AND HERE WE GO!
Peter sat in his study at his desk, he was angry. How could she be so ignorant? "Peter," he heard his sister Susan call.
"What," he gritted through his teeth.
"She'll be fine, you know she is strong."
"She still should have taken at least one guard with her."
Susan let out a sad chuckle. "I thought you knew her better," she shook her head.
"I need to find her Susan."
"Peter its almost dark, it'll be difficult to find her if you send people out now again. They've already been searching for two hours, and nothing."
"We need to find her," he snapped.
"She will be fine," she told him again. "Now will you calm down?"
"Calm down? Honestly, you expect me to calm down while Marlow is some where out there in the hands of her kidnappers? I care about her far to much, you know I love her," he snapped.
"You think you're the only one who is effect?" Before another word Susan stormed out of his study. He knew she was right; the search would have to be called off till morning. Instead he increased the security. If some one was after Marlow, those people might be after him and his siblings.
Meanwhile….
I was waking up, I could feel the heat of a fire on my face. I wanted to move, but my head throbbed. I was in so much pain, what happened? I remember riding through the forest with Darcy, and there was something in the brush. I went to check on it, and then something must have hit me, or someone might have hit me. I tried to open my eyes, but it didn't work. I knew there was a fire to my left, which meant people. They had to be camping, most likely I had been captured, but the weird part was my hands weren't tied, nothing was. I could easily run.
"Maybe I hit her too hard…" I could hear a male voice say.
"She has been out for hours," I heard a female voice say.
I accidentally groaned when I tried to move. I felt the heat of the fire blocked, which I wasn't to happy about, it was fall currently and it was chilly. "Marlow, Marlow can you hear me," the male voice called.
I opened my eyes slightly to see a girl and a boy hovering over me. The girl had long hair, it was straight. From what I could tell her hair was a dark brown color, maybe black? She had blue eyes; I could even tell that from the small light that the fire was giving off. She looked to be around my age. And the boy, well he had light brown hair, but the same eyes of the girl. And they both shared tan skin. They both looked so familiar. "How do you know my name," I croaked.
The girl let out a small smile, and when I tried to sit up she pushed me back down. "You need to rest."
"You didn't answer my question. And if you are trying to kidnap me, then you have to be horrible kidnappers, I mean…I'm not even tied up!"
"That's because we aren't trying to kidnap you," stated the yonger boy amused. "You honestly don't remember us? And here I thought we were like family to you."
I heard a chuckle, when I realized who the two people were, "Blaire? Godric, is that really you?" They both smiled, nodding. "Oh my goodness," I flung myself on them, instantly regretting it when my head spun and I fell. "Why does my head hurt so much?"
Godric looked at the fire, looking guilty. "It was an accident," Blaire told me. "We heard something walking through, and I guess you startled us. We never remembered humans living in Narnia, and you were alone. So Godric hit you in the head…a little to hard. You've been out cold for hours."
I was shocked, and that was also when I remembered I was supposed to meet Peter for dinner. "Oh no, this is bad."
"What's wrong?"
"Peter, he must be having a panic."
"Peter, who is Peter?"
"Oh that's right," remembering they didn't know that there were Kings and Queens now. "There are now four kings and queens of Narnia. Lucy, Susan, Edmund, and High King Peter," I told them.
"Since when," Godric questioned.
"Since we defeated Jadis."
"Jadis, impossible, she served under us."
"Yes, till we were brought out of Narnia. She took over, putting Narnia into a hundred years of winter. She ruled Narnia with the power of fear. But then I was brought here, and I was sent here to protect the new kings and queens. I fought along side with them, and she fell. And now they have been ruling for just less then a year."
"Hm," Began Blaire. "I see you found yourself another King."
I glared at her, I didn't like the way she put that. "Blaire," warned Godric.
"Well, but what about Holden," she defended.
"Dead," I told her bluntly. "But it's alright, I talked to him thanks to Aslan, at least I really think it was him. He came to me in a dream, he told me how he had moved on after I had left, married and had a family of his own. Told me that he wanted me to do that same thing," Even though it was true, I still missed him. I did love Peter; I loved him a lot actually. But just not saying good bye to Holden really did get to me, and it was sad. He was my first love.
"Oh right, I'm sorry Marlow, I didn't mean to sound rude."
"Don't worry about it," I stared off on to the fire. "Might as well rest, we'll go to Cair Paraval as soon as the sun rises." I lay back down, not wanting to talk anymore. Before I knew it I was in a deep sleep.
The next morning I woke just before the sun, I woke up both Blaire and Godric. We gathered what we could and began our journey on the trail. But about half an hour of walking we began to grow hungry. "I'll go find some berries in the forest or something, you both keep on this trail, it will lead you directly to the castle."
"No, we'll come with you," protested Blaire.
I shook my head. "Just go, I know Narnia better then you since I have been here for a while now. I'll get you both something; I promise I'll catch up." I reached into my bag, taking out a dagger. "Here," I said hanging Godric the dagger. He gave me a questioning look. "In case you run into trouble, I have one as well, so now we can both have on."
They went on down the trail, knowing that it was useless to argue with me. I smiled at that thought, and went into the forest in search of food. Eventually I found an apple tree and picked an apple for me, one for Blaire, and one for Godric. I placed theirs gently in my bag while ate mine and walked back to the trail to find my two friends.
I approached a large hill, and I knew I would see them just beyond it, and Cair Paraval. As I approached the top of the hill I could start to see the towers of the palace, making me smile. But then I heard voices, "Where is she?" I knew that voice, it was Edmund.
"I told you, she went to get apples!" And that was Godric.
"Yeah right, I am sure she did. And she gave you her dagger? Just tell us where she is and you will not be as harshly punished."
I peeked over the hill. Blaire and Godric were tied up, Edmund had about seven or so soldiers with him. "Like we said, we did nothing to her. We don't know where she is, but she is most likely on her way. And we did not kidnap her, we're her friends. I'm Lady Blaire, and this is my cousin, Sir Godric.," Blaire defended.
I could tell Edmund was frustrated. He looked about ready to lash out. "Edmund," I yelled rushing down towards them. "What do you think you're doing?"
He seemed surprised to see me, "Marlow!" He watched me as I undid their bindings.
I looked towards the young king. "They are no threat; they are who they say they are. If anything, they helped me."
"I'm sorry," he told them. He then looked back at me. "We need to get you back to the castle, Peter really isn't happy at the moment."
I sighed, "I figured as much."
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