The stroll up the hill didn't take long and soon the two arrived at the front door. It was pine and had golden decorative pattern running all around it. The castle itself was made of a light cream coloured stone; the rocks were huge and neatly wedged together like normal bricks do. Daniel pulled a chain leaver hanging from the side of the door. The whole ground seemed to shudder and gradually the doors opened very wide and out came a man dressed in a white shirt. His trousers were bright and made of cotton and he wore a sash across his chest in the same colour his trousers were. Shaggy, long, fair hair hung loosely across his face half covering one of his bright blue eyes. He immediately looked shocked and hesitated but then smiled at them. 'Good morning, how may I help you?' he said in a startled voice.

'Do you think who ever owns this castle could find us lodgings for the night?' Daniel stepped forward.

'Certainly sir, right this way.' Jane took the invitation in and stepped inside the door frame. Inside the walls and floors shimmered, literally, they were encrusted with flakes of gold. Jane and Daniel were led straight through into a corridor where at the end they came to a large staircase made entirely of gold. The handrails were not cold like most metals and

your hand would glide along them. The two felt like they were weightless and light as air, all their tiredness completely vanished and they were now full of life and energy. After the stairs the three of them arrived at the biggest, grandest doors any human on earth would ever see. Made of a precious mineral not known to our world, the shining man rapped on the doors and from behind them came a low voice. 'Enter.' They flung open and now the children could see what was on the other side of the doors.

Inside it was a giant, grand hall with men, women, boys and girls of every age wandering around in the same attire as the man who answered the door, all laughing and chatting with one another. At the head of the room there was a raised platform where a glowing lion stood, its mane waving about in the light breeze coming through the windows, his eyes shining as bright as the sun lighting up the room. Jane gasped in amazement, 'A lion? Why is there is a lion in the room?' she thought. The butler coughed.

'These two children somehow found their way to the palace, Aslan, and looking for lodgings tonight. I know I shouldn't invite strangers in but, I couldn't say no to them.' What shocked Jane the most about his was not that they had just wandered into a palace and had been invited in welcomingly, it was the fact that the man was speaking directly to the lion.

'But of course,' the lion (whose name was Aslan) then spoke, 'Magenta; can you take care of them please?' A young woman with brunette tresses walked towards the children and held out her hands, she held them gently and led them out the room, away from the lion. The doors closed behind them and the two jumped as they shut. The woman smiled at the children and spoke to them in a calming manor as they walked to wherever they were sleeping. Jane and Daniel were led along many corridors and after passed many more doors, as Jane wondered what was behind them.

'So, erm… where did you come from?' Magenta asked.

'London, miss.' Jane politely said.

'Oh! Earth! I've never been there myself. I've heard about it, very dark place isn't it? Sorry, not meaning to sound rude.'

'No, it's fine, it is horrible! I hate it there anyway.' Daniel agreed, 'I should know! It looks much nicer here though.'

Oh, it is amazing here!' She said. Magenta stopped outside a wooden door.

'Here you go, inside you will find everything you need for your stay, how long did you say you'll stay?'

'Just the one night please, erm, will there be any expenses?' Jane asked.' Because if so-', she was cut-off.

'Not at all, you won't need to pay, don't be so silly, we don't use money here.'

'Thank you,' Daniel spoke this time. The two children entered the room and the women said goodbye and left. The bedroom had two beds and another door that led to a bathroom. The boy leapt up on to his bed, smiled, and suddenly frowned.

'Whatever is the matter Dan? I thought you love it her' Jane questioned.

'It's just; we'll have to go back to London some time! So I'm going to try and see everything in a negative way so I won't miss this place when we go, I mean, there's not even any toys! ' Jane felt a little down hearted by this but then suddenly, out of the corner of her eye she saw a wooden box tucked under his bed.

'Oh look!' She pointed under the bed, 'A box! I'm sure it weren't there before!' Daniel dragged the chest out and opened it, inside it there were many toys. Daniel grabbed the biggest and grandest looking one, which happened to be a motor car, and started to wheel around the ground. Inside the box there was a whole variety of toys; dolls which you could dress up, Jane owned many of these back in her room, building blocks, motor cars and even paints. Jane got out another car and the two had races and played "Peelers and Robbers" oh! It was such fun; they played for hours, playing with a different toy for every game.

'I like it here. I don't want to go.' He got up and looked out the window.

'Me too, but let's try and enjoy it while we can. Let's get some sleep shall we?' Jane yawned and climbed into bed, Dan did the same. 'Night.'

'Night.'

Through the whole of the night darkness never came over the land, well what do you expect when you have a ruler whose eyes shine like the sun? The bed sheets were the comfiest ever and Jane felt like she was lying on clouds. Obliviously, she had never done that before but she knew that this is what it would have felt like. She always used to lie on the hill at the back of her house and watch the clouds go by and wondering what it would like up there, at least now she knew what clouds feel like. The night was silent, not a horrible, eerie silent, but a calm, peaceful silence which was the best for sleeping. Jane was not actually too particularly tied but she felt she wanted to get back to Earth and back to her room as soon as possible and she didn't think that Daniel would actually leave with her unless he stayed there for the night. She did not want the people there to think that they could out-stay their welcome and didn't want to seem rude.

At about midnight a sudden buzz occurred in the air and Jane, being a light sleeper, woke up and heard the noise, she listened harder for a few more seconds, just wanting to check that she wasn't just hearing things, finally, she decided that she wasn't imagining it and was very inquisitive to find out what it was. She slipped off the cloud like sheets and quickly ran over to Daniel's Bedside, she shook him by the shoulders and his eyes flickered. 'What?' he murmured.

'Can you hear that?' She shook him forcefully.

'No.' He listened harder, now hearing the noise 'what is it?'

'I don't know, let's go and find out!' The two of them walked out the door and through the golden corridors, they followed the noise of the buzzing of talking and footsteps shuffling. It led them into the grand hall where the two poked their heads round the corner of the corridor before deciding what to do next. 'So, what are we going to do?' Jane inquired.

Daniel stared closely at the room for a few seconds wondering how to get in through all these white shirted and bright trouser people without getting seen. 'Okay, so we'll split up different ways to try and get a better viewing of what they're doing, meet back here when it's finished and we can tell each other what we saw, so, you go to the right, I'll go to the left.'

'Right.' The children parted to the different sides of the room. Not wanting to be seen, kept very low, nearly sliding along their stomach's, through the sea of bright trees Jane could just about managed to see what was going on. Keeping her eye on the centre, she slowly crawled round to the far right corner of the hall and sat down. Now for Daniel, he too kept low, but I mean very low! Slithering in and out of shoes, the young adolescent did in fact reach the far left corner, but much more quickly for he did not get distracted by the middle of the hall.

The whole empire was crammed into one area, they were arranged out in semi-circle, leaving a space in the middle where the lion stood with a young man next to him. 'May I introduce our newest member our kingdom, Rău!' Aslan spoke. After this announcement everyone in the room applauded the man, all except our two characters for they were still trying to get their head around what everyone was doing there. After a few moments they realised that they should be clapping and did so.

Rău stood in the middle, different from everyone else: brown curls bounced loosely just above his shoulders; his eyes were nearly as bright as Aslan's and all his clothes laced and lined with many stones such as Topaz, Jasper and Diamond. The applause died down as a new spectacle began, Aslan walked up to the man and blew on him, the man seemed to turn a whole shade lighter, his feet lifted gently off the ground and then out of nowhere a gentle gust of wind flew into the room, it was not normal wind, it sparkled and dazzled like the sun. Jane felt the power and speed on the wind increase, and then it target him a tornado of light surrounded him, the whole hall was filled with 'oohs,' and 'ahhs,' the hurricane faded away down floated the man previously but this time in a golden gown over his shoulders and a long wooden staff in his hand. 'I now pronounce you Rău, Guardian of Cloysol!' The mighty Aslan roared and the two children stole the room.