"Even now I know only some of the tale," Caspian tells him. "And then, I knew nothing. Rilian was close with my old friend Drinian, and Drinian came to me to say he'd ridden with Rilian to the place where my wife had died, and there observed Rilian greeting a woman of impossible beauty, wrapped in a garment of green. He said Rilian stared at her like a man out of his wits. That day, he and Rilian returned together to Cair Paravel, and the next, Rilian vanished."

He shakes his head. "That was all I knew for ten long years. We of course suspected some foul enchantment, and that the lady in green was one and the same with the serpent, but nothing could ever be found. At length, I resolved to sail east once more, to ask Aslan who ought to be king after me, but a vision on the way had me turn about and return. And there I saw Rilian for the first time in years. Seeing his face in that moment is the last memory I have from my mortal body."