Prince Rabadash was beginning to be impatient. He had secretly funnelled funds and supplies to Husham to take Galma and no news had arrived yet. The troops and he sent should be more than enough to take the puny island of barbarians. Soon Galma would be his and eventually Narnia itself. He longed for the day that the Narnians hailed him as Lord and Tisroc. Though he would say that he wished his father lived forever, he really wished for his father's death so that he could assume the throne. Then all this secrecy could be avoided and he could ride out against the Barbarian dogs and slay them all. His goal was to control the world before he was 30.

His father, the Tisroc, had no desire to directly attack Narnia and Archenland. But he did not oppose the idea of taking them both at once. So Rabadash had secretly signed a deal with Augoron. Calormene would take Cair Paravel by the sea from Galma while Augoron took the rest by land. Afterwards he would lead his new province into conquest against the mountains of Archenland and destroy the barbarian kingdoms once and for all. But he could not act until Galma was taken. Several suggested he take the Lone Islands first, but he knew Galma was more strategic.

So he waited. He hated waiting the news of victory had to come soon. So he passed the time by imagining his new empire. Shortly after the barbarians fell, he would seize thier islands and have the whole world at his fingertips. By Tash, he would have no one to conquer. But there would be rebellions to put down and cetainly the unexplored regions would give him something to look forward to.

But for now he waited for news from Husham.