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Jadis is enraged. Aslan, back! Confirmed by the deputy of her own Maugrim, who died on the sword of the very child she thought she'd caught! Maugrim, dead. She paces. She comes too close to Winter for her liking on one of her passes through her throne room and rather than turn an instant before she means to she backhands him out of her way into the nearest wall. She paces and fumes and roars.

Finally she spins on her toe to face Winter, who may still be on the floor in his careless way but has surely recovered from the blow by now. "You," she says, "must go to the lion, and tell him that I desire safe conduct to treat with him on a matter of as much importance to him as to me. Go peacefully, I do not mind if you alarm the pitiful creatures who side with him but do not harm them while I seek parley. Do you understand, my Winter?" She bends to crook her first two fingers under his chin to turn his head up for frigid eye contact, inspecting him, thinking furious thoughts to which he's only an accessory. "I think the lion may be unnerved to see you. We will see."

Date: 2014-06-24 01:30 am (UTC)
deepest_magic: (i ~ narnia's)
From: [personal profile] deepest_magic
When James doesn't get growled at for this presumption, Bella imitates her.

And so they walk.

Date: 2014-06-24 01:31 am (UTC)
alicornucopia: (fluffy jesus)
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And so they walk back to the hill.

When they come to the last tree between them and the Stone Table, Aslan says:

"Oh, children, children, here you must stop. And whatever happens, do not let yourself be seen. Farewell."

Date: 2014-06-24 01:32 am (UTC)
deepest_magic: (o ~ disconsolate)
From: [personal profile] deepest_magic
Bella darkens her scepter and bursts into tears and buries her face in his mane.

Date: 2014-06-24 01:33 am (UTC)
neverbeatme: Very sorry about something. (ℤ almost an apology)
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James hugs the great lion too, although she isn't crying while she does it.

Date: 2014-06-24 01:36 am (UTC)
alicornucopia: (fluffy jesus)
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He lets them pet him and fuss over him for a minute, but then gently shakes them off and finishes his climb.

Date: 2014-06-24 01:43 am (UTC)
jackfrostbite: (④ frosted smile)
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- a lost son of Adam.

Date: 2014-06-24 01:46 am (UTC)
jackfrostbite: (⑦ knowledge)
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Winter is, by a considerable margin, the first of her creatures to set to this task. It's not that he's less afraid than they are; it's that he doesn't see why that should stop him.

Date: 2014-06-24 01:51 am (UTC)
jackfrostbite: (⑫ tell me)
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Winter doesn't get caught up in the excitement with the rest of them. But when the Queen commands that the lion be shaved, he produces a knife and gets to it, quite carefully and gently so that not a single nick mars the skin under the mane as it falls away.

Date: 2014-06-24 01:54 am (UTC)
deepest_magic: (k ~ valiant)
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Pointless. Pointless and repulsive and cruel. But not, yet, injurious. Maybe this is all she wants to do. Maybe this was so irresistable that she'd give up her thread of a claim to James? Bella's holding her breath.

Date: 2014-06-24 01:57 am (UTC)
jackfrostbite: (⑬ blanket of snow)
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Winter assists in that effort, too. But he doesn't taunt or laugh. He's... quiet.

Date: 2014-06-24 01:58 am (UTC)
neverbeatme: Looking sideways, leaning forward. (ℚ await and observe)
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James is really not sure what to make of this Winter character.

Date: 2014-06-24 02:06 am (UTC)
jackfrostbite: (⑪ eternal)
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(Perhaps no one will notice the way Winter puts his hand on Aslan's great shoulder, just for a moment, before he turns away to make room for the Witch at his head. Perhaps even Aslan won't notice. Jadis certainly won't; he is very careful to conceal it from her.)

Date: 2014-06-24 02:23 am (UTC)
neverbeatme: Wearing a suit. (ℝ deadly serious)
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James is now completely certain that Aslan is planning something. There is nothing else that could be going on. Even if the thing he's planning is just for James and Bellla to win the fight, he has to have some reason to believe absolutely that they will. Because it's so obvious that he would have seen this coming, if his rules allow for it at all.

Date: 2014-06-24 02:37 am (UTC)
alicornucopia: (fluffy jesus)
From: [personal profile] alicornucopia
And the lion dies.

Date: 2014-06-25 02:15 am (UTC)
jackfrostbite: (⑪ eternal)
From: [personal profile] jackfrostbite
Winter doesn't move with the crowd at first; he spends a second or two gazing down at Aslan's body with a look of quiet sadness, and then just as the last of the horde streams past him and none are left to see him do it, he undoes the muzzle over the lion's mouth and drops it on the ground.

As he turns to follow the rest of Jadis's creatures, his eyes pass over James and Bella's hiding place with barely a pause. He doesn't stare or cry out or indicate in any other way that he saw them; he just starts after the trailing end of his Queen's army, slower than the rest of them but still quite fast enough to be gone in the space of a breath.

Date: 2014-06-25 02:17 am (UTC)
deepest_magic: (k ~ valiant)
From: [personal profile] deepest_magic

"He saw us."
Edited Date: 2014-06-25 02:18 am (UTC)

Date: 2014-06-25 02:21 am (UTC)
neverbeatme: Eyes half-closed, chin up. Steady. (ℝ a little aloof)
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"I think he decided not to see us," James murmurs. "Didn't you see him, that whole time? His heart couldn't have been less in it. I just can't figure out why."

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