After a few days, she returned to the company. Although she knew nothing about the pregnancy and was extremely frightened, she did not show anything.
But in her mind, she prayed to Aslan that the letter would come as soon as possible. What will she do when her belly is visible? And what's worse! How does Lasalene explain that she is not bleeding?
It was also an ordinary morning. Lazy, she had no idea what she was going to do during the day. She rummaged in her plate for breakfast.
However, the noise behind the door mingled with silence. Peter and Edmund tensed and jumped to their feet as soon as the door slammed open. Against them stood a man, poor, out of breath. Lucy felt she recognized him from the army.
" Telmarines. They want to attack Narnia. "
" There was a truce!" Peter shouted. Edmund was not with them, preparing the army for military defense. Such a situation has not happened under their reign since the attack of Rabadash.
She was silent, watching Peter run around nervously and Susan instructing the servants to help the people of Narnia hide.
And Lucy didn't know what to do. If she had been scared before, now she couldn't even name it.
Aslan, what to do, I have to go to battle with them!
A servant passed through the door.
" Your Majesty, Queen Lucy, King Edmund is calling you. You have to come to the armory as soon as possible. King Peter, King Edmund will meet you at noon in his office. "
The servant bowed and left. She rose uncertainly from her chair.
" Lucy, dear, is something wrong?" Peter asked her.
" Except that Narnia was suddenly attacked by Telmar, almost nothing," she said, shrugging.
She stood in the armory for a moment, watching the soldiers. They polished their swords, prepared their armor, mounted their horses, and inspected their strings and arrows.
" Lucy," Edmund called to her. She went through the soldiers, her eyes trying to find Ramon.
" I need you to prepare archers. At noon we will both meet with Peter and agree on tactics. There are supposedly about ten thousand Telmar residents, it must be fast. "
Lucy took a breath.
All right. I have to do it. They must know nothing. Dear Aslan, protect the three of us.
She turned on her heel.
" Archers boarding!"
I have to be brave. Now is not the time for self-pity.
Lucy was pleasantly surprised when both Peter and Edmund accepted her mind and plan for the fight. She finally felt part of the team, like a queen whose opinion they took seriously.
They pulled out of the poor soldier that Telmar was planning it as a quick war. To attack, plunder, kill and conquer Narnia under them. They planned it in silence, though many of their soldiers resisted. There were said to be a few brave people who had gone all the way to Narnia to warn their people. That's what he found out. But he didn't know if Telmar had already gone into battle, what strategy they had where to strike.
Therefore, envoys and a few soldiers were immediately sent to the Telmar border to immediately announce the arrival of the army in case of emergency.
Lucy was pleased, and the meeting at which they listened to her advice and acknowledged that she was a seasoned archer made her forget what Aslan had told her.
She was going to the room. She checked her bow, sword, dagger, and gradually put on her armor. He and Edmund will be leaving for the border in an hour.
" Queen, Ramon is here, asking permission to enter," Lasalene said from the doorway.
" Let him go, Lasalene, and then you can go," she said, still fitting with the protector on her hand. She needed to tie him up, but she had some clumsy fingers. She always did well, but not now. She was getting nervous.
" Damn," she growled.
" Do you have to go to battle?" Ramon's low voice interrupted her. She sighed and threw the protector on the bed.
" I have to."
" Can't you stay here, in the castle and direct the evacuation? Can't Susan go instead of you? "She heard him begging her.
" Susan is no longer fighting. She is a lady and a lady cannot take part in a battle. "
" And who are you?"
" Queen Lucy the Valiant."
" What if something happens to you?"
Lucy finally looked at Ramon. He was sad.
" They finally accepted me. They finally found out that I could plan a battle with them. I have to use it, Ramon. I was finally preparing the archers and I will direct them during the battle. He finally trusts me, Ramon! After almost five years of fighting! "
He hung his head.
" I know. I heard about it. You were good. But Lucy ... "
He paused, came to the bed, and grab the protector. He walked over to her. He fastened it to her left forearm and checked the protector on her other hand.
" ... you have to promise me something."
" Nothing can ever be promised before a battle," she smiled sadly at him.
" I know. But now I need you to promise me that. I can't be with you. I'll be here, at the castle. "
Lucy nodded. She knew about it. Ramon will guard the castle and help Susan.
" Be careful. To yourfelf and to her. Please."
" I'll try, Ramon," she said, stroking his cheek.
He helped her fasten her belt with her sword and dagger, slung her quiver for arrows over her shoulders, and took her bow.
" Will you take me to the armory?" She asked him. He nodded.
There was no panic in the castle, despite the impending threat. The Narnians knew that they had wise and brave rulers who would protect them even at the cost of their own lives.
Therefore, as Lucy and Ramon walked through the castle, the servants often turned behind them. They looked fearless. They didn't even notice when their youngest queen had grown up, and no one understood why she suddenly looked so proud. She even had a gentle smile on her lips.
She knew that Aslan was protecting her, although he forbade her to enter the battle, she knew that under her heart she was carrying a man whom she was slowly but surely beginning to like more and more.
She sat on her horse with her bow outstretched and listened to the silence that suddenly took place there. A while ago there was the roar of swords, screams, and now there was silence. But it was not over, although the battle had lasted for the third day.
The Telmarians attacked in full force almost immediately after the arrival of the Narnian army. They weren't waiting for anything. And even though Telmar withdrew, everyone knew he was not after the battle.
She was alone in the middle of the battlefield. She didn't know where her brothers were. She looked around, looking for a place where they could strike again, and especially where she could now hide quickly. On the ground in the meadow, but also among the trees, there were dead talking animals, fauns, and men that Narnia lost, but and many Telmarines.
Suddenly she noticed a slight movement on her right. She knew she was like a target - exposed to everyone sitting on a horse.
" Shit," she stammered, and just in time she swung her leg and slid off the horse to the ground. Just after hitting the ground, her horse braced on its hind legs, neighed in pain and galloping away.
Oh, forgive me for sacrificing your innocent life for my own.
Again, silence and suddenly there was a joyful but at the same time desperate cry.
" The queen has fallen!"
She heard screams start again and the battle began again. Before she could react in any way, the soldiers were with her, and with them Edmund.
" Lucy," he sobbed at first, but then realized she was moving and getting to her feet.
" You're alive!" He exclaimed, wanting to hug her.
" There is no time for that. We have to beat them, "she pushed him away." Where's Peter? "
" He went to avenge you."
Lucy played a smile on his lips.
" Go help him, I'm going to the archers."
" Soldiers to fight!" Edmund shouted, heading against the army.
Lucy twisted on her heel and burned her back. The archers held positions on the rock.
" Highness," one of them bowed.
" Eliah, we will force our army to retreat so that you have a target within reach. You will wait for my signal, then you will fire. There may be about ten thousand of us, but their numbers have also dropped a lot. We will win today. "
Eliah nodded. Lucy handed him her bow and arrows and ran back. As soon as she got into the whirlwind of battle, she drew her sword and began to repel the attacks with it. Although the men were taller than her, they underestimated her strength.
" Retreat!" She shouted, which was enough for her throat. Peter was fighting nearby. When he heard her voice, at first he thought it seemed to him, but when he noticed her standing alive and well, almost uninjured, except for a few scratches. and the bruises on her face began to laugh.
She made another move again, he thought, and also called for his soldiers to retreat. The army began to retreat.
Lucy knew I could do it. The Telmarcans fought hard.
" Shields!" She cried again, and then Peter and even Edmund repeated. The Narnians raised their shields over their heads, and that was a signal to the archers.
When she calculated at that moment that there were five thousand Narnia archers, and if everyone hit only once, Telmar would soon have to retreat.
And she was right. When the first wave of arrows passed, Telmar withdrew. Narnia went into battle again. More furious and harder than before.
At the end of the fourth day of the battle, the field was filled with blood and bodies. But the war was won and Narnia was protected. Telmar surrendered and, after killing the king's strongest warrior, decided to withdraw voluntarily. He even came to Peter and proposed a new peace treaty.
As long as their Majesties Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy and their children are on the throne, Telmar will not attack Narnia.
That's how it sounded.
The army was returning home. On the one hand, happy because they won. But on the other hand, a cloud of apprehension hovered over their heads.
How to tell mothers that their sons and men will not return? What to say to children who will grow up without a father?
Lucy worried about it. She refused to go on horseback on the way back. She walked away with the soldiers. Her long hair, which she had been hiding under her helmet, flowed on her bloodied armor, and she wiped not only dried sweat from her forehead, but also her own blood.