A nightmare too great
In my dream, we were in a battle. It was the one where Peter was in a duel with Miraz. Peter cried out. Miraz had stabbed him in the heart.
"No! Peter! No, no!" I screamed. I kicked and thrashed at the sheets as I sobbed. Then, he was there.
"Lucy, what's the matter?" he asked softly as he pulled me into his lap.
"We were in Narnia, and you were dueling Miraz, and Susan was dead, and then he- oh, it was so horrible!" I sobbed, burying my face under the sheet.
"I should never have told you about that! Now you're having nightmares again," he said as he rocked me back and forth, as if I was 4 years old again, not almost 12. There was a long silence between us. "I remember when you were little. You would always run to me when you were scared," He said with a soft chuckle. "Especially of storms," I added.
"And you told me that the bombs were just a firework show," I said with a small smile. He laughed again, then hugged me tighter, as if he would never let go. Soon, while I was still half asleep, he got up. "Don't go!" I sobbed, running to him. A flash of lightning lit up the night sky.
"No, Lucy. Peter won't leave you. Not ever," Peter said, picking me up. He took me back to my bed, sat down, and started to hum. It was the Narnian lullaby that Mr. Tumnus had played for me on his wooden flute.
"I was thinking… do you ever think- do you think that Ed ever wanted to die?" I asked. I held onto Maggie, the little stuffed dog Edmund had given me so long ago. "I don't know, Lu. But I'll bet you that he's watching us, right now. He's probably thinking why he did what he did," Peter said sadly. Then, we both started to cry. Maybe we lost Edmund, Susan, Dad, and Mum, but we were together. And we were safe.
"And the things that began to happen were so beautiful and great that I cannot write them. And this is the end of all the stories and adventures of Narnia. Those were only the cover and the title page, for a new story has begun, one that no one has ever read, in which each chapter is better than the last"
- C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Last Battle
The end