Chapter 4
"eh hum" a voice called from behind Alex.
Shocked she spun round trying to locate the source of the voice whilst standing up from the snow covered ground. However she saw nothing , so she looked around in another direction trying to locate where the voice came from.
"down here" the voice called again.
She looked down to see what looked like… a beaver?
She shook her head "great, im now hearing things " she said out loud to herself frustrated.
"Hello" 'the beaver' said to her.
"im officially loosing it because it looked like that beaver just moved its mouth and said hello to me… first I talk to myself, now this, whats next?"
"I can assure you are not imagining things miss" the beaver said back to her
Alex then suddenly remembered about how Lucy said Mr. Tumnus was a talking faun and figured that most things can talk here.
"Lucy was right this place is amazing" she said out loud
"Lucy?" the beaver questioned to her.
"Are you by any chance a daughter of eve"
Confused Alex answered "no my mothers name was Rosaria"
"no, I mean are you human?" the beaver questioned.
"no… im a fish" Alex said back sarcastically rolling her eyes
Seeing the look of confusion that crossed the beavers face she realised he didn't know she was being sarcastic.
"yes of course im human… it was a joke, I do that a lot" she amended to the beaver.
"my name is Alex" she introduced herself holding out her hand to him
Seeing him looking at her hand once again confused she realised that they couldn't exactly handshake as it was a beaver not a person. So she withdrew her hand quickly.
"wait, did you say your mothers name was Rosaria?" the beaver questioned her
"yes, why does that matter?" alex asked confused
She saw the beaver thinking for a moment before quickly shaking his head.
"never mind, my name is MR. beaver"
'such an original name' she thought to herself. She then imagined someone calling out for Mr. Beaver and around 50 beavers looking to the person calling all with the same name, and laughed out loud at the thought.
"whats funny?" he questioned
"nothing, just me being stupid" Alex dismissed calming down
"have you by any chance seen any other humans here not long ago passing?" she questioned going back to her earlier thought of trying to find Lucy and Edmund.
"No I haven't, but I did see footprints that looked human on the top of that hill" he indicated with his head where.
She felt a surge of hope at the possibility of finding the others.
"thank you, it was a pleasure meeting you Mr beaver she said waving goodbye to him as she turned to walk away. Before he called her back
"WAIT!, Be careful out their you never know whos listening" the beaver said to her
"what, who?" she questioned confused.
"the trees" he elaborated
"listening trees, talking beavers and fauns I really shouldn't be surprised should I she said to herself"
She nodded to the beaver goodbye before walking of in the direction of the hill.
"what am I getting myself into, ive walked into a wardrobe which contains Narnia, dangerous things" she said out loud to herself.
tonight was going great.
[10 minutes later]
"Ugh!"she growled to herself as she finally made It the top of the hill whilst panting
"whooo I really need to exercise more and I don't think my usual reading books in the library counts as that… who am I kidding im just lazy" she said to herself
She spotted the footprints Mr beaver told her about an followed the trail until it lead her to what she could see a figure in the distance
"Edmund?" she called out to the figure hoping it was him.
The figure turned around showing a familiar face.
"boy for once am I happy to see you" she said smiling finally happy she found someone.
His originally confused face then turned into his signature scowl.
'some things never change' she thought to herself.
"what are you doing here?" he accused her
"what am I doing here? Following you but Narnia is so big I got lost for a while and ran into a beaver"
"a beaver" he questioned.
Alex waved her hand dismissing it "long story never mind"
"the real question is what are you doing here" Alex asked raising her eyebrows at him whilst crossing her arms trying to look intimidating and failing.
"nothing I was just following Lucy" he replied
"yeah I know I saw you, I followed you as well remember"
"yeah well your not so good at following are you if you got lost" he said smugly
"and your terrible at sneaking, I bet that was you who creaked the floor board earlier, it was dumb of me not to realise at the time it was you" he accused changing the subject of him.
"well we can agree on one thing, you just admitted you were dumb"
She said now smiling smugly whilst Edmund scowled.
"And ill have you know my sneaking skills are epic… im just having an of day" Alex finished mumbling embarrassed.
"Hey I didn't mean I was dumb i-
I cut him of
"it dosent matter the real question is what have you been doing iin Narnia all this time as I cant see Lucy so you obviously didn't keep following her" I questioned him
Before he had the chance to answer a voice called out from behind them
"Edmund? Alex?" Lucy called whilst emerging from the trees and running towards them.
"oh Edmund, Alex you go in two isn't it wonderful she said hugging a clearly uncomfortable Edmund.
'someones not a hugger' I thought whilst smirking at the scene.
Then Lucy let go of Edmund and run up to hug me, whilst I gratefully hugged her back.
"you were night Lucy im sorry for not believing you, Narnia is real"
Alex however did not miss Edmunds quickly wiping the corner of his mouth when he thought we were not looking
'was that sugar dust? How did he get that round his mouth?' Alex thought confused but decided to not worry about it right now.
"where have you been?" he questioned Lucy.
"I was with Mr. Tumnus, hes fine the white witch hasn't found out about him meeting me?
A shudder ran down my spine at the thought of the name
"whos the white witch?" Edmund questioned
Lucy looked around the area quickly before leaning in closer to use "she calls herself the queen of Narnia but she really isn't"
Alex saw Edmund thinking and have a look of realisation come across his face but she dismissed it thinking that he was only processing the information like she was.
"Are you alright Edmund you look awful?" lucy questioned
"seconded, his face dosent look pretty" Alex said egarly whilst raising her hand and already anticipated the glare Edmund would give her with her smiling cheekily in return
'your lying' a voice in the back of her head said to her 'where did that come from?" she thought before shaking her head riding herself of those thoughts.
"well what do you expect? I mean its freezing" he deafened himself.
Alex had to agree, how she had not got frostbite yet as she was only wearing slippers she did not know.
"how do we get out of here" Edmund questioned.
"I hope you know Lucy because im lost as well" Alex said
"come on this way" Lucy replied grabbing their hands leading them back to the entrance of the wardrobe… back to home.