Have you? Proven yourself?

[A pause, and then a small laugh. Queens don't usually do it where she's from, either.]

My first guard, when I was very small, I think he wearied himself of being so tied to a child. I would not let him be until he taught me weaponcraft; a bow, first, something that would not have me seeing battle so close, and a sword later.

Narnia is oft at war, and I do not like to feel useless.