Once a Queen

When the second War to End All Wars starts, Elise and her siblings are sent away to an old professor's mansion, where they find a wardrobe. Lucy, the youngest, claims to have found a magical land filled with all sorts of creatures inside of it. Elise wants to believe her, so she does, and when an unfortunate accident forces the Pevensie siblings to hide in the wardrobe, they find that Narnia is indeed real, but it's not as grand and beautiful as they thought. The fate of this other world lies in the hands of Elise and her siblings, but will they be able to pull through?

She was the kind of person
Who would find magic on the ground,
As though the secret to real joy
Was something left lying around.
She'd pull it out of library books,
Their pages ripped and worn,
And swore that she could see it
In the air before a storm.
If you're wary of believing
Know I'm no stranger to distrust,
Back then all I found in library books
Was the smell of moths and dust.
And despite her every promise
That each storm holds something gold,
I would wait outside for hours
And all I caught was colds.
Until she told me through her laughter
That believing is the key,
You cannot change the way the world looks
Until you change the way you see.
-E.H.

(Previously titled "The Crown in the Forest")