Written for LadyLindariel's 100 drabbles challenge. If you're interested, please PM her for the prompts. :-) Technically it's for The Lord of the Rings, but she has graciously allowed me to write it for Narnia as I'm more familiar with and able to write in that world.

Also, Cowboy-4-Christ has kindly given me permission to use his calendar in my stories. If you wish to see the full year (and our world's equivalents), you can at his profile. :)

Prompt #48 Cooking

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The smell of freshly baked goods floated though the air making Edmund lift up his head in eagerness.

"Do you think -" but he never finished what he was going to ask Peter, for at that moment Susan and Lucy came into the room bearing trays.

Peter and Edmund glanced at one another trying to remember in a split second if there was a special reason for this treat and whether they should have gotten something for their sisters. Lucy set her tray of little cakes and biscuits down upon the table, smiling gaily.

"Mrs. Beaver is teaching us how to cook." Lucy explained.

Susan set her tray of tea and honey comb next to Lucy's. "And we thought you would like to share in our cooking adventure."

"Absolutely." Edmund replied, placing his quill and ink far out of harm's way.

"When we're finished with these,"Lucy added excitedly, "We're going back to the kitchen to make soup for dinner tonight."

"You will do well." Peter was nodding his approval at the biscuit he had just taken a bite of. Both he and Edmund remembered the "cooking endeavours" the girls had attempted in the Other Place, but they both had the politeness not to mention aloud those not-so-pleasant treats. Their mother was a brilliant cook, but Susan and Lucy had never picked up on that talent. Then, a few days ago, Mrs. Beaver came to the conclusion that the Narnian Queens ought to know the basics of cookery and began giving them lessons. Therewith the endeavours began anew.

Summer was turning out to be a beautiful time of year. The Pevensies had not known what to expect (and after all, how could anything be more beautiful than the Spring they had just seen?), but Mr. Tumnus reassured them that Summer had a unique and majestic beauty of his own.

"The first Summer in a hundred years!" Mr. Tumnus was eagerly saying to Lucy one Spring evening, when her blooms were giving forth a gentle and pleasing aroma, and Mr. Tumnus and Lucy were walking together in the gardens. "Oh dear me, how splendid it'll all be. Just you wait, my Queen, we Fauns will put on the most grandest celebration you have ever seen."

Lucy reported this saying to her siblings as they chattered over biscuits and tea, and all of them wondered what this "most grandest" celebration might consist of, but not having much knowledge of Fauns and their ways, they could not even begin to guess. But nonetheless, they excitedly awaited whatever this Summer might present them.

Thus the first Narnian Summer after the Hundred Year Winter began.

Let me know what you think of it (and how I can improve!) :D