Quick as lightning, Rishda Tarkaan leaped back out of each of the King’s sword. He was no coward, and would ave fought single.handed against Tirian and the Dwarf need be. But he could not take on the Eagle and the nicorn as well. He knew how Eagles can fly into your face nd peck at your eyes and blind you with their wings. And e had heard from his father (who had met Narnians in attle) that no man, except with arrows, or a long spear, can atch a Unicorn, for it rears on its hind legs as it falls upon ou and then you have its hoofs and its horn and its teeth o deal with all at once. So he rushed into the crowd andood calling out:
“To me, to me, warriors of the Tisroc, may.he.live.forever. o me, all loyal Narnians, lest the wrath of Tashlan fall upon ou!”