Relief at Caspian’s presence shifts to pure alarm at the sight of him armed and armored so. Susan doesn’t ken what he intends - does he mean to return with Rilian? She’d not thought such a thing were possible - mayhap if he has her rose?

She forces her words past the panicked whirl of her thoughts. “I’d well imagine it’d distress anyone who cares for ye, sai,” she says. “I beg of ye, let me call for my friend, he who helped me before. Even if he can’t do the same for he, mayhap there’s something he could suggest that yer Lady’d want to hear of.”

And Caspian would have aid, too, she thinks, more than her own self.