"And now you live in this strange place," Caspian says with a faint frown. "I hope it does not make you long too much for your island." He had already been missing Narnia when he arrived here. Now he doesn't know if he will ever see it again.

"A queen here?" he asks with a laugh. "I had not thought of such a thing. I confess, my advisors did hope I would find a queen on my voyage." Surely not in a place such as this, though. "I can hardly go looking for a queen before I can offer her passage to my home."