Forty-fourth Prompt: Weakness

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The cold stare of the witch pinned Edmund down to the ground.

Then and there he tried to look up to her, into her eyes, but something made him look down again.
Her stare was cold, cruel, and it reminded him somehow of his many fights with Peter.

The sleigh stopped and the witch got out.
Edmund looked up.

He saw green grass.
How?

"Son of Adam", the witch said. Edmund hurried to get out. The witch looked down a cliff, at a waterfall.
It started to get hot, somehow.

Edmund smiled. Was the winter finally over?
Good. He was beginning to feel a but much cold.

"It's starting to get warm...", the dwarf said and tried to put down his coat, but the witch looked at him and he stopped in his movement.
"I'm going to take care of the sleigh", he said, to escape the witch.

Edmund grinned.

"Your majesty!", a voice said.
"We found the traitor who gave us the wrong directions!"

Edmund turned around and faced a group of wolves, one of them carrying a fox.

"Ah", the witch said.
"It was very nice, how you helped out my wolves last night. Maybe you could help me now."

"Forgive me, your majesty", the fox said and looked down.

The witch hissed:"Don't waste my time with flatteries!"

"No offense, but I wasn't talking to you", the fox said, looking up.
Edmund frowned confused, especially when everyone looked at him.

"Where did they go?", the witch growled.

The fix didn't answer and the witch pulled her staff back, ready to turn it into stone.

"No!", Edmund screamed, jumping in front of the fox.
"The beaver said something about a stone table! Aslan shall have an army there!"

He looked back to the fox, only to see the fox disappointedly looking down.

"Thank you, Edmund", the witch said. "I'm glad that this creature sees what honesty is one last time - before it's death!"

"No!", Edmund screamed.

The witch turned around, grabbed his hand and slapped him.

"Choose your side! Theirs-", she turned Edmund's head to the fox, "or mine. You are a weak boy, and they are a weak side. Your only way to survive, is to choose mine."