After all that commotion in the bedroom, the four decided to give me some time to relax and gain my composure (or possibly my memory). I honestly thought about running away from this all. The one thing that actually kept me staying was the little girl with red hair. If I left her now, I would have to remember that look in her eyes when I pushed her hand away. I felt so bad afterwards about that, and I know when I'm ready I'll have to apologize for it.
If I'm going to stay now though, I needed to find out how to gain my memory back if I could. So I finally escaped from that room I had been in this entire time to explore through what looked like a very fancy, rich person's house. I walked out of my room and down the hall. There were beautifully painted pictures of flowers, lions, and lambs, all down the hallway. A nicely designed rug also ran down the hallway's entirety and there had to be at least 10 doors down the wide hallway. I turned the corner only to run into more hallways, and after that, even more hallways. I finally reached an opening that led to another part of the castle after what felt like 20 minutes of walking through hallways. If I hadn't ran away yet, the four would still be thinking I had with how large this place was.
I mysteriously looked around the next large part of this house and it seemed to be a very large foyer that led to somewhat of a ballroom. I heard voices walking out of the ballroom, and, not wanting to get caught snooping, I quickly turned back into the hallways. As I turned the corner, I ran right into a person.. or a thing..a horse-person.. with two legs and a tail.. and horns. I stood up, feeling very dizzy again after being practically knocked down by this thing.
"Oh, my dear Lysette! I am so sorry." She offered me her free hand, holding a plate of food in her other.
Not quite sure, I still took her hand and she did have the strength to pull me up, and my eyes weren't playing tricks on me with the lower half of her body. "I know you?" I asked her.. er.. it.
"Yes.. Yes! You do. I am Mrs. Tumnus, dear. Are you feeling okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine." I lied. The room was actually beginning to spin again, but if I didn't admit it then I thought it would go away. "Uhm.. Mrs. Tumnus," I started,"Can you tell me where I usually am.. like normally in this place?"
"Oh, dear.. Are you sure you are feeling well? If you mean it that way, you do normally spend all your day with Edmund or archery with Susan or reading in Peter's library. Something along those lines.."
"I see.. Are those the four people, the little one with the red hair.. and the tall one with blonde hair and the blue eyes, that guy?"
She stared at me as if I grew another eye.. which could be possible I bet in this world. "Oh dear.. I'll get you water, you surely are not feeling well today.." And with that she scurried away on her horse hooves.
I ran a hand through my blonde hair in exhaustion. Speaking of blonde, the blonde hair boy just turned the corner towards me.
"Mrs. Tumnus told me you were up and about, are you feeling ok?" He walked up to me and put a hand on my forehead. If he went to my school, all the girls would be freaking out about this guy right now!
My legs almost gave out beneath me but I would NOT let that happen right now. With all my strength, I kept my eyes open and my legs straight and strong. "Yeah, I'm fine. I was just.. exploring. All of this is so fancy."
"Haha," He chuckled. "It's actually called Cair Paravel. Here let me show you around," he offered me his arm and this was the first willing interaction I had with another person in this world. "And this world is Narnia. If you don't remember, then I might as well teach this all to you again," he smiled an award-winning smile.
Just then, everything became hazy and I saw something..
There I was, lying in the grass outside of what looked like a palace. Someone was lying next to me and we both laughed and laughed thinking of things that the clouds in the sky could be. I turned my head, and it was that blondish brown haired, 18-year-old girl from my bedroom.
"Haha, you know, this is the most fun I've had in forever," she said to me, giving me a hand to help me up. We both were wearing long, embellished dresses and I was quite surprised that we weren't sweating or even complaining about the heat.
We started walking down the hill, away from the castle. That's when I looked to the right and there was a little section of land cut off in the woods. There were bulls-eyes lined up all down the section of land; I guess that's where the archery practices were. Learning this, she took of running and I ran to keep up, both smiling like little girls.
When we got there, "First shot for you, Miss Lysette," She said playully, handing me a bow and arrow.
"Thank you, Miss Susan." I said in a polite voice, but pretty comical. I got ready to shoot and let the bow loose, flying through the air. And it hit! Right on the target! I was actually pretty impressed with myself to say the least. From what I remembered, I had never shot a bow and arrow in my life.
Everything in the present starting becoming clear again. I still held Peter's arm and he was talking away explaining rooms in the castle and I actually felt pretty bad that I hadn't been paying attention. I felt kind of lost, but I wouldn't trade that for not having the vision. I knew it had to be real in the past. I couldn't have just dreamed that up.
"Hey," I addressed him. Not quite knowing his name yet..
"Hmm?" He stopped and looked over at me.
"Do you mind, coming down to the archery field with me?" I asked politely.
His eyes brightened. "Sure, you've never asked me to do that before."
"Yeah, well I think I remember something about archery. And if I don't mentally, then maybe my hands will." I smiled and with that he led me to the front door, and outside looked just like it did in my vision. And I couldn't be more encourage about that.