"Peter?"
Peter looked to his side at his youngest and only remaining sister and instinctively reached his arm out to her in comfort at her strangely troubled eyes, "What is it Lu?"
Lucy looked into the kind eyes of her brother, eyes that had aged with him through the years but had yet kept their young luster from his earlier days of adventure, "Do you ever wonder why it was only Susan that forgot?"
Peter felt a weight upon his heart, a weight he always felt when he thought of his eldest sister, "Sometimes Lu, usually I try not to think too long on it."
Lucy nodded and looked away before pulling away from her brother with a grin, quickly making herself move past the sorrowful thoughts of Susan, "Would the High King Peter accept my challenge of a race to the garden?"
Peter grinned happily, also forcing the thought away, "As I've told you many times before Queen Lucy, I would never not accept any challenge you throw me."
And with that he took off like a shot, unfairly leaving Lucy in his wake to catch up. Despite their growing years, their limbs never grew weary and their hearts never grew older than they had to. They were still like that of children, free to run and play as they wished throughout the day when their duties did not insist otherwise.
Lucy, unlike Peter, was not often pressed with matters of defense and finance and was needed more by the people of their kingdom to be around and so was often wandering about the kingdom or the gardens wherever she was needed so he knew the secret trails far better than Peter ever would and so, with her late start, quickly overtook her brother in their race to the garden.
What she saw, however in that garden stopped her in her tracks with wonder and disbelief, but most of all, excitement.
Peter came barreling into the same trail as Lucy and quite nearly crashed into her when he saw that she had stopped, "Lu?"
Lucy looked up at Peter with tear filled eyes before turning again to stare into the orchard they had made themselves and pointing to the center, "Look."
Peter turned his gaze to the tree line, confused and curious and then all at once excited as he saw the great lion standing within the trees and staring back, "Aslan!"
Aslan seemed to give a slight nod before turning and jumping further into the garden before them.
With a glance at one another, the two quickly burst into movement once again, following the running lion as well as they could. At last they stopped in a little clearing with a stream nearby and the lion nowhere to be found.
Edmund stood facing them, looking just as confused, breathless, and excited as they, "You saw him? Aslan?"
Peter clasped his brother's arm in greeting and nodded happily, "We ran after him as we though he had meant us to and found you here. Aslan would not have made us think as such if he had not had something he wished for us to see."
Edmund nodded in agreement and then, as a strange feeling began to overwhelm them, they turned first to find Lucy, gaping at something at the bridge over the stream, and then, as they turned to see what, a figure wrapped in a baby blue cloak in that of the Narnian style who was facing away from them.
Lucy took a hesitant step toward the figure, reaching out a hand as if to touch them and then turned briefly to her brothers, "I've the queerest feeling that the figure on the bridge is a figure I have met before, nearly as if in another life."
Peter stepped forward to stand by Lucy, "You're right Lu, I feel as if a dream I had once before has come true and I can't remember how it ended or even how it began but I also have the queerest feeling that this figure meant something quite dear to my heart."
Edmund took Lucy's hand in his and gave it a gentle squeeze, "We cannot have all had the same dream unless, by some trick of Aslan's we have, in fact met this figure before. But with that thought I cannot think of any other he'd wish us to meet that he'd gather us all together as such besides one."
The other two looked to Edmund in amazed confusions before at last, realization dawned on them, "SUSAN!"
