Whisked Away

36. Invisible Enemies

Shifra's POV
When we landed on this new island we were met with very surprising landscape, for the lawn were trim and the trees all stood well apart. No broken branches were anywhere or leaves on the ground. We came presently to a sanded paths that was lined with trees on both sides. There was a house at the end. Just as I was looking at this, I noticed Lucy stop, so I waited for her.

"Go ahead Shifra," she told me, "It's just a stone in my shoe, I'll only be a moment."

"Nope," I replied, "I shall wait for you, this is an unknown place. It could be dangerous." She nodded and worked at her shoe. Down the path, opposite the house, we began to hear a great, loud thumping. It came nearer and I laid my hand on my sword hilt, but nothing could be seen. The thumping the stopped about twenty feet from us.

A voice spoke, saying, "Mates, Now's our chance."

Many others said, "Hear him. Hear him. Now's our chance, he said. Well said, Chief. You never said a truer word."

The first voice spoke again, suggesting, "Now what I say is, get down to the shore between them and their boat, and let every mother's son look to their weapons. Catch 'em when when they try to pull to sea."

The others all said, "Eh, that's the way. You never made a better plan, Chief. Keep it up, Chief. You couldn't have a better plan than that." The first voice ordered them off and their was a chorus of answers, but Lucy and I were frozen in fear. Without speaking to one another, we both got up and rushed to the house.

When we had both rushed into the courtyard of the house where everyone else was, I called out, "Caspian!" He turned to face us and in low voices we relayed to him the conversation we had overheard.

"Invisible enemies, and cutting us off from the ship. This is an ugly furrow to plough," Caspian muttered. The others were talking as I wandered away out the courtyard and back down the path. As I was walking along I looked along the beach. There did not seem to be anything there, but I knew what I had heard.

"Take her, she's good leverage," a voice whispered. Three pairs of hands grabbed hold of me and held me in the air. It was not crudely, but still it is no fun to be held above the ground with no visible means of support. When the Narnians saw me suspended in the air all held their swords high and Lucy had an arrow aimed to the right of me.

"Unhand her!" Caspian shouted, raising his sword as well.

"We want this little girl to do something for us," a voice said, presumable the Chiefs, for all the others began saying that this was just what they would have said themselves.

"Little girl!" Reep shouted, "That lady is a general and Second in Command to Aslan and the goddess of light and wind!"

"We don't know anything about goddesses or generals and the like," replied the chief with a chorus of agrees.

"Well if you want anything from me you nettle put me down or I won't do anything for you!" I retorted. I was then dropped and Caspian instantly helped me up and pulled me to his side, wrapping his arm around my waist.

"Awe," one of the voices said, "We got a couple 'ere."

Caspian's jaw clenched and he demanded, "What do you want with her?" The Chief then explained about the magician who lived and own the island and how he, when angry, had performed a spell on them to made them ugly. They had looked for a counter spell, but found nothing except a spell to make them visible. He also told us how it doesn't work if it's not a girl or the magician himself reading it.

He also explained that they were tired of it and of the magician being invisible and not knowing where he was. "So in other words," Caspian interrupted after they said their own people wouldn't go upstairs where the magic book was, "You are asking my fiancé to face a danger that you won't ask your own sisters and daughter to face!"

"That's right, that's right," all of the voices said extremely cheerfully, "You couldn't have said it better. Eh, you've had some education, you have. Anyone can see that."

"No," Caspian said.

"Cas," I retorted, "We don't really have a choice here. They will kill us all if we don't."

"But, Shifra," Edmund pleaded.

"Edmund, sending me is better than sending anyone else. Lucy could die in there, but me, I can't," I replied.

"Aslan said you would live until the end of this world," said Caspian slowly, "but he never said in what condition you would be living. Who's to say you wouldn't be held prisoner by him or...or..."

"As much as I hate to say it, Shifra's right," Lucy said. "Caspian, I don't want her to go in anymore than you do, but like she said, we don't really have a choice." At last, everyone, however begrudgingly, agreed that I should go. Caspian seemed the least happy about this, but he had come to realize that it could not be helped.

We were all invited for supper, which we agreed to and were soon sitting down at a long table and being served by the odd creatures. When at last dinner was finished and everyone had been show to a room, I was laying in bed with Caspian trying to get to sleep. I was laying it my head on his chest as we normally fell asleep, but sleep would not come to me. "Restless?" Caspian asked softly.

"Just a little," I replied, "I'm not scared, but it's just..."

"A magician," he finished for me.

"Yeah."

Caspian tilted my chin up so that I was facing him and whispered, "I will always protect you." We both leaned forward and were soon sharing air. Then Caspian closed the gap between us and I felt light headed. His lips were soft and smooth as they moved against mine. He gently bit my lip causing me to gasp as he moved his tongue into my mouth. He pulled me on top of him as he continued to explore my mouth.

Suddenly he flipped us over so that he was on top of me. My hands raked through his hair as he moved from my lips and down my jaw to my neck. I could not hold in a moan as he began to suck on it. He continued to move his lips over my throat and down to my collarbone before moving back to my lips. This kiss was more heated and so fill of passion that I could barely form a cohesive thought.

He broke away and kissed on my jaw, moving up towards my ear. There, he gently nibbled on it, causing me to gasp. He suddenly broke away and whispered, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that."

"Actually I quite enjoyed it," I replied smirking.

"I just, as king I should wait," he explained. "Just until we get married."

"Ok," I replied with a smile.

"You're not mad at me?" He asked.

"Oh course not," I replied. "Come on, let's go to sleep." We were soon settled back in and somehow, I drifted off much quicker this time.