The next morning Aryanna practically dragged the Pevensies on. But she had to stop once Edmund's complaining became unbearable.
"You really must be a king, because you are a royal pain!" Aryanna said to Edmund.
"Well we've been walking for hours. And I can't go any further." Edmund said, actually complained.
"He's right, Aryanna." Lucy piped in "It's been a long while."
Aryanna looked around the open field, thinking of what she could do. She spotted a flower and picked it from the ground. She pulled off the petals and gathered them into her hand. The others just looked at her, confused looks on their faces. But all she did was smile and whisper a few words to the petals, before blowing them away. They caught the wind and drifted off through Narnia.
"What did you do?" Peter asked.
"Wait for it." She answered smiling.
And they did, then they heard the sound of horses galloping in the distance. Soon four horses were seen riding over the hills. They started to slow and stopped once they made it to Aryanna's side.
"Is that better, or are you going to complain about the horse's color?" She asked Edmund.
Peter and Susan laughed and then Peter turned to Lucy "You can ride with me, Lu."
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"How much longer?" Susan asked as they rode on.
"We should be getting there soon." Aryanna answered, but stopped her horse's pace. She didn't move. She just sat there completely still.
"Aryanna?" Lucy said, but she still did not stir.
"Hey! Ary-"
"Ssh." Aryanna interrupted Edmund and quieted him.
No one said another word, they didn't even move. Aryanna stayed still for a few moments more.
"Run." She finally spoke to them. None of them moved "Get going!"
Everyone noticed that she was serious and started to gallop off. Aryanna rode behind them and they just looked confused. No one beside Aryanna knew what was happening, when out of nowhere another ride rode up beside them.
"Faster!" Aryanna called out to everyone.
Everyone started to go so fast, that everything around them became nothing but a blur. They kept trying to outrun the intruder but he was catching up fast. As they rode to the end of the forest they began to jump over fallen trees. Then all of a sudden a shriek was heard.
"Lucy!" Peter called behind him as he began to slow. Aryanna looked over her shoulder and saw that Lucy had fallen off of Peter's horse. She made her way over to Peter "Follow along the flowers and you'll find where you need to go."
"But Lu-" Peter began to argue.
"Go! I'll get her." She then started back to Lucy. As she came closer to the fallen girl so did the intruder. She increased, her speed and as she pulled Lucy up onto her horse the intruder brushed past her.
Though her pace sped up the unknown intruder kept close behind her. She looked over her shoulder and saw that he had disappeared, the question was, where? Aryanna continued to ride on with Lucy holding onto her. She thought that she had lost the intruder after a while, that was until his horse was seen again. It had shown up out of nowhere spooking Aryanna's horse.
The horse stood on it's back legs, causing both Lucy and Aryanna to fall off. The intruder came back around and started heading towards them once again.
"Go!" Aryanna told Lucy as she pointed over to a nearby bush. Lucy obeyed and rushed over to the hiding spot. Aryanna quickly grabbed her sword and as the intruder rode past she blocked his attack. Her blade hit so hard against his, that he fell to the ground in the process.
He quickly got to his feet and swung at her again, she easily blocked him again. Their swords came together attack after attack, but the intruder's swordsmanship could not compare to Aryanna's skill and swiftness. She finally caught him off guard and he dropped his sword. She grabbed it quickly and put both blades at his throat. She was just about to strike when he uttered something.
"Aryanna?" He said. Aryanna looked at him and examined his face and then she remembered him.
"Caspian?"
