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When the party has died down, Isabella, for one, is well and truly exhausted. She explores the palace until she finds a room with a bed in it, and into this bed she flops, still in her clothes and holding her staff and carrying the cordial in her pocket. She sleeps late, because the party kept her up so late and she hadn't really slept the night before; but around noon, she stirs, and gets up, and goes looking for James and wherever her backpack may have got to. The backpack she finds in the great hall where the principal mass of the party was; some enterprising creature took both bags from the battlefield at Beruna up to the castle for them, and she only wishes she knew who it was. She takes her bag to her room and carries James's with her and continues looking for her friend.
"Oh my goodness," he says. "You're a centaur from Narnia with a magic pin that talks to kings! I think that's the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me!"
"Oh my goodness oh my goodness!" exclaims the winged horse, dancing excitedly in place. "Um, I live over there in those mountains! I guess the king probably can't see the mountains. But they're there, and I live in them!"
Starfall describes her current location in terms of the last time she reported in, consulting her map-in-progress.
"All right, I've found you on my magic map," James says after a moment. "And I can see the mountains on it too. How many winged horses are there in them?"
"It's definitely more winged horses than we've found anywhere else. Up until now, I wasn't sure there still were any."
"Oh. Well, there are us!" he says. "My name's Flit, I forgot to say! This is all very exciting! I should go tell everyone all about it, what should I tell them?"
"You should tell them that the White Witch has been defeated, her creatures have fled, Narnia is prospering again, and the king invites them to send an envoy to Cair Paravel to see it all in person and talk to people and learn things."
And he leaps up into the air and - flits away, with surprising speed for such a large horse.
"Do you want me to stay around here for the time being to give the envoy directions or lead them back to Cair Paravel myself, your majesty?" asks Starfall.
"Then I will," says Starfall. She proceeds to set up her camp right where she is so Flit will know where to find her.
"Exciting centaur! I forget your name, I'm sorry! I told everybody about Narnia and things and they said I should go be an envoy because I'm adventurous!"
"I'm Starfall," Starfall says. "I can lead you to Cair Paravel starting tomorrow, or I can just point you in the general direction if you'd rather fly."
"Cair Paravel is east-northeast of here and it's a big castle where the biggest river meets the sea. You can ask anyone, if you land within Narnia proper and find someone to ask."
"Okay, thank you!" And he bounds into the air and starts flying east-northeast, because he is much too excited to go to sleep just yet.
But at last he arrives, and lands near the castle, and looks around for any creatures who can tell him what to do next.
"Good morning!" she says. "Are you Flit? I am Queen Isabella."
"I am Flit! Hello! What sort of a creature are you, besides a queen? You're not at all horselike! Very few creatures are at all horselike, it turns out."
"I'm a human. Daughter of Eve," says Isabella, as the dryad ties off her braid and she pulls herself to her feet with a crystal-topped scepter. "There are a fair number of horselike creatures. There are centaurs and unicorns and apparently winged horses, in addition to non-speaking horses."
"A proper human Queen! Oh my goodness oh my goodness!" says Flit, prancing excitedly. "Is Pin - I mean, is the King human too?"