TUMNUS: PART SIX
Years later, when the monarchs of Narnia were no longer children but adults, Beaver came knocking at Tumnus door with exciting news.
"I was fishin' this mornin' at my usual spot when who should come down to the water to drink but the white stag!"
Tumnus clapped his hands in his excitement and rushed off at once to tell the kings and queens. At Cair Paravel, the castle of the four thrones, Queen Lucy was chatting with her good friend Aravis Tarkheena when Tumnus came running in. Lucy greeted him joyfully and he hurriedly told her of the milk-white stag finally being seen again. Excusing herself to Aravis, Lucy ran in and related the news to King Peter in the throne room as she passed it and to Queen Susan, who was in the stables talking to the horses. Soon they had all found Edmund and saddled up some non-Talking Horses that they usually used for hunting. Tumnus saw them off at the gate and then trotted happily down to the castle kitchens for some hay, his favorite afternoon snack when his goat-stomach was usually rumbling.
By nightfall the kings and queens had not returned and some of the servants began to worry. Tumnus assured them that everything was alright and if he knew Lucy well enough she was probably egging them all on. She would not stop until she caught the stag and got a wish and besides he was feeling too content and full of hay and did not feel inclined to worry much at the moment. But by the next evening when they still had not returned he also became very worried. He traveled with a special search party all over the woods where they had last been seed until they came to the old lamppost.
Seeing it all over again brought back memories of the old days of perpetual winter and tears started streaming down his face. He asked Aslan again and again where his dear Lucy could be and swore to give anything to see her again. Then completely by chance his failing middle-aged eyes glimpsed something white lying on the ground. Upon further inspection it turned out to be a horn and not just any horn but the magic horn of Queen Susan. The Pevensies had disappeared leaving only something with which to call them back if they were ever needed again and Tumnus felt that it was going to be alright after all. He walked to his cave to keep the horn there until someone would have to wind it to save Narnia once more knowing that Aslan was watching over them all.