Sea Vixen.
Chapter 1-Of course it actually happened.
Poor Tia, she was working…again. Almost every weekend, in the summer, sometimes during school even, she would work with the maids. Cleaning up after everyone else. Five years Tia'd been there, and she was going to be working off her debt to the school for at least another year after she graduated.
"I'll make a good maid for some rich family someday. That's the only thing in my future. It's alright, don't feel sorry for me. If I didn't work during holidays, then where would I go?" That's what she always told us, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and me. She was so hardheaded that we didn't even try to convince her to stay with us during summer.
Celestia Miranda Foxx. She fit the name, which is probably why her parents named her that. Red hair, blue eyes flecked with gold and shaped like a fox's. She had a thin, agile body, and a stubborn attitude. The poor girl hardly ate, what with trying to keep up with school and working, and sleep, she would run herself ragged. We really only saw her during meals and break, if even then.
Peter and Susan only had one year left after we got back from Narnia the second time, and we were all feeling the effects of it. Tia asked us if we felt alright, first thing out of her mouth when she saw us at the front gate. Always thought of everyone and everything else before herself. After the oldest left and went to America, the war got really bad and everyone was excused from school. Even Tia had to leave. But as she had nowhere to go, she came with us to Uncle Harold and Aunt Alberta's house in Cambridge. The only bad thing about the whole affair was that we also had to share the house with our retched cousin, Eustace.
"You look like a stray cat," he told her as soon as we girls had unpacked, "If you've got fleas then don't come anywhere near me or my room."
"Eustace! That was rude." I defended her.
"It's alright, Lucy," her smile was kind, "I don't doubt I look a bit travel worn. It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Eustace. Lucy and Edmund have told me so much about you."
The look on his face said that he couldn't decide whether she was making fun of him or not.
I don't think I've ever had so much fun teasing Eutsace as when Tia was there to help me do it. Maybe that sounds wicked of me, but, oh well. What are you going to do when you have to live with the one person you despise?
After that Tia was still always working. She always found something to do around the house. If nothing could be done inside, she went outside. There was a small garden in the back, with a green house for the younger plants. I don't know how she did it. Half the time she didn't eat at lunch with us, sometimes not even breakfast, yet she always seemed to have so much energy. She got up early in the morning, and went to bed later than anyone else, after cleaning every speck out of the kitchen.
I wondered how she would like it in Narnia. But I never thought I might end up finding out.