A Narnians Memories

V | Stars

"Sir," said Caspian, "will you tell us how to undo the enchantment which holds these three Narnian Lords asleep?"
I will gladly tell you that, my son," said the Old Man. "To break this enchantment you must sail to the World's End, or as near as you can come to it, and you must come back having left at least one of your company behind."
"And what must happen to that one?" asked Reepicheep. "He must go on into the utter east and never return into the world." "That is my heart's desire," said Reepicheep.
"And are we near the World's End now, Sir?" asked Caspian. "Have you any knowledge of the seas and lands further east than this?"
"I saw them long ago," said the Old Man, "but it was from a great height. I cannot tell you such things as sailors need to know."
"Do you mean you were flying in the air?" Eustace blurted out.
"I was a long way above the air, my son," replied the Old Man. "I am Ramandu. But I see that you stare at one another and have not heard this name. And no wonder, for the days when I was a star had ceased long before any of you knew this world, and all the constellations have changed."
"Golly," said Edmund under his breath. "He's a retired star."
"Aren't you a star any longer?" asked Lucy.
"I am a star at rest, my daughter," answered Ramandu. "When I set for the last time, decrepit and old beyond all that you can reckon, I was carried to this island. I am not so old now as I was then. Every morning a bird brings me a fire-berry from the valleys in the sun, and each fire-berry takes away a little of my age. And when I have become as young as this child that was born yesterday, than I shall take my rising again and once more tread the great dance."

When Sirius woke up Peter and Remus were already changing. "Padfoot, get ready we have 10 minutes until breakfast ends!" James said, who was next to his bed and was most likely the one who woke him up. Sirius got up fast and took clothes from his pile of clothings. All of them changed as fast as possible and ran down to the great hall.
The four sat down on the Griffindor table and started eating as fast as they could. "Padfoot, stop eating like a pig." James said at some point. Sirius looked up from his food to his friend. "I don't eat like a pig! You eat like a pig!" Sirius said. "I eat like a King!" The black haired said with a proud face. James laughed. "Yeah, like a barbarian king." The boy with the glasses laughed. Sirius gave him a deadly glare, but started laughing as well after a few seconds. The other two looked at each other with a smile. Seeing the two joking around again was something they definitely missed offer the past week.

In class the Marauders joked around and didn't pay attention. But no one payed attention in History of magic. It was simply boring. Professor Binns was talking about the believes of the old wizards and how they believed that there was a wood that connected all the world with each other. This wood had a lot of pools were each pool brought you to a different world. Sirius didn't really pay attention to this. He was thinking about the Prophecy. He wasn't stupid, 'sons and daughters of Adam and eve', it was obviously about the Pevensies. 'the powerful lion', aslan... 'the Highest will lead us to war like he did two times before' Peter the high king, he lead two army's to war back in Narnia. They would come to fight the war against Voldemort with him. He felt bad, he always had to call them just to fight a war for him. It was unfair, why couldn't he met them for no reason at all. Just to catch up, not to fight a war. Whenever they came to Narnia they always had to fight and now they have to come to a different world to fight the war of stranger who are not even Narnians.
The day went by fast and in the afternoon he and James went to Quidditch practice. James and Sirius desperately wanted to win this year, because it was there last year so the practice was way harder than the years before. Sirius was to much in his thoughts today to really be good which everyone in the team of course noticed, but no one dared to asked him about it.

When Sirius laid down in the evening he couldn't sleep. Slowly he left the bad but once again he sat down on the windowsill. He looked out the window and at the stars. When James sat next to him he turned his eyes to the boy. "Hey..." James whispered. Sirius smiled at him. "You okay?" Sirius just nod his head. "I just don't want to sleep..." The black said. Sirius looked out of the window again. "You see that star over there?" He asked James. James looked at the sky. "That one?" He asked and pointed at one. Sirius laughed. "No this one!" He said pointing at a star far away from the other one. "That is the Star I'm named after... And that one," He said pointing at a second one. "that is regulus and that one-" James listened his best friend, while he was talking about all the different stars. James smiled, it was good to have his best friend back. He was glad that the fight had ended.