𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍, peter pevensie ✓

seven.

07

BEST DRESSED SOLDIER

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"I don't know-" Alex whined as Susan braided her hair tightly, leaving it to hang in a mixture of white curls and braids behind her head, "The dress is one thing but my hair as well? I'm a soldier, we don't wear pretty clothes."

"Well, you will be the best dressed on the battlefield when the time comes," Susan replied before stepping back to be with her sister who just stared in awe at the sight of Alexandra.

Alex also had a hint of a smile on her face as she looked down to her faded, red dress that was tightened around her abdomen by the strings that held it together on the back. The dress had thankfully loosened around her legs but not nearly as much as she wanted due to the small strides that got her hardly anywhere. But there was some sort of elegance to her appearance; her lips and cheeks were bright pink, her hair curled neatly around her face in white loops whilst many strands were braided and secured behind her and she had a smile on her face for perhaps the first time in years.

"You look gorgeous, Alex," Lucy laughed before turning to her sister, "So do you. You even look like Mum."

"Mum hasn't had a dress like this since before the war," Susan sadly smiled down to her younger sister as all three girls stared intently at the reflection in the small river.

Lucy's lips tugged upwards, "We should bring her one back! A whole trunk full!"

The happiness on Susan's face seemed to fade away at the mention of going home, "If we ever get back," the oldest girl seemed to realise the frown that spread over Lucy's face which made her motion to the older Pevensie, "I'm sorry I'm like that. We used to have fun together, didn't we?"

"Yes, before you got boring!" Lucy giggled.

"Wait, there was a time where Susan wasn't boring?" Lexi chuckled which made Susan's brow twitch playfully, a playful grin danced around on her lips before her hands cupped water from the river which landed all over the two unsuspecting girls who squealed.

The three girls spent a few seconds playing around in the water before Susan stepped away to retrieve a towel that hung loosely on a tree branch. Alex, on the other hand, continued to stare intently in the water where she could see the colour of her eyes fade from the lifeless grey to the frosted blue that would mean that the Witch or her entourage were nearby.

The blue only got more vibrant which scared Alexandra deeply before she realised why, "Susan, don't!" she called out before it was too late and the girl's hand tightened around the towel and pulled it down to reveal Maugrim, the leader of the wolf pack with his teeth bared.

Susan and Lucy jumped back with small screams whereas Alex's hand twitched behind her back to call for the trustworthy axe that Susan had begged her to leave in the tent.

"Please don't run, we're tired," the leader growled as he jumped down to reveal his second in command, Vardan, beside him, "And we'd prefer to kill you quickly."

Alex cried out in pain as yet another wolf jumped out from the tree line and pushed the girl to the grass with his large paws weighing her down. She recognised the wolf that attacked her as Ulmer.

"Susan!" Alex yelled and directed her eyes up to the tree above them and then to Lucy, the girl nodded her head before throwing the towel at Maugrim and hoisting her sister up to the tree before doing the same to herself.

The loud blowing of the horn echoed through the camp to alert them to the trouble of what was going on at the river. The most important person to hear it was Peter Pevensie who talked with Aslan as they both looked over Cair Paravel. Both of them immediately broke out into a sprint.