This chapter is set in my Darkness universe (brief intro on profile).
8-3-22 I've decided I want this chapter as its own fic, so I've removed most of it here.
Prompt: Tumnus, the Beavers, Aravis, Cor, Corin, someone else—write one or more reactions when they hear that the Pevensies are gone.
Chapter 7: À Dieu
"Let us go on and take the adventure that shall fall to us," says Queen Susan, and one by one they pass into the thicket, with the High King Peter in the lead, and the high Queen Ailena at the rear.
She knows it the moment they step out of the world. The air flexes four times in succession, rushing in to fill newly-empty space, and each time a different piece of her heart goes missing. She takes a deep breath, and then steps through the last bush herself.
A large wardrobe stands in the little clearing, its back toward her. She does not attempt to step around and open the door. This pathway is not hers to take, for her place is here, as it has been since the beginning, and as it will be until the end. Instead, she reaches out to lay one hand on the bright applewood, thinking back many years to a Tree in a garden, and a tree by a river, and a third tree in a London yard.
The full oneshot may now be found in its individual posting, À Dieu.