Miraz had not, admittedly, put his best men onto tracking his nephew. Given Caspian's youth, and the fact that he was on foot, what was the point? He had put the closest man on it. Now, though, it was almost a week since Caspian had disappeared, and no progress had been made.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty! I really worked so hard on this. But my wife has been kidnapped by Old Narnians, so of course my work has been delayed. But now I will be focusing full time on the prince! I'm sure the delay hasn't made any real difference..."