“Very likely he won’t,” said Peter, “but there’s always the ce. And even if he doesn’t, we shall spend the best part of the day nding heralds to and fro and all that. By then Aslan may have done something. And at least I ihe army and strehe position. I will nd the challenge. In fact I will write it at once. Have you pen and ink, Master Doctor?”
“A scholar is never without them, your Majesty,” answered Doctor elius.
“Very well, I will dictate,” said Peter. And while the Doctor spread out a part and opened his ink-horn and sharpened his peer leant back with half-clod eyes and recalled to his mind the language in which he had written such things long ago in Narnia’s golden age.
“Right,” he said at last. “And now, if you are ready, Doctor?”
Doctor elius dipped his pen and waited. Peter dictated as follows：
“Peter, by the gift of Aslan, by ele, by prescription, and by quest, High King over all Kings in Narnia, Emperor of the Lone Islands and Lord of Cair Paravel, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Lion, to Miraz, Son of Caspian the Eighth, sometime Lord Protector of Narnia and now styling himlf King of Narnia, Greeting. Have you got that?”
“Very likely he won’t,” said Peter, “but there’s always the ce. And even if he doesn’t, we shall spend the best part of the day nding heralds to and fro and all that. By then Aslan may have done something. And at least I ihe army and strehe position. I will nd the challenge. In fact I will write it at once. Have you pen and ink, Master Doctor?”
“A scholar is never without them, your Majesty,” answered Doctor elius.
“Very well, I will dictate,” said Peter. And while the Doctor spread out a part and opened his ink-horn and sharpened his peer leant back with half-clod eyes and recalled to his mind the language in which he had written such things long ago in Narnia’s golden age.
“Right,” he said at last. “And now, if you are ready, Doctor?”
Doctor elius dipped his pen and waited. Peter dictated as follows：
“Peter, by the gift of Aslan, by ele, by prescription, and by quest, High King over all Kings in Narnia, Emperor of the Lone Islands and Lord of Cair Paravel, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Lion, to Miraz, Son of Caspian the Eighth, sometime Lord Protector of Narnia and now styling himlf King of Narnia, Greeting. Have you got that?”