At the crack of dawn the group set off once again to continue their journey, Ulysses believed that they would arrive at Aslan's camp by nightfall if they were lucky considering they had yet to encounter the white witch or any of her minions. But Issa knew that it wasn't luck, if Jadis wanted to find then she would have found them already. She could recall that even before the white witch had invaded narnia that she had spies all throughout narnia, Issa figured that the only reason that they hadn't been target was that the witch was dealing with other matters. A few hours into their journey they were forced to stop as Hasfur's hoof was caught in a trap carefully hidden in the snow and once the trap was taken off his foot was bleeding quite severely.

"Leave me and go ahead." Hasfur said as he sat in the snow and the blood from his wound started to stain the crisp white snow.

Ulysses shook his head at the idea of leaving one of his men alone out in the open. "We never leave a man or faun behind."

"Forget about me we must get the princess to Aslan, I am just a mere fawn who is replaceable. But we cannot risk anything happening to the princess if you stand around here in the open."

Issa quietly dismounted Samson and made her way over to Hasfur and bent down in the snow and placed her hand over Hasfur's hoof and a soft golden light emitted from her hand and after a few moments Issa moved her hand away and the wound was healed. "You are not replaceable to me Hasfur and I want you to remember that from now on, we all go together or none of us go at all."

"T-that was amazing princess." Hasfur squeaked as he tested out his hoof, which showed no signs of it's previous injury.

"You can heal yourself and others?" Sarabi questioned.

"No it doesn't work like that, I can only heal the wounds of others not myself." Issa said with a smile before she glanced at the scar on her index finger, it seemed that her ability was another reminder to her that it was her duty to serve her people and take care of them.

Jessup smiled. "You are a truly wonderful person, Princess Issa."

Those weren't the words that Issa would use to describe herself but she chose not to comment and instead she made her way her back over to Samson. Until the quiet sound of bells caused her to freeze on the spot; she knew the sound of those bells anyway. Back she was a prisoner of the white witch, those bells had haunted her dreams and Issa knew that she'd never forget that sound as long as she lived. "It's her, it's the white witch…" Issa breathed.

The sounds of the bells was starting to get increasingly louder, which meant the witch was getting closer. "There's no where to go and not enough time to get the princess to safety…" Caldor said as there was clearly nowhere to hide as they were completely in the open and the witch would see there no matter where they tried to run to.

"Then we fight and hopefully, it'll give us enough time for Samson and the princess to get a head start away from the witch." Starfire said.

"I'm not leaving you!" Issa firmly stated. "Like I said, we either all go or none of us go and if your all staying then Samson and I are staying too."

Seven pairs of eyes all looked at Issa before each member of her guard bowed there head respectively before turning to the direction in which the bells were coming from and getting increasingly louder. The others all moved to stand in front of Issa and her view of the slay that was approaching was soon blocked by Ulysses. And when the sound of the bells was so loud, that it was clear enough that the slay was there, Issa watched as nothing happened and her curiosity soon got the better of her and she walked out from behind the man made shield that was protecting her and saw that it was not Jadis in the slay but rather a man in a red robe with a long white beard. "Ah, there you are Issa! For a moment I thought that I had missed you." The man said, his voice rich with joy and amusement.

"I-I'm sorry, I don't think I know who you are…" Issa wearily said although there was something oddly familiar about him.

"It's been a hundred years so I'll forgive you for not remembering me, sweet princess but it is I, Father Christmas." The man revealed. "And I have come to spread some Christmas joy."

"How is that even possible? Christmas hasn't come to Narnia in a hundred years." Hasfur questioned and Issa's ears picked up on that, she hadn't thought of Christmas at all since she had found out about the long Christmas. But she supposed that it did make sense, if the white witch wanted to keep everyone miserable throughout winter.

"The long winter is coming to an end as Aslan, the four human children and the princess are all on the move and soon to be together. The witch is beginning to lose her hold over narnia." Father Christmas revealed and the news seemed to bring Issa's companions such joy, which made Issa's heart soar as after everything that they and the rest of narnia had gone through these last hundred years they deserved some happiness. But it seemed that was not the only good news that Father Christmas had in store for them as he presented them with a bag full of food before turning to Issa. "The one gift that you truly want is the one thing I cannot give you for I have no control over life and death, dear princess but I do have something for you."

Issa nodded slowly as she knew he was referring to the fact that the one thing she could ever possibly want was her family. As royalty in a time where there was suffering and soon to be another war, she probably should want peace. But that wasn't what Issa wanted, al she wanted was her family. Father Christmas handed Issa a velvet pouch and when she opened it, she was that there was a silver hand mirror inside. "Thank you…" Issa said, not that she wasn't appreciative but she wasn't sure if a mirror was the best gift for her to get considering she had yet to age in a hundred years.

"This is no ordinary hand mirror, it is an enchanted mirror that will allow you see anything to you desire, all you have to do is ask so use it well Princess Issa." Father Christmas explained before he bid the group a fond farewell as he claimed he had a lot of work to catch up with.

Issa watched as her friends ate, choosing to pass on eating anything and instead she spent the time examining the mirror she was give. "Why don't you try it out and see how it works?" Sarabi asked.

"Show me…" Issa began before stopping, she was going to say her family but she realized that she didn't need to see their images in a mirror because she had them in her heart and besides she had another too. Sarabi, Ulysses, Jessop, Starfire, Hasfur, Samson and Caldor. Although she hadn't known them long but they had been taking care of her and protecting her, just like a family would do. Although they came from different species and looked different, they stood together untied as one and so Issa would do something for them, so she turned the mirror to them. "Show me… Aslan."

Issa couldn't see what the mirror was showing them but she heard an almighty roar and the look in her friends' eyes were worth it for her. As long as they were happy then she would try to be too and she knew seeing and meet Aslan, was going to be a huge honor for them all and giving them a small preview of the great Lion was the least she could do. Once the image had faded Issa saw something colorful sticking out from the white snow and crouching down she scrapped away some of the snow to investigate what this colorful item was and she was surprised as to what it was. "It's a flower…" she slowly said as she looked to the others.

"A flower? It cannot be, flowers or anything of that kind have not grown in narnia since the long winter began. It's impossible…" Sarabi said as she joined Issa looking at the flower.

"The white witch's power over narnia must be fading even faster, the long winter is finally ending and spring is finally returning…"