Tales of the Narnian Monarchs: Reality's Frightful Jerk

Daring, Nerve And- Well, Not As Much Chivalry

Oh, how being stood at a train platform with the Pevensies and Sanya with the sound of an approaching train can suddenly make the day feel a lot less bright, Lilith realised as they reached the edge of the platform.

Sanya saw the train coming and suddenly a memory of Lilith sobbing in their cabin aboard the Dawn Treader entered her head. Trying to slow down her suddenly rapid breathing, she reached out and grabbed Ed's hand, holding it tight.

He looked at her, confused for a moment, before realising and held her hand just as tight.

If this WAS their death, they were determined they would die holding each other.

But it wasn't, not today.

"Come on," Susan said, her voice the only hushed thing about her- every single passing male threw her glances which made Peter want to beat them to a bloody pulp. "Get on the train." She continued, chivvying Lucy up first, then Lilith, then herself before being followed by Peter, Sanya and Edmund.

"Find an empty compartment!" Edmund called, as he wrestled through the crowd of people on the train- oh how he detested large mobs!

"No shit, Sherlock." Sanya called back, disappearing into the crowd as well. If there was one thing India had taught her, it was how to get through a whole humongous lot of people.

It felt like a lifetime, yet was only a few minutes, until they'd all managed to squeeze into an empty compartment.
"Why do people even exist." Lilith couldn't help but mutter, realising it probably WASN'T best to put a cat in a picnic basket up on the bag rack and settling it on her knee, instead.

"Evolution and things, according to books." Edmund replied, dropping onto the opposite seat.

"Then the whole thing's overrated." She decided, glancing out the window as the train set off.

"Agreed." Sanya replied, her head leaning on the wall. "It'd be so much better if humans didn't exist."

Lucy half agreed and half thought she was very pessimistic.

"We'd be out of work then." Susan and Peter said together.

"You wouldn't exist at all then." Edmund rolled his eyes at his elder siblings, sliding closer to Sanya and leaning his head on her shoulder.

Peter glanced to Lilith, whose lips twitched and she handed off her basket to Lucy before cosying up next to Peter.

"I need to find myself a fellow." Susan said, rolling her silver blue eyes at the two couples (well, one of them were a couple, anyway).

"So do I." Lucy sighed.

"Absolutely not!" Rang out the two voices of her brother in unison, tone same.

"You don't NEED to find anyone." Lilith replied, ignoring the brother's, "You're both doing perfectly find on your own. Boys are a liability. But when you do start a search, you'll have no trouble, I'm sure."
Susan seemed quite pleased with the reply, yet Lucy turned thoughtful, "I have a friend at school- well, the last time I saw him was months ago but- I think he liked me... he said we should go-"

"To school and do Maths together." Peter finished her sentence, "you're 14, Lu. There's nothing more to say on the matter."

"There's nothing wrong with meeting for ice cream after school!" She retorted.

"There are alleyways beside the parlour." Edmund spoke up in a warning tone which both his eldest and youngest sibling sent him a glare.

Everyone expected someone to explode at him, perhaps for his words or for his over protectiveness or for his mistrust.