Chapter 7
"Oh! That insolent, disrespectful, impertinent, loony, lowdown of a ding-a-ling! Too many adjectives yet not enough to describe that—that human!" Lucy exclaimed angrily, speaking of Shanty. She was helping me clean the blood off my shoulder using snow.
Ding-a-ling? What? Huh? I wanted to ask, Surprised at her string of words. It was so unlike her to get so furious. Ding-a-ling must be a word from her world. I could have laughed at her calling Shanty a human like she was not one herself.
I flinched at the cold snow. It made me sick looking at the red tinted snow. At least my wound was gone.
"Sorry," Lucy apologized to me.
"It's alright," I laughed, "Ah!" I shuddered against the freezing snow she smeared on me.
"Eh, sorry again, Tumnus," Lucy bit her lip, glancing down at her blood stained dress, thoughtfully. She bent down, scooping up some snow to wash the front of her dress.
"I don't think I would do that if I were you. It's too cold, it will never dry all the way," I told her.
She let the snow fall out of her hands and pulled her cloak over her shoulders more, "That's just like me to bring only the dress I am wearing," Lucy laughed at herself.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw the mare drifting away from us. I got up and grabbed the horse's reins quickly as it tried to bolt away to escape.
"We'll have to keep our eyes open for this one," I retrieved the reins to Lucy, "Next thing we'll know is that horse will take off with our packs with it."
"Wouldn't want that to happen," Lucy smiled, taking the reins from me, "Where are we going now?" She asked, turning serious.
"As for south as far as we can before we get tired," I answered, helping her mount.
Then we were off again.
It was beginning to near daylight.
Lucy's head bobbed in sleep. She had long since fallen asleep on the horse. I had let her sleep and lead her horse onward.
Getting weary I saw a cave ahead and led them toward it. It was large enough that the horse could stay in it too.
Lucy was slowly waking up as we entered it. I ground tied the mare and untied Lucy's bedroll.
I took it to the side of the cave and spread it out.
I could hear Lucy's teeth chatter from 10 feet away. I went back to her and lifted her off the horse and carried her to the pallet.
She was so cold it scared me. She had a blue tint to her skin.
Lucy snuggled closer against my warm skin, shivering. As I laid her down she made a strange noise in the back of her throat, grabbing onto my scarf in her sleep, not wanting me to lay her down.
Finally she let go and I laid her down, covering her up, regretfully. I wished I could have just kept holding her. I knew she was not going to be warm under the cold blanket. She would only be warm from body heat. But I had to get a fire going and block the cave opening so the heat would stay in the cave.
I went and untied the two packs and my bedroll and laid them by Lucy. I then stripped the mare of her bridle and saddle.
Finally I dug into my pack to get my flint to start a fire. Luckily the caves structure would keep smoke from showing up outside the cave in case anybody was trying to find us. I gathered wood and moss outside the cave then made the fire.
I was just about to close up the opening when I remembered the horse did not have any thing to eat.
Lucy stirred.
"Come, now girl. Let's get something to eat," I lead her out the cave. Horses in Narnia had learned to tolerate tree bark much like deer when there was a grass shortage.
I stopped and pulled some logs and brush to cover up the cave opening.
(Author's Note: 'Okay this is where Lucy has a dream about the future and it explains what Zadis meant when she said "Spare the faun and spare the girl. I have something better planned for her death and maybe well as his." Even though neither Tumnus nor Lucy knows it will happen yet.')
Interlude (in Lucy's point of view):
Dream of the future:
I watched myself back away in horror. I was in some place with walls all around me and Zadis and Shanty were there.
"No, please! Don't do this please! I—I thought you loved me; I thought you were my friend. Why are you doing this?" I cried out, backing till my back was to a wall. I put my arms up to shield myself.
I then heard my attacker's voice, "I'm sorry, I am so sorry! She's making me do it. I have no choice. I'm fighting it all I can but I am getting weak, Lucy. I cannot hold out much longer," a familiar voice sobbed in hysteria.
My heart stopped. It was Tumnus, holding Peter's sword about to take my life!
"Oh, Tumnus!" I sobbed, shaking in fear.
The only person I ever truly trusted or loved was about to murder me.
"Kill her!" Zadis ordered Tumnus.
Shanty snickered as Tumnus backed away from me.
"No! No! I cannot do this to her. I love her. She's my best friend and—and the only one I'll ever love," Tumnus sobbed, looking into my eyes. I could see it hurt him to no end to see me terrified of him.
"Aw, is not that sweet, Shanty," Zadis smooched, mockingly to Shanty who stood beside her.
"Yes my love," Shanty smirked.
"Do it now! I don't have all day!" Zadis pointed her wand at Tumnus.
"No!" he screamed at her, seeing me lean against the wall, awaiting my death sentence.
"As you wish," Zadis' wand struck him.
"No," I whispered in horror as he bent over in pain, hands shaking violently as he clutched the sword. He groaned trying to strain from killing me.
"You will kill her now," Zadis smiled.
He was straining so hard and I saw him going very weak. To resist was killing him; he would die soon if he did not give in quickly. He rather die than take my life, I knew.
"Tumnus, please, just get it over with. I will die by you or them and I rather you be the one to do the job. At least you will get it over with quickly instead of torturing me to no end," Tears streamed down my face.
Tumnus looked up and gazed into my eyes. His face pale and his expression blank. He was so close to death. "I love you, Lucy. Always know that," He closed his tired eyes.
"Mr. Tumnus! Do it now! That is an order from your Queen!" I choked, bracing myself for the agony that was about to rip through me.
With tears in his eyes, he raised the sword, aiming to pierce my heart.
This would be over quickly. I smiled.
He plunged it into my heart.
I did not scream only groaned. I fell to the ground at his hoofs. My eyes closed and I slipped away from earth.
I watched as Tumnus dropped the sword.
"No," Tumnus croaked, so weak as he looked down at his hoofs at my dead body. Weak and tired his body gave out either from grief or Zadis, he fell down beside me, going still. I knew he was dead.
End of dream.
"This is what the future holds but be brave it will not happen exactly like this if you do not panic," Aslan's voice sliced through the air.
I woke up, screaming.
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