Chapter 21

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Chapter 21

Edmund’s POV

“I’ll sacrifice myself.” she said.

My stomach dropped and it felt as if time stopped. It felt as if I wasn’t standing in the middle of a battlefield surrounded by friends and foes alike. How can she do something like this? Why is she acting so reckless? Does she not understand how much stress she’s putting on me with all her rash decisions?

I watched as she crawled on her knees her fingers slowly inching towards the Chalice as Gallath taunted her. A flicker of movement appeared on the side of my eye and I quickly spun bringing down my sword at the sudden attacker. Two more came at me and my sword glided through them easily and they fell into a heap of empty armor.

When I turned back I saw she was moving closer and I yelled out in vain to stop her. “Don’t!” I watched as she turned to me hesitation in her brown eyes.

“It’s not worth it Charlotte. Aslan wouldn’t have wanted this.” yelled Lucy from nearby me.

“How do you know?” She yelled back. “How do you know if Aslan wanted this? This whole time all I’ve been doing is causing trouble. I was nothing but a burden to you all. Can’t you see that I’m the traitor in the prophecy? I’m the one who will lead you all to your deaths. I don’t-” She paused slightly as she choked trying to hide the fact that she was holding back tears, but failed miserably. “I don’t understand why you would have sympathy for a person like me.”

“Because you‘re not evil!” Susan yelled.

“This isn’t right Charlotte!” I answered desperately.

She only shook her head at us in sadness. “I was meant for this.” She said with a sad smile and a stray tear fell from her lightly tanned cheek.

Beside me Lucy tried running to her only to get held back by Peter and Susan fumbled with her arrow and I tried to do something only to be stuck in place, unmoving. Looking up I noticed Gallath had his hand up towards us with a smirk on his scarred face. He cast a spell on us! 

I tried to yell, but no words left my lips. Dammit Charlotte. Look at the mess you got me into. This whole time I’ve been trying to protect her without making it seem like I liked her. I admit I wasn’t really attracted to her at first, but her vulnerability made me want to protect her more and her headstrong attitude to protect everyone got me annoyed since I had a strong urge to protect her, but now. Things have changed. 

I can’t let her know of my feelings. It would be terribly wrong of me. I have a feeling she my feel the same. I noticed the glances while on the way here. I noticed her dreamy looks in my direction. Why did I have to kiss her on the boat? I ruined everything! 

Yet, she looked so beautiful in the moonlight. The way her brows furrowed when she couldn’t get her stance right. She was so determined, so strong, and yet so vulnerable, but I couldn’t. Which is why I acted like an ignorant fool sometime after that. She didn’t need to know I liked her. 

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