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Upon returning to the castle, Jadis left to the throne room and Ivory left to her bedroom. Since having left Edmund behind she couldn't stop thinking about the brown eyed boy. There was something bugging her, pushing its way through her mind as she thought about how her mother had acted with the boy. Since the day Ivory was born- or since the day Ivory could remember her mother had always told her that these humans wanted to steal their throne.
Only, it didn't really seem that way upon meeting Edmund. He didn't even seem close enough to his siblings to actually want to share a throne with them, and then there was the fact that he had trusted my mother. If he really wanted to steal her throne would he not have recognized her as the Queen of Narnia?
Thinking of all this confused Ivory even greater causing her to let out a groan as she let herself fall back on her bed. Ivory knew she could not talk to her mother of these doubts, her mother would only brush her off or reprimand her. Though Ivory knew she should not, she wondered when she would see Edmund again.
There was something about the boy that was captivating, though he seemed bitter she felt as if though there was more to him than what she had witnessed earlier in the day. Thinking about the boy Ivory couldn't help but begin to cry, she had lead him to his death and there was nothing she could do. This was her life, this is what her mother had raised her to do and there was nothing that would distract her from her destiny.
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It had been days and Ivory began to wonder if she would ever really see Edmund again. Had he decided he would not come back to Narnia? Or, had he discovered who my mother and I really where and decided not to come to us at all but to do what he had to do. His younger sister had already been to Narnia and Ivory was sure that the young girl had already decided that she would steal our thrones.
It had been days and still, Ivory could not forget about the black haired, brown eyed boy. Every chance he got the boy would appear in her mind, whether she wanted him to or not. She had found that unlike her mother had said she would, Ivory was really missing the boy.
Yet, in fear of the fact that the boy was in danger, she hoped that he would not come like Jadis had asked him to. It was terrible enough seeing the poor fawn all cold and hurt in the dungeon. Mr. Tumnus he called himself, he had been the fawn that had helped Edmunds younger sister. They had managed to imprison him before he could run to far, and Jadis had decided to keep him prisoner until the arrival of Edmund, his siblings, and Aslan's daughter.
Jadis had decided that she would turn them all to stone on the same day. In front of all the Narnia's to show them who the true ruler was. Seeing the poor fawn had broken Ivory's heart and for that very reason she would go and visit him every now in then with fresh bread and a warm drink. At first the fawn had not trusted the girl but after a couple of visits he had been very thankful for her.
Mr. Tumnus began to wonder how it was possible that this girl was the daughter of the wicked White Witch. "You are very kind." Mr. Tumnus said to Ivory once his voice shaking from how cold it was. Ivory felt her throat tighten as she removed her coat and placed it on the fawn.
"I am not." Ivory answered sadly feeling terrible for everything she had done. "I'm a very bad person, I've done very terrible things and there are more terrible things I will do." Ivory said watching as the fawn drank his hot chocolate and ate his bread.
"That is not true, when the day comes you will make the right decision, the true you will come to light and you will see yourself as I see you." Mr. Tumnus said to the girl, those words had stuck with Ivory as she left to her room. Were his words true?
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Ivory sat on the cold floor of the throne room beside her mother, it had been a couple of days and Edmund had not yet returned with his siblings. It was obvious to Ivory that her mother was getting tired of it, but Ivory found herself growing relieved at the fact that she wouldn't have to do such evil things to those kids. Ivory's relief did not last long though.
Letting out a sigh Ivory stood from her spot on the ground and walked out of the throne room. She walked into the room of statues where she was met with the statues of every creature that had been turned by Ivory and her mother.
The castle door opened and Ivory heard steps causing her to look up, her heart dropped when she noticed Edmund walking in his arms around himself to keep warm. Ivory didn't approach him, she had wished he hadn't come to the castle, it was worse when she saw that he was all alone. Ivory watched as he looked around at the statues of the creatures, she knew that Edmund had no idea of the fact that they were all once living.
Ivory watched as Edmund came to a stop after having stepped on some burnt out wood in front of a mountain lion. He looked at it for a while before reaching down the ground and picking up one of the charcoaled woods. Edmund then removed some of the snow covering the statue and proceeded to draw a pair of glasses and a mustache on the creatures face.
Edmund then smiled at his work and dropped the wood before he began to walk again. He stepped over another creature he believed to be a statue only for it to rise letting out a bark as Edmund fell on his back. Ivory let out a gasp knowing it would be best if she showed herself before the wolf tried anything.
"Be still, stranger, or you'll never move again." The wolf said jumping on Edmund holding him down with a paw on his chest.
"Don't kill him." Ivory called out and the wolf quickly moved away from Edmund taking a bow before the young girl. Ivory rolled her eyes and hitched up her big blue dress so that she could walk better in the snow. She moved closer to Edmund and removed her coat as Edmund stood up. "Mother will want to see him." Ivory said handing Edmund the coat so that he could warm up.
Edmund wondered if she would get cold but it didn't seem so as she gave him an encouraging smile to put it on. Edmund nodded his head and wrapped the coat around himself. "Come now," Ivory then said. "follow me."
