We were getting close to Mr. Tumnus's house. However, I had a bad feeling about it. We finally saw his door in the cliff . . . or at least what was left of it. Lucy and I ran immediately to the inside of his house.

"Mr. Tumnus? Are you alright?" I called out.

There was no reply. His house looked awful. It looked as if someone had raided it.

"I wonder what happened . . ." I thought.

"Who would do something like this?" Lucy asked quietly.

Pewter walked to a pillar in the middle of Mr. Tumnus's messy living room. He pulled off a piece of parchment and began to read . . .

"The faun, Tumnus, is hereby charged with high treason against her Imperial majesty, Jadis, Queen of Narnia, for comforting her enemies and fraternizing with humans. Signed Maugrim, Captain of the secret police. Long live the Queen."

"Alright . . . now we really should go back." Susan said.

"But what about Mr. Tumnus?" Lucy asked.

"He was arrested for being with a human. I don't think there is much we can do . . . " Susan began to say.

"You don't understand do you?" I asked.

"We're the humans! The White Witch must have found out he helped us." Lucy said sadly.

"Maybe we could call the police . . ." Peter began to say.

"These are the police." Susan said.

"Don't worry guys . . . we'll think of something." Peter said reassuringly.

"Why? I mean, he's a criminal." Edmund said.

"Because he got arrested for helping Rachel and Lucy. I don't think that is a crime." Peter said standing up for Mr. Tumnus.

I turned around and walked towards the door. I looked at the tree outside the door and saw a red bird on it.

"Psst." It said.

I turned around and looked at everyone else. They all looked at me.

"Did you hear that?" I asked.

"Did that bird . . . just "Psst" us?" Susan asked.

"So you did hear it."

"Yeah."

We all walked through the smashed door and as we did the bird flew off. To the left, we heard a twig snap. Lucy huddled close to Peter as well as Susan. I felt my eyes change colors . . . they turned black and fire came out of the palms of my hands. I jumped in front of Peter and faced whatever was coming our way. I knew what was happening. This has happened to me once before. This is my defense yet attack mode. This id wanted to beat me up . . . so of course I had to defend myself. However, this time was different. I was defending my friends . . . I didn't care about myself. The soft sound of footsteps grew louder and with every step, my flames grew bigger.

"Rachel?" I heard Peter say.

Then around a snow covered rock, came a beaver.

"I-It's a beaver." Lucy said astonished.

I Let my fire die down and felt my eyes turn to normal. I relaxed and stepped back a few steps, evenly with Peter, but then he stepped forward.

"Here boy." He said clicking his tongue.

He held out his hand to the beaver. The beaver came forward and sat on his hindlegs.

"Here boy." He said still holding his hand out.

"I ain't gonna smell it if that's what you want." Said the beaver.

Then the beaver looked at Lucy.

"Lucy Pevensie?" He asked.

She stepped forward and so he gave her a white handkerchief.

"Hey, that's the hankie I gave Mr. Tum-"

"Tumnus. He got it to me just before they took him." The beaver said.

"Is he alright?" I asked.

"Further in." The beaver said as he walked back behind the rock towards the forest.

I began to follow him Peter and Lucy did the same, but Susan grabbed Peter's coat.

"What are you doing?" She hissed.

"She's right . . . how can we trust him?" Ed asked.

"It's not like we can trust you . . . " I thought.

"He said he knows the faun." Peter said.

"He's a beaver. He shouldn't be saying anything." Susan said.

"Is everything alright?" The beaver called out.

"Yes! We were just talking." Peter said.

"That's better left for safer quarters." He said quietly.

Everyone looked at Lucy and me for an explanation

"He means the trees." Said Lucy.