Edmund and Lucy to Peter, or

BellatrixTheStar and ScarlettCash to SouthwestExpat

Dear Peter,

We were delighted to receive your letter! I hope your studying is progressing well and am glad Professor Kirke and yourself can be of mutual assistance.

Lucy says she's sad to hear the professor's lonely and she's sure you being there means a great deal to him and she had an idea of visiting you but - *smears of ink make this bit illegible*

Apologies for the messy writing and smudging. Lucy is speaking faster than I can write and I've given up asking her to slow down. You know how she is! I would use a new sheet of paper, but Uncle Harold says that "we don't have a limitless supply". Never mind that he buys a new copy of the newspaper daily!

That aside, Lucy wanted to get tickets for the train so we can visit. I don't think we have the money, and even if we did, it's unlikely Aunt Alberta would let us go. Lucy will probably find a way; she always does. Instead of bursting her bubble, I'll just wait and see what happens. Miracles do seem to happen frequently when she's around! Or maybe that's just her strong faith?

Uh oh, Lucy's reading over my shoulder now. She says I'm writing too slowly - *more smudging*

Peter, it's Lucy now, because our dear brother can't seem to listen, yet somehow he fusses with me for him getting off track! Just he is, yet swiftness might not be his strong point. But then again, it has been some time since either of us have had to write out letters of importance. At least now we still have half the page to use by not having to list out all of your titles!

I do hope your studying is going well, I'm sure you will be Magnificent come the time of the exam. I also want to thank you for your advice about staying here. Thinking of the Scrubb's like visiting Calormen might keep us from losing our heads. I just hope that Eustace acts with more care than Rabadash or else I think that by the end of the summer Edmund may respond in turn. Thankfully, (for us or Eustace, I am unsure) our aunt and uncle have an unsurprisingly short supply of swords handy. So there will be no duel for honor. But that just means that our brother will have to be more creative...

Poor Edmund though does have to share a room with him and I am not entirely unconvinced that our cousin doesn't try to bother him more while he sleeps. But do take heart, our brother, regardless of his complaints of me speaking too fast, is doing his best to be as much like a King as one can be while stuck in a house in Cambridge with people who, as Aunt Alberta puts it, wear a 'special kind of underclothes' and refuse to let us eat meat.

You would be proud of us both for such restraint exhibited.

We are wishing you and the Professor well. And as happy as I am for you and Su, I too will be glad once our family is back together again. Until then, all our love.

Ed and Lu

P.S. Don't listen to Lucy on the likelihood of my losing my head! She makes it out like I'm a soap bubble about to burst at any moment, but as you know, my temper doesn't run that hot. Maybe keep praying for me though, since she's not entirely wrong about the trials of sharing a room with our delightful cousin.

P.S.S. Though he might not think so, it is not Edmund's temper I doubt, but rather Eustace's. Without sounding rude, you know how our cousin is, Peter.