I Fell in Love with a King of Narnia (book 3)

chapter 9. family history

♔ Edmund

It's not the morning sun that wakes me up, it's Caspian.

"Ed, wake up," he says urgently shaking me from my sleep.

The tone of his voice wakes me up immediately. I open my eyes and start to sit up, "Look," he says gesturing at giant footprints that have been imprinted into the sand.

I instantly get up and wonder what they could be or more who they could belong too, but would think better if Eustace wasn't snoring so loud like a pig.

"Where's Lucy?" My mouth asks panicked before I can think because then Caspian asks what I really saw.

"Where's Charlotte?" He asks.

"Lucy!" My mind speaks for me in its scrambled state, "Lucy!" I call but I feel myself really wondering where Charlotte is.

Why do I always do this?

My heart is set on Charlotte but my mind is worried for my sister Lucy. Why can't I just accept worry about both equally? Why do I feel like I have to make a choice between them when I shouldn't?

As my mind is questioning everything, everyone is starting to wake up and I feel my heart pumping loudly. Where are they? Where is she? What I fear I can't answer the most is, which "she" am I most worried about?

"Everybody up!" Caspian orders and now everyone is definitely awake and looking much more lively than I do.

"Get up! Get up I said!" The captain orders but I'm already running and grabbing my light armor and sword a second ahead of everyone else, but a second behind Caspian.

As we run in search, all my mind keeps wondering is, are they safe?

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♟Charlotte

The sun has already risen and Lucy has still not made an appearance and I start to worry about her.

Is she safe?

Did the Oppressor take her?

Has he hurt her?

Or worse, kill her?

"Who is the Oppressor?" I ask my "guard" my worry getting the best of me.

"He is very powerful I've heard," he answers me.

I don't know what he's doing but he allowed me to at least lay down on the grass and am relaxed.

"Will he hurt Lucy?" I ask staring at the now orange and pink fluffy clouds.

"Maybe," he answers and I feel panic rise in my chest.

Suddenly, my guard picks me up and hides me behind a bush. I can't see why because he covers my eyes and holds his hand over my mouth.

I hear lots of footsteps though and feel my heart pounding in my ears.

"Caspian, Lucy's dagger," a voice I could never forget says, Edmund's.

"And Charlotte's," another voice I couldn't forget says, Caspian's.

Luckily, my guard leaves a peep hole for me and I see spears tossed at the group who came to find Lucy and me. I try to let out a scream letting them know we are here, but the guard's hand over my mouth is preventing me from doing so.

"Stop right there or perish," one of the monsters say.

I see them being attacked and see one of them hit Edmund and it reminds me of when we were in that village and the man had kicked Edmund and knocked him out.