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Chapter 10: The Huge Reunion
Trufflehunter was standing outside Caspian's room. He held a food tray out with some fresh homemade soup, a crust of bread, a spoon, a napkin, and a mug of water.
"Ah, you're up. That's excellent! Princess Jade is the best nurse in Narnia, since every patient she gets winds up in a good condition." Trufflehunter smiled at her, kindly.
She blushed, "Oh, I didn't do much! It was mainly Trufflehunter who did the work. I just bandaged your head and made sure you didn't have a fever."
"That's not all you did, Your Highness. You also fought the Talmarines and even tried to get Trumpkin back from them. For a moment, I thought you'd died! However, you weren't injured at all. It was a miracle you survived!" Trufflehunter smiled at her. Caspian blinked, and then something that Trufflehunter said hit him.
"Our guest doesn't appear to be fully well, Princess." Nikabrik scoffed, as Caspian went pale.
"Your Highness, did you really fight to get one of your people back?" Caspian asked Jade.
"Why, yes of course! I don't like it when cruelty is brought into Narnia. This is supposed to be a wonderful and glorious land, thriving with all Narnians and peaceful strangers. Alas, it's not that way now. I will never stop fighting to save my people from those who are evil," Jade declared.
"But why would you risk your life to save one person?" Caspian asked, ignoring the looks he was getting. Jade's normally warm hazel eyes flashed.
"I would rather die knowing I saved a more important life, than to go on living with the guilt of not saving a friend. Now, I must live with that guilt forever." She got up and left to cry outside. Caspian got up to go after her, but Trufflehunter shook his furry head.
"She does this a lot, although I do not think she's upset by the fact that she couldn't save Trumpkin." Trufflehunter said, solemnly. Caspian showed his confusion.
Trufflehunter sighed and said: "I can't tell you why she weeps. It is not my duty."
The following morning, Jade was gone.
"Where's the Princess?" Caspian asked, a bit sad.
"Gone. She did say goodbye, although you were asleep. Don't worry; you'll see her around Narnia. Her Highness comes and goes as she wishes, but always says goodbye." Trufflehunter explained.
"But why did she go?" Caspian said, puzzled.
"Don't know. She had a vision of the beach near Cair Paravel and some people she knew. But I suppose the real reason why she left is because she still misses him." Trufflehunter suddenly put his paws over his mouth.
"Who?" Caspian asked, intrigued.
"I can't tell you!" Trufflehunter said, through his paws.
"Why ever not?" Caspian said.
"It's not my place to say. If you want to know, ask the Princess herself. She may or may not tell you."
"Well then, I'll not question you further, good Badger." Caspian bowed and left. Jade went to the beach, and saw all four Pevensies once again.
"Look! It's Jade!" Lucy shouted out, running in her bare feet towards the Princess.
"Lucy!" Jade exclaimed, embracing her.
"What are you doing here? Or were you just wandering about?"
"Honestly, I Saw you arrive here and wanted to welcome you. All of you." Jade looked beyond Lucy at the rest of the Pevensies. She couldn't see Edmund because he had lost his hat in the sea and had just gone behind a huge rock to retrieve it.
"Hello Susan!" Jade embraced her friend.
"It's great to see you again, Jade. You haven't changed a bit." Susan smiled.
"Neither have you!" Jade kissed her forehead.
"Jade!" Peter hugged her.
"Peter, I'm very pleased to see you again." She curtsied to him.
Edmund shook the water out of his hair as he returned to the beach. Jade grinned and ran to him. She leapt into the air and wrapped her arms around him. He held her close in his arms, falling back into the water.
She laughed as the sea splashed her face. She heard laughter and buzzing of wings. Closing her eyes, she got off of Edmund with an annoyed look.
"What is it, love?" He asked, confused.
"It's…" She was cutoff by one of her sisters plowing her into the waves. She growled, playfully and splashed her sister. Her sister had a lovely pink dress on, that was now splashed with water. This sister had long brown hair to her waist.
"Jane!" Jade laughed as her sister tickled her.
"Stop it, already!" Another girl flew to Jane's side. She had light brown hair that went to her midback. She was wearing a pretty white dress.
"Wait! Before we go too far, we must introduce ourselves. Isn't that right, Kyle?" Jade looked at her brother who sighed and put his hands down. A pile of wet sand plopped back into the water.
"You're no fun anymore!" He pouted at her, his brown hair falling into his blue eyes. He was wearing grey robes. Three other boys came out, two looking like they were the eldest of the lot.
"Jade, what about those introductions?" One of them asked, wearing maroon robes.
"All right, all right!" Jade cleared her throat.
There was still a loud amount of talking and buzzing of wings. Jade blew a strand of her hair out of her eyes.
"Attention!" She shouted, military like. All her siblings stopped talking and landed at once.
"Thank you. Now, first people first." Jade dragged the one that was wearing maroon robes out first.
"Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy… This is my eldest brother Jason. Jason, the Royal Pevensies." Jade let them shake his hand.
The next boy was introduced as Jay. He was wearing dark green robes, and had blonde hair. After Jay was Jane. Peter caught her eye and his stomach turned over. She blushed, prettily and curtsied to him. He kissed her hand.
"Now, this is Kyla. She's actually really shy, normally." Jade teased her sister. Kyla wrinkled her freckled nose in retaliation. The next sister wore a deep purple gown, and her hair was such a light shade of brown that it looked blonde.
"Everyone, this is Laura. She loves a good challenge!" Jade winked at her. Laura stuck her tongue out at Jade, when the Pevensies weren't looking. Kyle was reintroduced.
"Where's Lacey?" Jade asked, and then she sighed.
"And in three… two… one…" Jane counted. A blonde girl in a lavender dress tumbled out of the bushes. She giggled and curtsied to everyone.
"There she is! Late as always, but still lovelier than we are!" Jade said, kissing her youngest sister's head.
"Oh, that's not true! You've always been the beauties of the family, Jane and Jade." Lacey blushed.
"Honestly, we all are beauties. Even Kyle!" Jane wrinkled her nose at her brother.
"Hey, don't leave us out of it!" An auburn haired boy wearing blue robes stood in front of Jade.
"Don't worry, little brother! I won't!" Jade kissed his forehead. He was only 425 years old, which is about 16 years old in human years.
"This is my brother Link. He's the second youngest, although he begs to differ!" She grinned at the look on his face.
"And last, but never least, this is my youngest brother Lance. He's 310 years old, which would be… 12 years I believe in human years." Jade kissed her brother's head.
He shook everyone's hand, kissing Susan and Lucy's hands. Lucy giggled. Lance also had auburn hair, but he wore red robes. He was the perfect height for Lucy, just a tad taller.
"If my parents were here, I'd love for you all to meet them. Sadly, they're away at the moment in Archenland. They should return by tonight." Jade informed them.
"Well, it was wonderful to see you all again. Regrettably, we must leave. We have to prepare for the celebration tonight." Jane said, guiding her sister away.
"Oh! I nearly forgot! It's Jay's birthday today, and we're throwing a big party. It would be an honor to have you four as our guests, if it's quite all right with you." Jade said.
Peter bowed to her, "It would be our honor, Princess!" Jade smiled and kissed his cheek.
"Thank you, my King!" She curtsied to him and let her sisters take her by her arms. She was flown away, waving goodbye to the Pevensies.