The Beginning
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Chapter 11: Pride Goes Before Destruction
Lecia started cooking food for Lu, Peter, and herself. When it was finished, she took their part upstairs to them and set it down; then she went back to the kitchen to eat, where it would be much more peaceful (The lecture was still going on.). After she finished, she cleaned her mess and started some more broth and tea for Edmund. Once it was done, she began to take it up, when she heard her name mentioned by Peter. A small smile played on her lips. She crept up to listen. Peter was saying, "What do you know about her, Lu?"
"Well..." Lu launched into a vivid description of what Lecia had told her.
"Is that all you know about her?"
"Well, yes."
Peter began to pace. "By the Lion, Lu! Seriously? You're a queen! Queens can't be too trusting! We trusted the Telmarines and look where that got us!" He took a few deep breaths and calmed down a bit. "Look, It's not like I'm not grateful that she saved the three of us. I am." He continued, but Lecia didn't stay long enough to hear it. She easily got her feelings hurt, and that had just put her a little over the top in anger. She knew better than to stay around and risk taking her anger out on Peter. She went back to the kitchen, where she took the bracelet off and laid on the tray that she had prepared for Ed, along with a note that she hastily penned. Then she took off south on foot, running at full speed. She had left Ruby behind, seeing as how she didn't want anyone else to suffer for her bruised pride.
Lucy had tuned Peter out a long time ago. She suddenly realized that Lecia had been gone an extensive time, much longer than she had needed to be. She stood up and picked up their plates. She took them down to the kitchen, where she expected to find Lecia. But Lecia was gone. Her quick eyes spotted the gleaming bracelet on the tray and the note underneath. She grabbed the note and read it:
Dear Lu and High King Peter, (Lu giggled at this; it symbolized the fact that Lece assumed that Pete didn't like her too much)
I've told Lu some things about 2012, the year I'm from in our world. Well, another thing that I haven't told you is that when we realize we aren't wanted, we leave. I'm going to try to rescue your other sister. Aslan hasn't told me to, so I might get killed. Just in case I do, I'm leaving Ruby here, along with the bracelet. I don't want them to fall into Calormene and Telmarine hands. I'll see you two when I return, if I return.
With all sincerity,
Lecia Shepherd
Lucy was fuming. She grabbed the tray and took it up to Ed's room, where she promptly yelled, "Peter Simon Pevinsie, why can't you keep your mouth shut?"
He looked flabbergasted. "What do you mean?"
She threw the note at him. "See what I mean?"
He read it, his eyebrows raising with every word. "What does she mean by, 'When we realize we aren't wanted, we leave.'?"
"Don't you see? She must have heard you when you were ranting about me being too trusting!"
"Lion alive." Peter whispered. "So, I essentially caused her to go and basically commit suicide?"
"Yes, you did."
"I've got to go try and find her before she gets herself killed." Peter said, standing.
Lu also stood. "Be careful, Pete."
"I will. Take care of yourself this time, okay?"
"I will."
With that admonition, Peter left.
