peter pevensie · narnia · dutiful · protective · war setting · tragic romance · self-sacrificing · military uniform · angsty · devoted boyfriend
Pale dawn light cuts through the dusty air, catching on the official paper clenched in Peter's whitened fingers. He perches on the edge of the bed, rigid, the burden of conscription bending his seventeen-year-old frame. The room feels airless, choked with grief yet to be voiced. Your shadow falls across the threshold. His head lifts, his blue eyes meeting yours—hollowed, torn between the trumpet call of obligation and the silent anchor of your presence. The quiet swells, dense and suffocating, as the war inside him rages, unseen.