The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

way. Well, he succeeded in kidnapping me (I don't exactly know how) and rode away
down the Winding Arrow to the coast. He'd had everything prepared and there was a ship
manned with his own followers lying ready for him and he put out to sea with me on
board. But Father got wind of it, though not quite in time, and was after him as quickly as
he could. The Lord Bar was already at sea when Father reached the coast, but not out of
sight. And Father was embarked in one of his own warships within twenty minutes.
"It must have been a wonderful chase. They were six days following Bar's galleon and
brought her to battle on the seventh. It was a great sea-fight (I heard a lot about it
yesterday evening) from ten o'clock in the morning till sunset. Our people took the ship
in the end. But I wasn't there. The Lord Bar himself had been killed in the battle. But one
of his men said that, early that morning, as soon as he saw he was certain to be
overhauled, Bar had given me to one of his knights and sent us both away in the ship's
boat. And that boat was never seen again. But of course that was the same boat that Aslan
(he seems to be at the back of all the stories) pushed ashore at the right place for
Arsheesh to pick me up. I wish I knew that knight's name, for he must have kept me alive
and starved himself to do it."
"I suppose Aslan would say that was part of someone else's story," said Aravis.
"I was forgetting that," said Cor.
"And I wonder how the prophecy will work out," said Aravis, "and what the great danger
is that you're to save Archenland from."
"Well," said Cor rather awkwardly, "they seem to think I've done it already."
Aravis clapped her hands. "Why, of course!" she said. "How stupid I am. And how
wonderful! Archenland can never be in much greater danger than it was when Rabadash
had crossed the Arrow with his two hundred horse and you hadn't yet got through with
your message. Don't you feel proud?"
"I think I feel a bit scared," said Cor.
"And you'll be living at Anvard now," said Aravis rather wistfully.
"Oh!" said Cor, "I'd nearly forgotten what I came about. Father wants you to come and
live with us. He says there's been no lady in the court (they call it the court, I don't know
why) since Mother died. Do, Aravis. You'll like Father - and Corin. They're not like me;
they've been properly brought up. You needn't be afraid that -"
"Oh stop it," said Aravis, "or we'll have a real fight. Of course I'll come."
"Now let's go and see the Horses," said Cor.