Ch. 1
In fifteen years, Lucy had never once grown tired of Narnia.
It was beautiful; from the Great Eastern Ocean to Cair Paravel to the Lantern Waste.
She ruled the Kingdom with her brothers and sister, learning and growing as she did, making friends with the dryads and townspeople and merfolk.
Fifteen years was a long time, admittedly, but it was spent well.
She — and Peter, Susan, and Edmund — had undertaken an entirely Narnian education, learning about politics and history and map-drawing and magic. They'd fought battles to defend their country and their allies, they'd presided over trials of their enemies, and they'd brokered negotiations over land and titles.
But, as all good things do, their time eventually drew to a close, and the Golden Age of Narnia faded.
The chase of the White Stag lead them directly back to England. Back to childhood.
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The following year was spent in the professor's mansion, telling and retelling Narnian-year tales, and waiting to return to London.
The war didn't subside — and indeed it wouldn't for another five years — but they eventually were able to return.
Lucy and Susan enrolled in a girls' school called Saint Finlay's, while Peter and Edmund attended the corresponding boys' school. However, on the train, they were tugged back to Narnia in a whirlwind of destruction and magic.
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Their next adventure lasted only a couple of months, although it had been nearly thirteen hundred years since Narnia had last seen the Pevensies.
An age of darkness had fallen in their absence and it took the Kings and Queens of old to right it.
At the end of it all, a new leader was placed on the throne; Caspian, the Tenth.
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Back in England, the war waged on.
Things seemed to be getting worse and worse, and while Peter and Susan were allowed to join their parents in America.
Lucy and Edmund, on the other hand, had become unwilling houseguests of their even more unwilling cousin, Eustace Scrubb.
However, in true Pevensie fashion, they found themselves drawn back to Narnia by a magical painting, this time bringing Eustace along for the ride. In their absence Caspian had set out to sea in hopes of reuniting with old friends' of his father's, who'd been missing for several years.
When this task was accomplished, the travellers of the Dawn Treader — for that was the great ship upon which they sailed — found themselves at the end of the world.
Aslan the Lion told them that beyond the edge of Narnia lay His Country; the True Narnia. Heaven. Reepicheep decided that his adventure was over and gained Aslan's blessing to see His Country, but Caspian, Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace knew that their stories were not yet over.
That is where our story begins.