Fate, Perhaps || Caspian

Prologue

Elia was tired of listening to her brother complain about the lack of variety in the soups their mother made. With the war going on, getting hands on groceries was a big enough deal. She ate her lunch, quietly making conversation with Lucy and Edmund who sat next to her.

Her cousins, the youngest Pevensies had been living in the Scrubb household for over eight months now, since their parents and eldest daughter Susan went to live in America and the eldest son Peter was in the country preparing for University.

The younger Pevensie siblings still had to complete school which gave them no option but to stay here, and live with the dreaded Scrubb family. The only good person in that family was Elia.

She was certainly grateful for them as well. Her father neglected everyone, her mother would only talk about marrying her off to someone rich and her brother Eustace would complain about everything. Edmund and Lucy had been a refreshing change in her life recently and she had gladly gotten along with them immediately.

Ed and Lucy thought the same. They were glad to have someone from that family who understood them instead of mocking them. Elia shared her room with Lucy while Eustace had to share with Edmund. Neither boys were happy about it. Some nights, the girls would sneak Edmund out of his room and they would join beds and narrate their adventures in Narnia to Elia.

At first she thought that they were making up things so she would laugh about it. But the details were too particular for a made up story. Meeting Aslan, fighting wars, defeating a powerful witch, meeting a prince, restoring the kingdom, all this was just too real for her.

Eustace was another case altogether. He would mock them and talk rubbish about the Narnian stories he would overhear when the Ed, Lucy and Elia would be talking about it. He called them mad and a burden. Of course, no one took him seriously. He would babble about non fiction and facts which would go unheard by not only the kids but also their parents.

What Elia and Eustace didn't know was, they were soon going to receive the shock of their lives. To one it would be an escape, all her dreams coming true, and to the other, it would be his worst nightmare.