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chapter one : the pevensies
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RAENA NOTCHED AN ARROW IN HER CROSSBOW, moving quietly and swiftly among the dark cover of the trees. The night was always the best time to hunt; it allowed her to blend into the shadows and hide much easier than in the day. With the Telmarines overtaking Narnia, the land outside the castle had become far more dangerous, filled with roaming soldiers and wild animals, which was why she never ventured very far from the ruins of Cair Paravel. It may have been the place of her birth, but if she were to return to Telmar or be caught, especially without having completed her task, she'd surely be thrown in a prison cell to rot or sold to slave traders across the ocean.
Raena's stomach grumbled with hunger. She'd been days without food-or had it been weeks? She lost count of the days out there. They were all the same anyway. Hunt, survive, hide. Like a broken record that wouldn't stop repeating.
A brown rabbit hopping around the leaves passed her sight and she stopped to hide behind a bush. She focused her sight in, softening her breathing as she aimed her crossbow towards it. It couldn't have been a Narnian. It wouldn't be by itself this far away from the Shuddering Wood.
It paused, sniffing the ground and Raena took her shot without hesitation. If she stopped to think too much about it, she might've ended up seeing a ghost. Then the rabbit would have gotten away and she would go without food for another day. It had happened several times before. The arrow whizzed through the air towards the unsuspecting hare and pierced its side, making it fall to the forest floor, dead.
Raena pulled her arrow out and cleaned it off in the dirt before slipping it back into the sheath on her back. As she picked up the dead rabbit to put in her satchel, something white flashed across her vision from across the wood. Alarmed, her head snapped up. She shoved the rabbit away, quick to notch another arrow in her crossbow as she searched for the source.
As it turned out, the source was a large white stag, staring at her with its beady black eyes. There was something unusual about the stag, other than it's peculiar color and perhaps magical aura, but Raena couldn't quite place what it was. It's innocent appearance made her want to approach the creature with a gentle hand, rather than her crossbow.
Suddenly, a black tipped arrow flew by her, missing her head by a few mere inches as it grazed the side of her ear. Her attention caught a group of Telmarine soldiers, who ran through the woods straight towards her. She cursed under her breath, looking back up to where she'd seen the stag, but either it had been scared off by the guards or she'd imagined it. Regardless, it was gone now.
Raena collected her crossbow and took off in a sprint through the forest, trying to make it back to Cair Paravel, where she hoped she'd be concealed within the ruins.
"After her!" one of the soldiers shouted.
Raena thought it strange for soldiers to be patrolling this far away from Telmar, especially at this time of night. Miraz wouldn't send so many men just to look for her after all these years. No, they had to be looking for someone else.
