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I have to remember to breathe. Remember to take those deep breaths now. They'll come. I know they will. It hurts, god hurts so much!
"Ed!" I know the voice but it sounds so far away. Suddenly I'm lifted up, but only halfway. Into a pair of strong arms and I can feel his body shaking. Peter. I can hear soft sobs. Lucy and Susan.
"Is he going to be ok?" A voice now I know as Caspian. But there is another voice also. I don't recall hearing it before.
"Daddy! Is he going to be ok? Daddy tell me!" They sound young…so young. Too young to see death. A ghastly taste enters my mouth and I swallow instinctively. Suddenly the hurt disappears and I can breathe again. His body is still shaking as he grabs me and hugs me. Peter has tears in his eyes when I open mine and look at him.
"Daddy! He's ok! He's ok!" The small voice shouts and I see Caspian holding the hand of a small girl. Her long caramel curls shining as she dances around her father's feet.
"Elliven." He explains, "She shot the arrow." He says, referring to the arrow that had somehow imbedded itself in my stomach. Elliven, stops dancing and drops to her knees beside me.
"I'm sorry." She says; she has to be only two maybe three years younger than Lucy.
"It's ok. I'm all right now. You didn't mean it did you?" She shakes her head, "It's ok. Elliven was it? I'm all right now." I say, she wraps her arms around my neck and hugs me. I return it. Holding her around the waist. I kiss her head softly my only interaction with a child other than Lucy and I love it. She pulls away and stands up again. She brushes the grass stains on her breeches and dashes back Caspian and he picks her up in his strong arms. I slowly get to my feet helped by Peter and Susan. I'm all right now. I'm fine.
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