Thank you EgyLynx, trehugger00 and Lunamione13 for asking what will happen. And here is the answer; or rather the first chapters of three to answer what now the Narnian rulers are going to do with their guests from enemy lands.
Please, all and everybody reading, please keep your seat belts fastened and remember that all is the property of C S Lewis; even though I think what is to come is the best of my story so far!
TRIALS
Cair Paravel, Narnian year 1002.
-"Germany! You come from Germany!" had both Narnian kings shouted in unison, and never had Karl nor Ruth felt like the very ground dissolved below their feet, or even worse; like they just had come from another planet. And it got even more horrible; they suddenly felt very unwanted.
-"Dear my royal siblings," smiled now the always gentle Queen, "may we not act in a haste. Have these children not acted in defence of the real Narnia? Have they not been willing to lay down their lives, smuggling help to whom are now our cousins and dear subjects?"
-"And were not at least one of those loads of helps delivered to a couple of Beavers?" added Queen Lucy, who had summed two and two to know where Narnian clothes came from – at least definitely not from Germany!"
-"I for one think we shall give them a real chance to defend themselves," said king Edmund, in his eyes a strange look. "Please sit down, Peter, and let us decide what to do."
And now the strange thing happened that two guests no more seemed to be present, as Four rulers openly discussed what to do with them. In the end it was decided that they should be questioned by the high court of Narnia as soon as it could convene. Messengers were sent off at once and the kids visiting to their rooms, now guarded from the outside; not to protect honoured guests, but to see to that the same guests were not the reason for harm to the country or the crown.
One week later, the ball for the visitors totally forgotten, the Court sat in session in the throne room.
-"The prosecutor calls lord Karl from Jer Manie in Spare Oom for cross examination!"
And a pale boy, in a much simpler dress that he last time had entered the Great hall, and now with no sword or other weapons, nor any jewels in any form, stepped forward to an elaborate stand.
-"I hereby swear, in the name of the Emperor behind the Sea, to tell the truth as much it is to me revealed. So help me Aslan!
-"Please state your full name!"
-"Karl Wilhelm Adolf Meier."
-"And your full data of birth, for the record, please."
-"I was born on May 3, 1924, in the city of Stuttgart, Baden-Würtemberg."
-"So you were not born in this world? Neither in Narnia, nor in Archenland? Not on any of the Islands, not even in Calormene?"
-"No, I was born to the south in the republic of Germany."
-"And when was that republic established, if you may remind us, young man?"
-"In 1918, after Kaiser Wilhelm lost the great war and abdicated!"
-"Only seven years before you were born? Can not be a realm with much of tradition and culture inherited, then! And what did you do while back in that miserable so called republic?"
-"I grew, your honour, until the time I was old enough to attend school. But then I fell ill; there was some sort of decease that made it harder and harder to use my legs. Finally I had to stay home, and my only outings were when Ruth, my neighbour and friend, had time to spare to push me around in my wheelchair."
-"So you could not really walk?"
-"That is true, I could not, and about a year ago I was taken from the city centre to a fine childrens' hospital outside Stuttgart. But the doctors there, good as they were, could not heal me."
-"And yet you stand in front of us as well as an acorn. Is that not strange? And how come that you entered Narnia?"
-"It was during one of the rare times Ruth got permission to come visit me, sir. She pushed me in the wheelchair around the grounds, and suddenly stood we in front of an old iron lamp post we had never seen before. From nowhere came to me the strength to stand up and touch it, and suddenly we both were not longer in Germany, but in the Western Marches of Narnia.
-"Thank, you, lord Karl, I have no further questions for you. But honoured audience, please listen to what this young man is actually saying. How shallow it is. He says he comes from a state being just a few years old – at the same time implying it had established cultural institutions as schools. He says he is crippled and incurable, still he runs around here like a mountain goat. He is so very well acquainted with the Western marches and finds easily his way here; but has nothing to say of basic things he with necessity should have in Spare Oom, like parents!
The prosecutor had obviously passed from examination to plea, and demanded all to see that this boy was a very bad actor indeed and most naturally a spy, sent to gather information of the Rulers, or even worse, assassin or hurt. This was met by gasps and squeaks from the audience., which then broke down in discussions and arguments.
The order had to be established by King Edmund ordering a lunch break. The Narnians went out to the court to get fed and watered, all but the young King himself, who stayed with Karl and Ruth and saw to that they were also properly lunched. During this he gazed at Karl in such a way that he did not have any choice but feel both liked and encouraged by the youngest male ruler.
And so the days went by. Ruth was questioned over and over and witnesses were called to disprove or confirm her statements.
-"May I ask you squirrels to try to speak one at a time, please. Have or have you not met this lady before?" And they spoke one at a time, but seemingly with no breaks, not even to breathe!
-"We have, we have, and we are very happy we did, because we had had our last nut when she came seemingly out of nowhere, pushing that heavy laden sledge and for free gave us ten times as much nuts as all our combined weight; She surely saved our lives and we still have nuts left and we think she is the most lovely smuggler the world had seen; We are sure she was sent by Aslan, and we are deeply offended by the way she is treated now, and we plead to the High king …."
-"Thank you, my dear cousins, your plea will be accounted of by the Court, as I myself is not sitting as judge here. May I ask the defence to carry on?"
-"May we then hear the former court librarian of the Archenland kings Coupin and Lune. Please! Have you ever met this lady before? If so, how did you come to do it?"
-"I have met her, sir, I know her as lady Ruth; and almost exactly two years ago I had a special dream. In it Aslan told me to go to an abandoned tunnel extending from my house, and at the end I would see two children in the strangest clothes I had ever seen. I was to call them to me and lead them into my home. So I did, and they followed; the boy strangely enough getting strength to by himself walk."
-"Once safe in my place, I was told they had been in Archenland before, foretold by the stars, but only a short time. The centaur doing the interpretations of the sky confirmed this and took both out to training during most days, but many days the lady Ruth stayed with me, reading and learning. She is indeed a very clever girl."
-"Did she ever tell you anything about her past?"
-"Just only a little, sir; she was obviously becoming a foreigner in her own land. Her father lost an editing job and could no longer work on a text that actually belonged to them. She was forbidden to go to school – oh, this is such a pity, with such an intelligent mind being barred from learning!
After a long row of witnesses had been asked both common and strange questions, and that part of court proceedings were about to close, when one young, clear voice was bravely heard above all:
-"Excuse me dear cousins, my I break the protocol here and be allowed to ask one of you a few questions of myself?" After a stunned silence and a short conference by the Judges, it was decided that Queen Lucy might in fact do so.
-"Great appreciation, dearest cousins, I then might be willing to call Mrs. Beaver forward, to tell me about when she first met lady Ruth."
-"She came in the night, your majesty, with a strong Bear I knew had fled Narnia; together filling all Mr. Beaver's cellars with supplies the whole village could share. And three weeks later, she and the boy; lord Karl, came with cloth and thread and needles and all what a seamstress would need."
-"Did you ever see those two again after that?"
-"Not before being called here to testify, your Majesty."
-"But you knew they were here, in Narnia, again, now, years after being smugglers?"
-"Yes, your Majesty, their clothes were sent to me after they met the Judge himself, and I must be rude to say that such ugly clothes were never worn by any Narnian. So I skipped my sleep and sew them new clothes; the one they wore being received here by the Four."
-"Quite a kind deed, indeed, Mrs. Beaver, something you would never do to an enemy of Narnia. How come you knew they were of good intent?"
-"When they came the last time, your majesty, you had already given your handkerchief to Mr. Tumnus, and Aslan had been spotted; so we told of the prophecy and the coming liberation; and when we said who Aslan was and was going to do, their faces lit up all of our home!"
