She Dreamed of Paradise ❈ Suspian

Everybody Wants to Rule The World

"There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world."

- Everybody Wants to Rule The World (Fears For Fears cover) by Lorde.

Time was up. The fog was due to arrive that day and Susan couldn't sit still for a moment while she watched the windows for any signs of the fog but nothing came. There were no signs of fog that day; it was clear skies and warm – the perfect day to spend outside. Only Susan refused to take a step outside, even if it was to her balcony.

She dressed in a simple light blue dress and placed a small crown of dark blue flowers in her hair, something simple but easy to move around in and run around in when the fog came – which she still didn't know the exact time it would come. All she knew what that it was today.

Walking through the halls, Susan stared blankly ahead of her, her mind completely consumed by the thought of the fog. Nothing seemed to matter, all that mattered was trying to get out of the castle and try to convince Caspian to come with her – pretty much exactly what she'd been doing ever since she had arrived all those weeks ago.

Despite her thoughts on the fog, the day seemed to fly by her and before she knew it, she was attending some gathering arranged by Caspian and was pretty much forced to go. She had changed out of her blue dress and forced into a tight fitting black dress that barely allowed her to breathe and more her arms. Something Susan loathed and had asked multiple times if she could take it off just to give her some more air and give her back her ability to move her arms, head and legs freely – a request that was denied every single time she had asked.

Drinking a small goblet of wine, Susan kept her eyes glued to the windows, simply waiting for the fog to come in. she gripped her goblet tighter and tighter until it fell out of her grip and smashed on the ground, igniting the entire court to burst into laughter. Susan's cheeks flushed as she hid her face and walked over towards Caspian, giving him a light smile. The laughter died down a few moments later; making Susan's cheeks slowly grew back to their normal rosy colour.

The castle was silent and motionless as the fog rolled in – everyone unsure of how to react. The silence was broken by a woman's scream and the sound of bare feet running across the marble floors. The heavy ballroom doors opened to reveal a blood covered and deranged Helena who ran up to Susan and Caspian, grabbing onto Susan's wrist with an iron grip. A grip so tight, Susan knew it would leave a mark for days or possibly weeks to come.

Breathless, Helena's whispers were barely audible. "Get out of the castle. Right now – it's here and it's coming," was all she could say before something grabbed her ankle, pulling her down to the floor before dragging her out of the door, the door slamming shut after her. All everyone heard were her spine-chilling screams and then they stopped almost as soon as they had started.

Susan gave Caspian a quick glance before slowly following the trail of blood Helena left behind to open the door a fraction of an inch – just to see what was out there. All she saw was a blood covered hand, part of an eye and a trail of blood. Screaming at the top of her lungs, Susan closed the door and leaned against the closed door. Aslan hadn't warned her that the fog would be this violent.

Her hands were shaking as she returned back towards Caspian; her face pale and looked as if she was about to collapse. "I warned you about this, Caspian. I knew this would happen and you didn't believe me. Do you believe me now?" She hissed as soon as she had returned to Caspian, her hands clenched into a fist.

Despite wanting to throw up and pass out at the same time, Susan needed to know if she'd proved to him that the fog was as dangerous as Aslan had predicted. All she needed to do next was defeat the monsters in the fog and try to find a way back home – even though she never wanted to return home. Narnia was her home now, and it was something she had forced inside her brain and convinced herself into thinking that England was some kind of dream. However, trying to forget a place she had lived in for her whole seventeen years in the universe was easier said than done and she still had the thoughts that England was her home and it was Narnia that was a dream and she needed to wake up from it.

But she couldn't wake up for this was not a dream – this was happening right in front of her eyes and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

Caspian could only nod; the power of speech had completely gone from him. Now he understood why Susan had been so frantic and persistent to tell him about the dangers of the fog – but he understood too late and god knows how many of his people had suffered the same fate as Helena. Almost ripped apart and eaten alive by some kind of monster; and it obviously wouldn't stop until he killed the monster or the monster killed him.

In that moment, he decided to kill the monster himself and make sure his people were safe from any kind of harm that would fall upon them.