wis·dom
/ˈwizdəm/
noun
the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise.
Narnia had always been a free country, until she came along. Jadis was the devil in disguise, and she brought to the kingdom an eternal...
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"What strange creatures brothers are!" - Jane Austen
England, 1940 / Narnia, 1000
The following day, Olivia still expected to wake up in the snow, to look up and see trees and branches. Instead, she woke up with the bright sun glimmering on her face and the soft comfort of a pillow supporting her head and neck.
Olivia frowned. She touched the back of her head, expecting to sense the cold ache of snowflakes tugged in the strands of hair, only to be met with nothing. The brunette sat up with a frown, semi-awake as she looked around the room. Perhaps it was a dream? She gently pressed her finger to the wooden edge of her bed, only to find herself with a millisecond of pain and a nick on her finger, a single drop of blood trailing down.
Lucy rushed into Olivia's room, shaking the confused girl. "Come on! We're going to the yard and play! Join us" She said excitedly, and Olivia barely had time for the words to enter her mind. When the girl realised, she was all dressed up for the day. Lucy tugged her to the gardens outside. Olivia didn't even have time to think about what had happened the past night or how she woke up in her room.
Edmund, Susan, and Peter were getting ready to play a game when she came to be. It may be cricket. Or baseball? Olivia needed to learn about sports. They were all very confusing, indeed.
She wasn't a very sports-ish person. She was always too immersed in books to waste time kicking balls around, or running in the fields and chasing something meaningless. Olivia didn't like things that attached her to the real world: she liked the escape routes, the ways to flee reality and immerse in fantasy. She wasn't built for this world, anyway.
Peter was the one who seemed most excited. Edmund looked bored, and Susan seemed calm. When Olivia and Lucy came into sight, Edmund rushed over to them, confusing all three of his siblings. Edmund wanting to talk was already a charm, and wanting to talk a person he just met and Lucy? Who was this young man and what had he done to the anti-social little sibling?
"You disappeared yesterday." Edmund bluntly stated to Olivia as he halted in front of the little duo. Lucy looked at Edmund with a grin when he approached, and the youngest Pevensie went to find herself a comfortable place in the grass to sit in.
"I came back here." She responded drily. Edmund didn't seem to be the educated-when-talking type, either. "What happened after I left? Who was that woman? The one in the sleigh,"
"Oh. She was, um, the Queen of Narnia." Edmund said, not offering details to his simple answer. Olivia eyed the boy suspiciously.
Of course, it was no mere or simple statement. But, recently, nothing seemed to be simple or mere. Olivia was still trying to wrap her head around the fact of the existence of an entire magical Kingdom in her wardrobe, let alone try to understand its logistics and rules.
