"What happened to my parents?"

Jadis knew that she had no choice but to answer me then. "Your parents were killed by the catapults I rained on their little castle." I narrowed the gap between the two swords so that it constricted her neck. "When we went through the rumble, we didn't find their bodies. They had escaped." She said. "How can you control water?"

"I am the one who asks the questions here." I punched her again. "You have the blood of millions on your hand." She laughed as she turned to face me again.

"And would you have the blood of one on your hand?"

She was taunting me. I knew that. "Did you kill them?"

"Of course I did, silly girl." She laughed, her voice pricking my ears. "Your parents were nothing but imbeciles."

"Don't."

The ground we were standing on started rumbling. The stone we were standing on would fall down at any moment. The Professor was right. The structure of Aslan's How was unstable after the Second Battle of Beruna. I should have listened to him. But what could I have done? I was stubborn.

At that time, I became distracted and Jadis decided to attack me, but I wasn't going to lose twice. I struck her with both the swords and they pierced right through her. "For my parents."

Her eyes were wide open and the loss overcame her. The stone was threatening to break anytime. "Don't." She begged but the stone broke and that was the end of the White Witch.

I got up and heard someone calling me. "Sophie!"

"Caspian!"

I held onto the ground of the valley and was about to climb up when the stone fell and took me with it. But I held onto a lower branch. I looked down and saw that there was a small pool of water there. Where did that come from? It certainly was not because of the rain. It was a small pond-like water body.

"Caspian!"

I was trying not to look down. Fear of heights? Check.

I looked up and saw the dark eyes of my loved one. Both of us were worried. "Caspian." I whispered. "Take my hand." He leaned down to give me his hand.

The branch was strong but I couldn't push myself up. I tried giving him my hand but just as it had touched, I slipped. "I can't."

Caspian gave me his hand once again and I caught it that time. The branch broke and fell down but I was hanging mid air. "I've got you."

My hands were dry and his were sweaty because of the fight and I could feel myself slipping. "Caspian!" I breathed out. "Please don't let me fall." I cried out and tried pulling myself up but I had no support to hold onto.

"Never."

He couldn't pull me up because he was leaning halfway out of the ground of the valley. Both of us knew the inevitable. If he continued to hold onto me, both of us would fall. "Hold on, Sophie." He warned as though he could read my mind.

But my hands were slipping from his. He looked me in the eye and I could see his tears. I was tearing up as well. And then, I finally said it. "I love you."

Our hands let each other go and I fell.

"No!" I heard him scream and I wanted to hit that ground as soon as possible.

I felt like I was falling forever because the ground never came. I felt the cold feeling wash over me but I didn't feel the ground. I didn't smell the dirt or the air but I found myself sitting.

I opened my eyes. I don't know when I closed them but when I opened them, I was staring at myself.

There was a pond in front of me. It was small and didn't have much water in it. I felt strange when I looked down and saw myself wearing my school uniform. "What?" I pulled the collar. Next to me, my leg hit my camo bag and I looked at myself once again in the pond.

"No no no no no." I shouted as I went through my bag. All my belongings were inside. "No!" I screamed as I realised what had happened.

I was back in the Other World.

"No!" I tried putting my hand through the pond but only felt the water. I stared at the wet droplets in my hand and starting panicking. "This cannot happen!" I held my forehead.

That was worse than what I had thought would happen if I had died. I was back in the Other World. I couldn't get back to Narnia because I didn't know how. Caspian was all alone there and I was all alone here. Oh my Aslan! What would he tell everyone? Did he know that I wasn't dead? Did he see that I had fallen through? That was what the pond was about!

"No!" I slammed the ground with my hands until they hurt. "Why!"

I looked at the ring on the necklace and it was glowing. "You." I snarled at it.

The same ring that had once saved my life was the same reason for my departure. I pulled it from my neck and threw it away. I hugged myself and broke into tears. I was in the middle of a forest but I could smell smoke in the air. I was stuck in the Other World.

Why was fate working against me?

First, I left my parents to be killed by none other than the person I had just murdered. That made me no better than her. Second, I was taken to where I belonged and after spending what felt like one of the best times of my life, I was brought back to where I was a nobody.

Why was the universe so cruel?

I thought about all the moments where I could have told Caspian so many things and regret washed over me. "No." I whispered as I let my emotions engulf me.