Chapter 2
A few weeks later Ayron woke early in the early morning and quietly got out of bed. Though the king had offered him and Lily their own private apartments in Cair Paravel, they had declined and moved to a small manor two-and-a-half hours riding distance away.
It was a beautiful place, surrounded by trees and with a trellis of ivy and honeysuckle arching over a small path at the back of the house that led to a stream.
Ayron padded his way barefoot down the stairs of the second level and to the first. The first level had many rooms, one of which served as Ayron's study and office where he dealt with the usual business that comes with being the Captain of Narnia's Rangers…to wit, piles of paperwork and reports. Still, he was thankful for the help he had.
Three men had shown up at Cair Paravel a few days after word for members of the Narnian Rangers Guild had been sent to the outlying villages and towns. Of those three men, the one he had come to rely on the most was Dennet. The red-haired man had been the first one to show up, and Ayron had taken an almost instant liking to him. What it was exactly Ayron could not say — but they had formed a strong bond after a few days of working with each other.
Then Royden and Emlyn had come. Together, the four men — and Prince Kylian — worked on forming the Narnian Rangers.
But for now, Ayron sat down at his desk, grabbed his quill, dipped it in the inkpot, and began to write. After all, he had to form certain criteria for the Rangers Guild.
Some of my earlier readers will notice that I changed the name of the King and Prince of Narnia. For those of you who don't know, their names used to be "King Araven" and "Prince Reuel", but are now "King Darian" and "Prince Kylian". I have a reason for this change.
It all began when I noticed a sort-of pattern in the names of the kings. After Caspian X, we meet his son, Rilian. Then, according to my research, we have five kings inbetween Rilian and Tirian, one of whom is Tirian's father, Erlian. Then, obviously, Tirian.
This was the pattern that I noticed:
All of the kings (whose name we know) after Caspian X had six letters in their names, with each name ending in the letters "ian". And, naturally, I wanted to follow this pattern.