What Big Sisters Are For

By To Tuckborough I Go

Disclaimer: Narnia and the associated characters/places do not belong to me.

Rating: K

Summary: Edmund walks in Owlwood when something happens…

Three months had flown by and yet Edmund could still hardly believe what had happened. A king he was now, though he thought he didn't look the part so much as Peter did, but he felt more and more kingly as the days passed. He grinned crookedly at the ground as he walked through the forest.

There was a sudden rustle and an elderly woman stepped onto the forest path. She quite startled Edmund and he stepped back quickly.

"Dear, sweet King. Grant a poor, old woman the pleasure of bowing before his Majesty." She scuttled nearer and he again stepped back, but fell over a twisted old tree root. The woman advanced with more speed, a dark fire sparked in her squinting eyes. The hag (for that is what she was) twisted her mouth into a sneer as she came still closer, now revealing a bent knife from the folds of her dirty shawl.

"Let me bow to the King!" she cackled as she held the knife aloft. Then, with a shriek that could send a mountain crumbling, she crumpled to the ground, an arrow in her back.

Edmund, still stunned as it has all happened so fast, looked to the archer who had saved him. It was Susan.

She lowered her bow and gave him a half-smile.

"You just can't stay out of trouble, can you?" They shared a laugh and started back to the castle.

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