Life is Precious
~ Prologue ~
Mrs Pevensie checked her silver watch. They were running late for a very important event.
"Susan, Lucy, Peter, Edmund? We must leave immediately!" She exclaimed.
She walked briskly towards Edmund's bedroom and knocked on the door loudly,
"Edmund! Get out of bed! We are running late!" She called from behind the closed door.
There was no reply. Mrs Pevensie was growing impatient as she waited for Edmund to answer the door. When he didn't she knocked again,
"Edmund, open this door immediately!"
Infuriated, Mrs Pevensie rolled her eyes and opened the door.
"Edmund," she said sternly as she walked over to his bed. She threw off the sky blue covers, "Edmund Pevensie, get out of bed! We're late!"
Edmund didn't stir. Mrs Pevensie rolled him on his back. His eyes were open but the pupils weren't showing. He was as cold as ice and wasn't breathing.
"Edmund?" Mrs Pevensie whispered, feeling for his pulse, "Edmund?"
A horrid thought crept into her mind. Was he alive?
Tears cascaded down her face, "Edmund Pevensie, answer me!" She started to panic, "Edmund!"
She wailed, throwing herself on the floor. Her tears made her make-up smudge and run down her face. Her dress was torn, like her heart.
"Mother?" came Peter's voice, "Mother?"
Peter looked at his mothers puffy face, "What's wrong?" He asked cautiously.
His mother took a painful, deep breath, "Edmund ... He's ... He's dead!"
