Old and New ~ Edmund X Fem OC Reader

Chapter 6

Your POV

As soon as me and Cas reached the hallway where the Kings and Queens were, his arm left me. However, I didn't mind because I was too busy looking at the pictures and engravings on the wall. I walk over to one picture that caught my eye. It was the Queens riding Aslan. I reach up and stroke my fingers on the the pictures of Aslan. I see Ed go over to a picture of him and his siblings by their thrones.

"It us." Susan says.

"What is this place?" Lucy inquires to Cas.

"You don't know?" He responds.

"Well of course they don't, they haven't been here in forever." I laugh at him. He roles his eyes at me with a smile and grabs a torch off the wall. As we all start to walk off, I see Lucy stop at something. I go to her and look at what she's touching on the wall. It's a picture of a faun with an umbrella near a lamp.

I place my hand on her shoulder and she looks to me. She gives me a weak smile and I wrap my arm around her knowing she needs some comfort. We both start walking in the direction the others went in.

We join the others in walking down a long, dark tunnel. We reach some type of opening but it's still dark so I don't know what to call it. Cas walks over to the sides and lights something with his torch. The fire starts to spread around the room, lighting it up.

Engravings of Narnian warriors and leaders line the walls, in the center, an engraving of King of Kings himself, Aslan... but what was more attention getting was the structure in the middle of the room...

I've only heard stories about this... the stone table and the arch that Aslan appeared under when he came back from being killed. I marvel at the structures before me.

Lucy approaches the stone table and her siblings follow. She touches the table and then turns back to us.

"He must know what he's doing." Lucy says. I smile to her and then look to the engraving of Aslan once more. However, I am brought out of my trance when Peter speaks up.

"I think it's up to us now." He has pain in his voice.

"I know that waiting for him is best but we also need to make most of all the time we have." I speak up. Lucy looks to me understandingly and then somehow, all of us were looking at the engraving of Aslan once again.

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Peter called an emergency meeting after being told that the Telmarines were spying on us.

"It's only a matter of time. Miraz's men and war machines are on their way." Peter starts.

"That means that those same men aren't protecting his castle..." I add with realization.

"Exactly." Peter looks to me and nods, a small determined smile making a way onto his face. Just then, Ed came and stood by me.

"What do you propose we do, Your Majesty?" Reep asks.

"We need to start--""We must get--" Both Peter and Caspian stated to speak at the same time.

"Oh boy..." Both Ed and I whispered at the same time.

Peter gives my brother a glare, making him back down.

"Our only hope is to strike them before they strike us." Peter starts but Cas interrupts.

"That's crazy! No one has ever taken that castle!" Caspian argues.

"There's always a first time." Peter retorts.

"We'll have the element of surprise." I add. Cas looks to me shocked.