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She feels fine for the first few hours after reuniting with the Narnians. They ask her about what happened in the desert, but she doesn't know how to explain-- doesn't feel it's something they need to know, really. This is something between her and Aslan and the Deep Magic. So she tells them that she had lost her way in the storm, had made her way back to them through Aslan's grace. It's not entirely a lie.

She's doing so well, she doesn't think there are going to be any averse effects. But then they cross more properly into Narnia, and suddenly there is heat everywhere. She doesn't hear the Narnians' outcry as she comes close to falling from her horse-- but Nazareen is one of hers, being of the desert, and she doesn't let the Queen fall even as Susan slips into unconsciousness.

Doesn't  hear her brother coming upon the party of Narnians, demanding to know what happened and not getting a very satisfactory answer.

All the High King will get is the knowledge that the magic no longer seems to be emanating from the Calormen desert, that they had lost one of their guides in the mysterious dust storm, and that the Queen had briefly gone missing only rejoin with the convoy later, perhaps a touch sun-dazed but largely hale.

At least, so they had thought before she'd fainted.