So it was as Alain had worried it might be after all, but at least she did manage to see him clearly once she woke.

Caspian is under no illusions that this day – and later, this night – will be anything but harder, but for now he nods and runs his thumb over the spot she indicates. "Cowards," he says, pushing aside any thought of how she'd believed him to be one and the same. "Evil men masquerading under a pretense at law; I know it well."