The Choice

Cair Paravel

All of my worries disappeared when I saw my siblings laughing and running towards the beautiful blue sea. " A shame you're not as quick as me Ed!" my oldest brother yelled. "The last one in's a rotten egg" Susan screamed. I started sprinting towards the water, my siblings were surprised by my action and began chasing me. I don't know why but this place feels like freedom, it feels like home. We played in the water for a bit until Ed asked "Where do you think we are?". I had already come up with a witty remark but I got cut off by Peter who started laughing at my brother and said "Where do you think we are?!". "But I don't remember any ruins in Narnia" Ed answered. "I say we take a look, if we're here after all why not make an adventure out of it?" I suggested. My siblings looked at me like they saw water burning. "What?" I said questioning their surprised looks. "I told you you would like it here!" Lucy whispered in my ear. "Great idea sister, let's find a way up and have a look around the ruins" my oldest brother said with a grin.

While walking up the path towards the ruins I was astonished by the mesmerizing nature that was surrounding me.

Why does this place feels so familiar?

I was pulled from my thoughts when I heard a conversation going on between Lucy and Susan.

"Who do you think lived here?" Lucy asked her older sister

Susan was approaching Lucy when she suddenly stopped and took something from the grass " I think we did". (Edmund looked at the thing Susan was holding up and recognised it " hey, that's a piece from my golden chess set!". "Golden chess set?!" I said not understanding this whole conversation. "What golden chess set?" Peter interfered. " I didn't exactly have a solid gold chess set in Finchley, did I?' Edmund chuckled.

What the fuck are these people talking about?

I saw Lucy was zoning out and as I was going to ask her if something was wrong she started running to an open place with ruins of what should have been thrones I think. "Don't you see?" she started. "Imagine walls and columns there and a glass roof." "Cair Paravel" Peter said knowingly. I started to feel left out, Peter noticed and gave me a reassuring smile telling me it's okay not to understand.

"So you're saying that you lived here for almost a decade in a beautiful palace but then you returned home and this place has been attacked by catapults. And this all happened in almost two years?!" I said confused.

This shit is messing with my head.

"Yep, that's about it" Ed said.

"Okay, I'll try to wrap my head around it"