LOVE TRAVELS FAR FROM NARNIA

Chapter 1. The Prince Escapes

In the night sky the stars Tarva, the Lord of Victory and Alambil, the Lady of Peace have come together. In the nearby castle screams of labor is heard: Lady Prunaprismia is giving birth.

"Towels." Says the midwife at the Lady's feet.

Lady Prunaprismia gives one final push resulting in a baby's cry being heard. The Lady opens her arms wanting to hold her baby: she smiles at her baby.

Somewhere else in the castle a man walks into a room where there is another man leaning against the window looking at the sky.

"Lord Miraz you have a son."

Lord Miraz gave out a sigh of relief.

"The heavens have blessed us. You know your orders... General Glozelle." Turning his head a bit.

"Yes m'lord." At this Lord Miraz turns his head back to the skies and the general walks out of the room. A figure draped in black walks in the halls. The figure opens the door that holds the prince, which is sound asleep. The figure pulls back the curtains and put his hand over the sleeping prince's mouth awakening him. Once the prince realizes who it is he calmed down.

"Five more minutes." Says the prince patting the professor's hand and turning to the side, thinking his professor has awakened him for their nightly stargazing.

"You won't be watching the stars tonight, my prince. Come. We must hurry." Pulling the prince out of bed towards the wardrobe (that seems a bit familiar)

"Professor what is going on?" The prince said rather nervous.

"Your aunt has given birth: to a son." Said the professor opening the wardrobe's door to secret door in the back (I swear this seems familiar). The prince's eyes widened at what his professor said.

"Come." The professor said when he heard noise coming from the outside the door. The prince hurried in closing the wardrobe's doors not all the way: this way he could see what was going to happen.

General Glozelle and several other guards came in holding crossbows; circling the bed. The general gave a silent signal telling his troops to start shooting at the bed. The prince's hawk started making noise once the shooting started and ended. Only once they finished shooting did they realize the bed had no one in it. General Glozelle was displeased with this. He turned his attention to the wardrobe; he reloaded his crossbow and opened the doors: nothing.

"Search the castle." He commanded his men.

The professor led the way to the armory. The prince checked behind him to see if they were being followed; all clear. The prince hurryingly gets his brigandine, sword; the professor puts a cloak on his back. Once on his horse, Destrier the professor says,

"You must make way for the woods."

"The woods."

"Yes, they will not follow you there."

"It has taken me many years to find this." He says handing him something wrapped in cloth. The prince takes it putting on his right side.

"Do not use it except at your greatest need."

"Will I ever see you again?"

"I dearly hope so my prince. There is so much more I meant to tell you. Everything you know is about to change."

"Close the drawbridge" a guard shouts out in the courtyard.

"Now go." He says patting the horse and watching as the prince hurries away with worry. As soon as the prince gets out of the stables guards shout,

"Halt! Halt!" The prince merrily takes one the guards spears and throws it into a pit of fire outside the gate. The prince hears fireworks going off and stops Destrier.

"A son! A son! Lady Prunaprismia has this night given Lord Miraz a son!" The prince notices guards rushing towards him and he urges his horse forward. The prince is being cashed after the guards in a vast open field. He enters the woods with ease; the General enters with ease too but the guards of the other hand stop a few feet away for it.

"Which of you superstitious old women wants to spend the night in a cell?" States the general looking around worryingly. At this the other guards enter the woods. The chase keeps going. The prince gets to a river, Beruna: upon entering the water Destrier starts having trouble swimming in the cold water. About halfway through the water the guards emerge from the woods. The guards how ever do not have as much luck as the prince seeing as a few guards fell off their horses and into the cold water.

The prince looked behind him to see if he was still being chased. When he turned around he had but a second before his forehead connected with a low tree branch making him fall off of Destrier. The prince's foot was still in the sturrp which meant he was being dragged on the forest floor by his horse. Groaning in frustration and hurt he finally got his foot from the sturrp; Destrier ran out of sight. After waiting a minute to catch his breath he sat up looking around. He turned his head at the sound of a door opening; frightened at the sight.

"He's seen us." One of the dwarfs said the prince turned to look at his sword, when one of the dwarfs starts advancing towards him with his smaller sword out, causing the prince to move towards his own sword. The dwarf notices something on the ground; a horn. The dwarf attention went towards the area where the sound of neighing was heard; the dwarf looked once more at the other dwarf and said,

"Take care of him." While moving towards the guards. The other dwarf advanced toward the prince and in reply the prince dived toward the horn. Causing the dwarf to yell,

"No!" To late the prince had blown the horn signaling certain people back to Narnia (or to for the first time) and Narnians that something was going to happen. Once at the prince the dwarf knocking him out with the hilt of his sword.