A week after the banquet and the battle to defend the Cair Thomas walked proudly down the streets of a small village near Lantern Waste with the kings and queens. People stood all around cheering. The company passed out of the village and stopped at their summer lodge and unpacked. Susan directing what needed to go where and who needed to do what. Thomas being the good natured chap that he was got the brunt of Susan's directions. Susan distributed work evenly but Thomas being the lowest man on the totem pole was given everything. After they were done unpacking Thomas sat outside on the veranda looking out into the forest. Something felt strange and almost like it was drawing him to the forest. Lucy came out and sat next to him.
"Is something wrong Tommy?" She asked sarcastically. Normally Thomas would of not been happy about being called Tommy but right now he wasn't paying attention.
"Somethings off. I'm going to investigate." And he darted off.
"I'm coming with you." Lucy said as she ran to catch up with him. Thomas was fast cause he had to keep up with Oreius during training and such. Every one around the palace has started to call him a cross breed. Cause according to the palace staff, he can run like a Centuar, had the temper of a Minotaur (that one's true) and other weird stuff. Oh and the face of a hag. Thomas would just shrug it off and laugh with them. Well anyway Lucy was having a heck of a time following him that they didn't notice where they were. Eventually Thomas stopped at the mouth of a cave. Lucy ran up behind him panting like she'd been running for days. Thomas went to go in but Lucy stopped him.
"This is the cave where I got the sword of Healing. There's a steep slope almost directly in." Thomas nodded and walked in. His sword was tugging at his side so Thomas drew it out. It shined brightly and pulled him in the direction it wanted to go shinning brightly and illuminating the whole passage.. They got to the slope but Thomas stopped as if pondering something.
"Hey Lu, race you down." And with that he jumped down without saying go.
"Hey no fair." Lucy called as she jumped down after him. They came to the bottom where she bumped into Thomas. Thomas didn't react and got up and continued on their journey. Eventually the same voices spoke to them.
"It is the queen." Thomise the warrior said.
"And who is this with you your majesty?" Theagiy the skinny one said.
"He wields the sword of Healing. I take it this is the boy who caused your first visit?"
"Yes, this is Thomas."
"Ah yes her majesty told us about you and how you saved her life." Thomise said. "From what I hear you could rival the blood of Frank."
"Well sir if what my parents say is true then I am of the line of Frank. A distant cousin or something."
"What is your father's name?" Thomise asked. He seemed rather interested.
"Thogas and I have no clue what my grandfather's name is."
"His name is Thomise and it is him who I was named after. You see by the gift of Aslan we were given a few special powers. Mine is the gift of unending endurance to me and those of my allies." This next part was directed to Lucy. "I'm sure you remember our journey in the cave and how you never tired."
"I do."
"And Gwon was gifted of keen insight, able to know if someone is lying by just looking at them." Thomise said solemnly. "But a gift that all our line, which is from the youngest son of Frank the first is we are immortal. We get to a certain age and then we do not age any further. We can still get killed yes but we do not age."
"What is my gift?" Thomas asked.
"I do not know, it could be anything. Tell me what is something that you have a high abundance of."
"He has amazing willpower." Lucy said after Thomas didn't answer.
"No that is not it Lu." Thomas said. "Remember when you healed me you said that I was starting to lose sanity. And from was my uncle here says than I have an unending supply of it."
"You are correct with your assumption nephew. Tell me something about the battles you've been in."
"Well I've haven't been in that many battle, I've defended the Cair yes but I haven't actually been to war."
"Ooh I know something, every time I've fought with him I get and amazing supply of courage. It's the same when he's trying to prove a point. He'll say something and I get his amazing feeling."
"Ah inspiring courage and loyalty and such. That is your gift, use it wisely because you can easily persuade people and you can cause a lot of trouble if you use it wrongly." Thomise warned.
"I will try." Thomas said.
"Ah who is this?" Gwon the prophet said.
"My nephew and your second cousin." Thomise said happily.
"Ah our time of living in the darkness is over. We can again journey in the land above." Gwon said. Gwon tapped his staff on the ground and they were all at the mouth of the cave again. The group walked back to the lodge and introduced the three new friends.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Peter said.
"Ah you must be high king Peter." Theagiy said.
"Yes, this is my sister Susan and my brother Edmund." Peter said a she pointer to each one. "I would like to properly thank you for helping my youngest sister find the sword that healed sir Thomas. He is an invaluable aid at the Cair."
The three nodded and smiled.
Now Know know that all this stuff is not in the books but I for one thinks it makes a good story. Thomas's immortality is based off of J.R.R Tolkien's elves in his stories the Lord of the rings.
I know Thomas's power might not seem as cool as Thomise's but it will have a big role in future development.
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