Seraphina | Edmund Pevenise

Chapter 2

The next two days, Mr. Tumnus and I spent awake. Tumnus would have nightmares every time he tried to fall asleep, whimpering and sometimes even screaming. I felt so bad for the faun that I offered to stay up with him, it's not much but at least he knows that he's not alone in this.

"Tumnus," I asked.

He hummed in response, "Yes Princess?"

"What was she like? Lucy Pevensie."

He looked far off to the side of the cell with a faint smirk, "She was my first friend that I made in a while. The moment she told me that she was a human, I knew I had to get her out of the open. Seraphina, she had this optimism in her eyes that glimmered so brightly. Happy that she found a new world, filled with mystery, magic, and wonder. She was completely blinded by Narnia's winter beauty that she was oblivious to the fact that we are all living in hell. I haven't seen eyes like that, holding so much joy, in a century, since Aslan left us. Lucy... she will be a wonderful Queen to us."

I smiled at the thought of the little girl, "She sounds lov-"

The sounds of footsteps cut me off. The dungeon door opened, revealing a boy. My breath was taken away from me as my eyes widened at the sight before me.

The boy looked down at me, eyes catching each others and my heart suddenly fluttering as I felt butterflies in my stomach floating around.

The dwarf shifted around the boy, pointing a blade at his throat as he opened my cell door. Pushing the boy to the other corner of me, he chained him up by his ankles.

"What a King you turned out to be boy," the dwarf chuckled maliciously as he threw a pan of food at him, before leaving the dungeon.

Quietly, the boy picked up the loaf of bread, taking a generous bite. He grimaced at the taste as he began coughing, and tried to take a sip of whatever drink they gave him.

"Frozen," I asked as I turned my head slightly at him.

He nodded without saying a word to me and threw the mug back down on the pan.

"If," Tumnus began speaking as his teeth chattered, "If you're not going to eat that..."

The boy must of known what Tumnus was insinuating because he got up with the bread in hand and moved to the hole in the cell wall I leaned against.

"I'd get up, but... But my legs," Tumnus winced in pain at his slight movement towards the small opening of between our cells.

The boy stood in front of me as he offered the bread to the poor faun. I glanced at the side profile of the boy, noticing the patterns of his freckles, how they added more to already his handsome face.

The boy peered down at the shackles that laid upon Tumnus hooves and peered over to me, only to have his frown grew bigger as he too saw the shackles I had.

"Mr. Tumnus," the boy spoke softly, unsure if he was right about the person's name who sat across from us.

Tumnus ate the piece of bread, the only food he's had for the past three days, "What's left of him." The faun slowly stopped eating, looking closer at the boy, "You're Lucy Pevensie's brother."

The boy glanced quickly at the faun before peering down at the ice floor, "I'm Edmund."

"Is she safe?"

The sounds of the huskies barks through the ice floor scared Edmund, but I noticed a slight look of guilt from him. Edmund shrugged his shoulders as he looked at the faun, "I don't know."

I gasped. "They're here already," I mumbled to myself. "I'm Princess Seraphina of the Merfolk," he turned to look back at me as I tried to make the boy feel a bit more comfortable here.