CHAPTER 14-Return...
"You'll never take me alive!" I yelled over my shoulder as I galloped away from Peter. Laughing, he urged Samuel on, and Artemis, getting slow, was easily over taken.
"I just did," he muttered, as he leaned over and kissed me.
"Save it for the bedroom," I said as I settled and concentrated on looking for glimpses of the White Stag. As I searched, my mind began to wander. Who knew that something this extraordinary would happen to an outcast like me? I still remembered that day, nearly ten years ago. We ventured through the mirror in my room and stumbled upon the tall lantern, where Storm Walker (now a good friend of ours) found us, arrested us, and brought us to Cair Paraval, where I met Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter.
As I reminisced, the past came back to haunt me. I saw, up ahead, the four brothers and sisters gathered around a tall, thin, wrought-iron structure, the top of which glowed with the light of fire. Ben and I dismounted, awed by the sight.
"It's like a dream," Susan said in, ironically, a dreamy voice.
"Or a dream of a dream...Spare Oom!" Lucy shouted. She began running, her siblings following her, but I noticed something different.
"Sophie!" Peter called. I yelled back, "I'll meet up with you in a minute! Ben, over here!" I grabbed Ben's hand and pulled him behind me, all the while asking what was going on. After we passed a particularly large bush, we saw it: a cloudy portal hovering in midair, which reflected my worn writing desk, the unfinished story I was writing.
"My Aslan!" Ben quietly exclaimed, awed at what we discovered. Barely thinking, I crept through the shrubbery, took a deep breath, and stepped through the portal.