the gate of Cair Paravel while Queen Lucy watched high from the window of the dining room the groups departure. May Aslan watch over you brother.