𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄, 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 ✯ 𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ✓

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄: 𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐘

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'Run, Lucy!' Susan yells at me. 'Run and don't look back!'

I nod and clench the sword Edmund has given me even tighter in my hand.

'Find one of the boys! And stay at their side! I'll find you!' she yells as I run from her side. I look at her, before the trees shield her from my sight.

I stumble through the woods, but a sound causes me to freeze instantly.

'Susan!' The sound of her name gives me goosebumps as I recognise the voice that belongs to it. Caspian.

He's coming for her! She will be safe! She has to be!

I hear the flying of arrows and the stab of a sword, it rings to the forest as an unmistakable sound and then nothing.

I tremble, forcing myself to breath and to catch my breath. I want to move again, back towards my brothers, my army. The fight.

But then again I hear Caspian crying out. 'No, no! No!' he shouts.

Again goosebumps appear all over my body and a fear I never felt before washes over me. I turn around and make my way back, stumbling over my own feet in my haste to reach them as fast as I can.

Although Susan ordered me to find Peter and Edmund, I want to know what happened. But I know it already in my heart; as I walk back to where I left Susan, Caspian's sobs grow louder; a heart wrenching sound like I have never heard before.

My heart stops beating at the moment I see her lifeless body. He cradles her close, touching her forehead with his. He cries out her name and rocks back and forth with Susan in his arms.

I step back, letting my tears fall. A twig breaks under my boots and the leaves crisps. Caspian's head flies up, his grief-stricken-face meets mine.

'Lucy.' My name is a whisper on his lips.

I order my feet to move and I rush towards him, falling down on my knees.

'My cordial,' I say quietly as I take the bottle from my belt. 'I can always try,' I say but my voice falters, knowing it is too late for my healing potion.

Caspian nods and kisses Susan's nose. He wipes some hair out of her face.

I look at the wound, her lower abdomen was pierced through. I don't have to see it, but I know it is pierced from the front to her back. But Aslan provides and I let just a drop of my cordial fall into her slightly open mouth. Her lips are already white and her glassy eyes stare into the endless void. I fear there isn't a spark of life left in her, but Aslan had once told me hope can move mountains.

I look at Caspian as we both hold our breath. But nothing happens, no air comes back in her lunges. No heart that begins to beat again.

She stays still, becoming whiter within minutes.

'Aslan has another plan for her,' are the words that come out of my mouth to reassure Caspian. But my heart cries out. How? How, Aslan, is this right? Why did she have to die? But there is no answer.

'Lucy,' Caspian's heavy voice penetrates my foggy mind. 'Go back and tell your brothers the-,' his voice cracks for a moment, 'news. I come soon after.'

I nod. 'Yes'

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'Edmund!' I cry out his name as I reach the end of the forest. My eye-sight is troubled by the tears I haven't cried yet. I blink them away, letting them fall down my cheeks.