Jadis' Daughters

The News

Elizabeth's pov:-

As we stand in front of our tents saying goodbye we see two figures approaching from the cliff as well. When they get nearer I am a little suprised to see who they are.

"Mira? Ed?" Peter asks clearly surprised. They stop short. Clearly they didn't expect us to see them.

"What were you doing at this hour?" I ask even though I don't think I want to know.

"We can ask the same thing about you two as well." Mira answers. She doesn't want to talk about it.

What could they have been upto?

"Why don't we just get some sleep and talk about this in the morning?" Edmund suggests.

"Fine", I answer although I wasn't going to let the matter drop and neither was Peter from the looks on his face.

"What were the two of you doing?" I ask once we are inside the tent.

"It doesn't concern you. And you don't get to comment on what I choose after abandoning me fifty years ago." Mira almost screams at me but checks herself at the last minute.

"Abandon you?" I ask puzzled. "I gave you the choice of coming with me but you chose the witch over me. I should say you abandoned me."

"I hoped you would come back for me. I hoped that you would realise what she would do to me to keep me under her control. But no you were busy playing the hero while you left me to become the villain." She shouted this time tears in her eyes.

I was left speechless at this. If what she says is right then I left her to something unimaginably horrible. I don't know what to say. I am spared the need of answering as the boys enter at this moment.

Mira has turned away from the opening of the tent. "Is everything alright?" Peter asks. "We heard shouting."

"Yes everything is alright", I answer.

Edmund doesn't say anything. He just gives me a disbelieving look before walking over to Mira and putting a comforting hand on her shoulder.

Mira turns around. "How much did you two hear?" she asks.

"Nothing", Peter quickly answers, too quickly.

Both Mira and Edmund give Peter a disapproving look. I bit my lip realising they heard everything.

"I'm surprised the girls didn't wake up", Edmund says. We look to the girls' beds. Something doesn't seem right. Mira walks up and throws the covers from Lucy's bed while I throw the covers from Susan's bed.

Miranda's pov:-

I stand there surprised. "Where are they?" Peter asks behind me.

"If one of us knew where they are I have a feeling we would be with them." I tell Peter a little angrily.

At the moment a strong wind blows and a dryad flies in. Peter and Ed had already drawn their swords while a had made a fireball. Eliza was a little slow to react so before she can do anything the dryad speaks up.

"Be still my prices and princesses." The dryad says. Peter and Ed sheath their swords while I put out the fire. "I bring grave news from your sisters." She says looking at Peter and Ed."

We are all shocked to hear the news of Aslan's death. Eliza turns towards Peter and buries her face in his chest. He holds her not sure what to do.

"Jadis is going to use this to her advantage. She will attack today we can be certain of it." I say my voice breaking a little. I look over at Peter. "You need to lead the army outside."

He looks at me surprised. "But I don't know how. You or Eliza should do it."

"Neither me or Mira are queens. Mira is right. You are the High King of Narnia. Everyone outside is waiting to follow you. They have been waiting for as long as there has been winter", Eliza speaks up pulling away from Peter and wiping her tears.

"Ed and I will spread the news of Aslan's death", I say pulling Ed out of the tent with me.

"I thought you wouldn't support Pete", Ed says.

"This isn't about whether I support Peter or not. We need to put aside your differences if we want to defeat Jadis. If we can't put aside our differences we are doomed", I explain to him.

Elizabeth's pov:-

We both stay silent until Mira and Edmund are out of the tent. The moment they are outside, Peter immediately starts pacing around the tent.

"I can't do this!" He exclaims.

I take a deep breath. This will be hard to explain to him.

"Listen I know you don't know how to do this. But you have us with you. Me, Edmund even Mira."

At Mira's mention he looks at me with disbelief. "She will not support me. She hates me."

"She doesn't hate you. The only reason she appears like that is because we are close really close. She thinks that something is going on between us."

Pete let's out a sigh. "Is something going on between us?" He asks.

"I don't know and now is definitely not the time to figure it out. For now you need to lead the army waiting for you and we need to put aside our differences with our siblings."

He nods his head. "The last part will be harder than going to war." We both smile at this.

"Yes it will be." I agree.

"Aslan belived you could do it. Edmund and Mira believe you can do it. I believe you can do it." I say to encourage him.

He nods his head looking ready.

When we come out, I see Edmund and Mira standing around a map with Oreuis. They look up when we come out of the tent.

"So?" Mira asks.

I answer with a nod of my head. They look at each other and let out a small sigh.

They were not certain whether I could do it. I realise.

We go over all the plans Aslan and I had made over the years. We come up with a plan which is a mixture of a few plans.

"I will get the troops ready. You all look like you can use sleep. We have a few hours before the battle begins. Please get some sleep", Oreuis tells us.

I nod my head indicating that he should go. After he goes away Peter speaks up. "We can get rest later. We need to train first."

"I agree that we need to train but we need to sleep first. If we show up in battle like this without any sleep we will not win. So we can train later for now let us sleep", Mira says.

Peter doesn't want to get rest but knows that Mira is right. We all go into our own tents. "Mira I am sorry..." But she cuts me off.

"Don't worry about it. Forget it." She quickly says.

"No I can't forget it. You are right. I did abandon you. I left you with her even when I knew what she can do. So don't tell me to not worry about it. I am sorry."

She sighs. "I know you are. It's just hard for me to see you live here happily getting everything I wanted while I was with Jadis."

We both stay silent as we change. "Let's just sleep. We have only about two hours to get some sleep."

We both get into our beds and sleep.

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