Aslan put his hand over Arion's shoulder and said in a voice loud enough to reach everyone standing in the backyard, "To all the good men, women, and children gathered here, let me first convey to you all how saddened I am for the tragedy that you all had to undergo because of those filthy Dreadlings. My condolences to the ones who lost their loved ones and the ones who died bravely on the battlefield trying to protect us."
"We have been fighting a never-ending war against the Dreadlings for longer than millennia...a war which our forefathers had entrusted their descendants till our time to end this war once and for all.