We ran inside to see what the damage was. When we found the room with the broken window, we saw a suit of armor scattered around the floor. 'Well done, Ed!' Peter accused. 'You bowled it', Edmund complained. In the distance I heard footsteps coming our way,
'What on earth is going on up there?!'
'Macready!' I said.
'Come on', Peter yelled. We ran out of the room and up the stairs, through halls and room. But when we heard footsteps ahead of us, we all turned around, 'Back! Back! Back!' Edmund whisper-yelled. We followed Peter up another flight of stairs and down the hall but we ended up in front of yet another locked door and we could here footsteps. 'She is faster than she looks.' Peter laughed.
As we ran, we came across multiple locked passage doors until Edmund finally opened a door to... the spare room. He runs to the wardrobe and opens the door, he looks back at us, 'Come on.'
'you've got to be joking', Susan sighed. But without any further complains, we all got in the wardrobe. Pushing and pulling to reach the back, Peter and Susan fell in the snow.
'Impossible', Susan said astounished. As the both of them got up, Lucy and I stood next to each other on the open place of the forest. 'Don't worry', Lucy smiled, 'I'm sure it's just your imagination.'
'I don't suppose saying we're sorry would quite cover it?' Peter asked.
'No, it wouldn't', Lucy and i looked at each other before throwing snowballs at Peter, 'But that might', I added.
And so a snowball fight began, but Susan hits Edmund in the arm with one. 'Ow', he cried, 'stop it!' It was then that we realised...
'You little liar!' Peter yelled at Edmund.
'You didn't believe her either!' Edmund shot back.
'Apologise to Lucy', Peter ordered, but Ed just looked at her.
'Say you're sorry, Ed', I said before Peter had the chance to yell at him. 'Alright I'm sorry.'
'It's alright, some little children don't know when to stop pretending', she says, looking smugly at her big brother.
Edmund mutters something along the lines of 'Very Funny' to himself.
'Shouldn't we at least have a look around?' Edmund protested after Susan asked whether or not we should go back. 'I think Lucy must decide.' Peter said causing Lucy to smile brightly. 'I all want you to meet mr Tumnus.'
'Well than, Mr Tumnus it is.' Peter said while walking over to the wardrobe, taking out some coats.
'But we can't go hiking in the snow, dressed in these.' Susan protested.
'No', Peter agreed, 'But I'm sure the professor wouldn't mind us using these.' He started passing around the coats.
'But Peter, those don't belong to us.' I argued.
'You're right, Alexa, but if you think about it logically, we're not even taking them out of the wardrobe.'
Peter handed a coat to Edmund.
'But that's a girl's coat.'
'I know.'
That made me giggle a little. this time Peter walked up to me and wrapped the last coat around my shoulders instead of just handing it to me. For a few seconds he ran his hands up and down my arms to warm me up.
'Thanks', i said quietly and blushing. Peter smiled at me before turning back to grab a coat for himself. Lucy elbowed me, when I looked down at her, she gave me a knowing smile before walking ahead to lead the way towards mr Tumnus. As we walked, Peter ran downhill and slided the rest of the way down. I laughed but didn't notice a high rising treeroot and tripped. After rolling down for a little I ended up right next to Peter, my head and hand resting on his chest. He looked down at me smiling and eyebrows raised. I got up, hoping Peter hadn't seen my red blushing cheeks.
We both caught up with Lucy while she was telling Ed about Mr Tumnus. But then she suddenly stops, all of us notice the open door and before we know it, Lucy runs towards it. 'Lucy!' Peter yelled. following his little sister. We all ran into the house, it was completely torn apart.
'Who would do something like this?' Lucy asked shocked. I walked up to the paper pinned to the wall with a dagger. 'Alexa, what is that?' Peter asked while I took the paper.
I read:
'The Faun Tumnus is hereby charged with high treason,
against her empirial Majesty Jadis
Queen of Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands.
for comforting her enemies and fraternizing with humans
Signed Maugrim, captain of the Secret Police.
Long live the Queen.'
'All right, now we should really go.' Susan decided.
'But what about Mr Tumnus?' Lucy protested.
'If he was arrested for just being with a human', Susan said, 'I don't think there is much we can do.'
'You don't understand, don't you.' Lucy started to cry, 'I'm the human! She must have found out he helped me!'
'Maybe we could call the police?' Peter suggested.
'These are the police.' Susan reminded him.
I wrapped my arms around Lucy: 'Don't worry, Lucy, We'll think of something.'
'Why?' Edmund asked, gaining our attention, 'I mean, he's a criminal.'
'Psst!' a little voice sounded from outside.
'Did that bird just 'psst' us?'
