Ok I'm back :D I worked on chapters over the weekend despite my lack of internet :D

So here's one!

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Edmund continued to tell me stories of Aslan and all that he had done for them since they had arrived in Narnia and my eyes got wider and wider and I was so immersed in the beautiful tales that I started leaning forward in my chair until my chin was resting on my hands.

"And that's how we get to this point," I heard Edmund finish the stories, "We're all assuming Aslan brought you to us as well. Unless you got here by some other route?"

"No," I replied, sitting back up, "I just passed out and when I came to I was here in Narnia."

He nodded and then leaned back into his lounging position in his chair and picked up his book. I could tell this conversation was over.

"Well, I'll let you get back to that," I said, standing to leave.

"You don't have to go," Edmund looked up at me with confused look, "I wasn't trying to be rude or ignore you. I was just going to put this back." He waved the book at me.

"Oh," I muttered sheepishly, sitting back down with my hands in my lap.

"So," Edmund called back to me from where he was placing the book back on the shelf, "How do you like Narnia so far?"

"It's wonderful," I said excitedly, "I've never even imagined such a place! It's like the air here is completely different than where I come from. The animals talk, for goodness sakes!"

He laughed and came back to sit down. He smiled at me and I took a good look at him. He was a very good looking individual, I thought, with his wavy dark hair and his pale skin and freckles across his nose and under his eyes. His eyes! Oh goodness they were beautiful! They were such a deep brown and they were so full of mischief and knowledge that I found myself getting completely lost in them.

"You have really pretty eyes," I heard him whisper.

I shook my head to clear my head. Had he just told me exactly what I had just been thinking?

"They're just blue," I muttered, "Nothing special."

He chuckled darkly.

"From the way the girls around here fawn over Peter they must have something special about them," he said, leaning back into the arm of his chair. "Seriously, have you seen him today?"

I shook my head, I hadn't seen him since practice that morning. Edmund nodded toward the window.

"Look," he stated.

I stood up and went to the window. Sure enough, Peter was brushing down a horse in the courtyard and several young ladies were standing off to the side watching him like a bunch of predators.

"Oh, come on, Edmund," I laughed, "Are you jealous?"

"Psh, no," Edmund stood up and joined me by the window, "I was just making a statement that got skewed out of proportion. Blue eyes are pretty, case closed."

"I prefer hazel," I said nonchalantly, "Or brown."

I saw him glance over at me and I tried not to smile. I snatched up a book that was laying on the windowsill and flipped it open.

"Yeah, I wish Lucy would put those back where they belong," Edmund muttered. Apparently he had a deep respect for books because every book I saw in here was in mint condition. Ah, an admirable quality.

"It's a shame how some people treat books," I agreed with him, I placed it on the mantel of the fireplace between two brass lions.

I looked back at him and caught a look of respect on his face. He was about to say something when a knock on the doorframe made us both turn and look. Susan was leaning in.

"Time for dinner," she announced. We smiled and joined Susan in our walk down to the dining hall.

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We were seated around the table eating dinner and it was relatively quiet. Peter looked like he wanted to hit something, Lucy was drawing while she ate (I saw it was a drawing of her walking hand in hand with a Minotaur…odd), Susan was too polite to break the silence, and Edmund was stuffing his face too fast to speak without choking.

So I figured it was my job to break the silence.

"So, where did you guys come from?" I asked, "Like…when and where and why?"

Susan smiled, glad to have not been the first to speak.

"We came to Narnia in the fall of 1940 from England, because we had been evacuated to the country after some nasty bombing on London," she said. "Obviously, the reason why was to take the place as the Kings and Queens of Narnia and help to defeat the White Witch."

"1940? From England?" I squeaked, I had totally forgotten the fact that they were not from my time. "So…you were right there in World War II?"

They all nodded solemnly, even Edmund stopped eating and looked at me with interest.

"Do…do you know what happened?" he asked, eyes wide.

I nodded. Of course I did!

"Let's see…since fall of 1940, which means the bombings you mentioned were just the beginning of the London Blitz,…Hitler conquered Yugoslavia and Greece and then marched into Russia…Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December seventh in 1941 and so America joined the war. The Allies then decided to take the offense and we stopped the Axis advances in North Africa, the Pacific Ocean, and Russia. Italy surrendered in 1943, Germany and Japan surrendered in 1945."

The faces of the four siblings around me were absolutely entranced by my words.

"We…we won?" Peter asked hopefully.

"Yes," I replied, "The Allies won. Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945."

"Suicide?" Edmund looked disappointed, "You mean we didn't get to hang the son of a…"

"Ed!" Susan put a stop to what may have been a nasty bit of profanity. She looked at me. "Do go on, Nakoda."

"Well, Japan didn't stop just because the European Axis members had fallen," I went on, "Finally, the Americans dropped two atomic bombs. One on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki. The outcome was horrific, no one had anticipated the amount of destruction those bombs would do, and Japan opened up peace negotiations. They finally surrendered on September 12."

Everyone's jaws were dropped. I felt weird telling these people their future at the same time I was telling my past.

"How do you know all this?" Lucy asked.

"School," I replied, "Well school and the fact that I love to read and watch old documentaries on TV."

"In school?" Peter was awed. "What year do you come from exactly?"

"Um…" it suddenly sounded very weird to admit, "I come from…2011."

The only sound in the room at the point was Peter when he began to choke on the food he had been about to swallow. Susan reached over to pat his back hard.

"Well it just turned 2011, I didn't get to see much of it before I got pulled into Narnia. I guess I came from 2010 more or less."

"What's it like?" Lucy's eyes were bright.

"Let her be," I heard Edmund mutter, "It's late. She can tell us tomorrow."

"By jove, you're right, Ed!" Peter agreed, standing up. "We all had better get some sleep. Why it's been dark for nearly two hours."

Everyone started murmuring in agreement and we all stood up to go our separate ways. But Edmund grabbed my hand and stopped me.

"You will tell us about it, won't you?" he asked, his dark eyes gleaming.

"Of course, I will," I said, not sure why he would think I wouldn't.

"Good. I thought maybe you wouldn't want us to know what it's going to be like." Then I did understand.

"I don't see why it would hurt anything," I said with a shrug, "Narnia and Earth are completely different places. Our history won't affect you."

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There's a chapter :D Next chapter will surely have some more humour due to our outlandish inventions of the 21st century!

Let me know if there is any specific inventions you think would be shocking! Review :D