{3} The Last Protector {Voyage of The Dawn Treader}

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{Silver's POV}

Caspian and I led the way into the cabin and I pulled out of the sheath, my sword from the wall.

I saw Edmund smiling as he looked around the cabin, and Lucy walked over immediately to the weapons.

"Look. It's Susan's bow and arrows."

She said, and I smiled, and sheathed Loyalty onto my belt again, and I felt Edmund's arms around me.

"Lucy." Caspian said and he brought out both her healing cordial and her dagger, at which she smiled.

"My healing cordial... and dagger."

She said, and reached for them, but stopped quickly, just before she grabs them. "Oh. May I?"

She asked Caspian, and I smiled at her, and I looked at Edmund. "They're yours. Of course you can." Caspian said.

"Peter's sword." Edmund said, and walked over to it, and smiled. Caspian took it off of the wall.

"Yes. I looked after it as just promised. You may hold it if you wish." Caspian said, and Edmund shook his head.

"No, no, it's yours." Edmund said, and Caspian looked at him and I nodded at Caspian. "He gave it to you." Edmund pointed out, and Caspian shrugged.

"But, I did save this for you though."

He said, and pulled our Edmund's torch from the cabinet, and tossed it to him, and I smiled.

"Thanks." Edmund said, and I smiled. "I picked it up after the battle, figured you might want it when you returned, and so we kept it."

I said and he laughed and turned it on, accidentally shining it now into his own eyes.

We were now in the cabin again but I was standing next to Edmund, and we all were watching Caspian.

"Since you left, the Giants of the North surrendered unconditionally.... Then I knew we defeated the Calormen army at the Great Desert."

Caspian said, and I sighed.

"It was no fun doing a whole lot of running through the blazing desert." I mumbled and Caspian chuckled at me smiling.

"Yes, our resident wolf did not like that much at all." He said and I just snorted at him, clearly annoyed.

"There is peace all across all of Narnia. That is the most important thing as of right now."

Caspian said.

"Peace?" Edmund asked, sounding very surprised. "In just three years." I said, and sat in a chair, looking at the map.

"Have you found yourself a Queen in those three years?" Lucy asked, and I snorted. "I think we would know."

I said, and Edmund snorted at that.

"I am older. And I don't think that I want to understand." I said, quoting Edmund, from the time, just before, he left Narnia the last time.

"Oh very funny." Edmund said.

"No. Not one to compare with your sister at any rate." Caspian said, and I saw that Lucy looked disappointed.

Then I realized that she was trying to be finally like Susan for once, instead of being herself.

"Hang on."

Edmund said, and I looked at him.

"If there are no wars to fight... and no one is in trouble as of now... then why are we here?"

He asked, and I looked at him. "Maybe you summoned yourself here. You are missing this place so much."

I said, and Lucy snorted. "Or maybe someone in this place." She said, and Edmund and I looked at her.

"Shut up!"

We both said, and Edmund was now going red in the face, at the very basic instigation.

"It's a good question. I have been asking it myself, the very same thing Edmund." Caspian said.

"So where are we sailing to?"

Edmund asked.

"Before I with your help, took my throne back from my uncle. He tried to kill my father's closest friends and the very most, loyal supporters. The Seven lords of Telmar."

Caspian said. "They fled to the Lone Islands, and no one, has heard from them since then." Caspian said.

"So you think something has happened to them?" Edmund asked, and I looked at him.

"Well, if it has, it's my duty to find out." Caspian said. "Well, what's East of the Lone Islands?" Lucy asked.

"No one knows. Uncharted waters they say. Things you can barely begin to imagine. Tales of sea serpents in their waters and worse."

The Captain said, and Edmund snorted. "Sea Serpents?" He asked, raising his eyebrows.

"All right Captain, that's enough of your very tall tales." Caspian said, taking a large, bite out of an apple from in his hand. I smiled, as we all went out on deck again.

"Where sky and water meet. Where the waves grow ever sweet. Doubt not you Reepicheep. To find all that you seek. There is the Utter East. Doubt not..."

Reepicheep sang, and Lucy accidentally interrupted him, and she smiled at him.

"That's pretty." Lucy said, and Reepicheep smiled at her.

"Oh. It's just a Dryad song, sung to me quietly, when I was just a little, tiny, a young mouseling." Reepicheep said.

"I can't divine the meaning, but I have never forgotten the words." He said as Lucy looked at him.

"What do you think is past the Lone Islands, Reep?" Lucy asked, and the mouse looked up at her.

"Well, I've been told that the furthest east that one can sail is to, is the end, of the world. Aslan's country."

Reepicheep said, and Lucy smiled at him, thinking. "Do you really believe there is such a place?" She asked.

"Well, we have nothing, if not belief."

I heard Reep say, as I was on the deck below with Edmund, and now telling him the entire conversation.

"Do you think you could actually sail there?" She asked and Reep was now thinking along with her. "Well, there is only one way of finding that out."

He said, and sighed. "I only hope that one day I will earn the right to see it. I believe I will." He said, and went back to singing.

I saw the mermaids, and so did Lucy, who was waving at them in earnest.