A couple days later, the government decreed that all children in England were to be sent to the countryside for safekeeping.

At the train station, many families shared emotional goodbyes before forcing to part ways, with the promise they would reunite once the war was over. Darling, Peter Pan, Eilonwy, Mowgli, and Penny were amongst those families.

Darling was helping Penny clip her train pass on her coat for their long trip. "You need to keep this on, Penny." She told her. "All right? You warm enough?"

Penny nodded.

"Good girl."

Penny tearfully embraced with her mother, reluctant about leaving her. She kept hold on her teddy bear under one of her arms.

Darling went to help Mowgli clip his train pass on, next. As she did, Mowgli glanced over a nearby poster which read: HELP THE CHILDREN - HOUSING EVACUEES IS A NATIONAL SERVICE.

"If Dad were here, he wouldn't make us go," he said with a frown.

"If Dad were here, it'd mean the war was over and we wouldn't have to go," Peter told him.

"You will listen to your brother, won't you Mowgli?" Darling said to her youngest son. She stood up to hug him goodbye, only for Mowgli to merely dodge her.

Darling seemed a bit hurt by Mowgli's resistance on saying goodbye. So, she only kissed him on the side of his head before letting him go.

She turned to Peter, who allowed his mother to embrace with him.

"Promise me you'll look after the others," whispered Darling.

"I will, Mum," Peter promised, with a crack in his voice.

Darling smiled at her eldest son, gratefully. "Good man."

Peter blinked, not feeling comfortable with being called a 'man'. He was currently beginning to come of age, but did not seem quite ready for it just yet. Still, he nodded to his mother.

Darling turned to Eilonwy last, who was doing her best to control herself. Showing sympathy for her eldest daughter, Darling lovingly embraced with her. "Eilonwy..."

Eilonwy hugged her back, sniffling on the verge of tears. She didn't want to let go of her mother.

"Be a big girl," Darling advised.

Nodding, Eilonwy eventually let Darling go.

Taking one last look at her children, Darling put on a straight face. "All right," she told them. "Off you go."

With that, the children picked up their luggage and began to take their leave for the train.

Peter held onto Penny's hand to guide her. The little girl sadly looked over her shoulder back at their mother, as she and her siblings walked away.

Eilonwy tried to help guide Mowgli, herself.

"Hey, get off," Mowgli pulled back, rejecting her assistance. "I know how to get on a train by myself!" He claimed. "Get off me!"

As they were next in line for the ticket agency, Peter noticed from the corner of his eye an army of soldiers passing by. He studied them, hoping to catch a glimpse if their father was among them.

"May I have your tickets, please?" The ticket woman said to Peter.

But Peter wasn't paying attention.

"Tickets, please?"

"Peter!" Eilonwy snatched the tickets from Peter's hand, snapping him out of his gaze. Shaking her head, Eilonwy handed the agency their tickets.

The agency woman nodded. "On you go," she told the children, and they continued on.

"Yes, thank you," Peter said to the agency woman.

"Please pay attention," Eilonwy quietly scolded Peter.

As they got closer to the train, Penny tried to get one last look at her mother among the crowd. She began to blink some tears.

"Come on, Penny," Peter knelt down to face her. "We've got to stick together, now."

But Penny began to sob.

"Everything's gonna be all right," Peter tried to assure his weeping sister. "It's gonna be fine..." he continued to lead her into the train, after Eilonwy and Mowgli.

From the crowd, many emotional parents were waving goodbye to their children aboard the train. Darling tried to peek out among them to catch a glimpse of her own children before the train could leave.

One security guard gave a wave before boarding the train, himself.

From the window, Eilonwy stuck her head outside. She looked out in the crowd to find Darling pushing her way to the front, and waved goodbye to her mother.

"Bye-bye, dear!" Darling waved back, and smiled.

Peter and Penny joined Eilonwy and the other children in waving goodbye to their beloved parents and relatives. Everyone called out as the train began to leave.

"Bye, Mum! We'll miss you! See you soon!"

"Bye!"

"We'll miss you!"

"Write to us, Mum!"

"Love you!"

The train finally headed out, taking every child aboard with it.

After the goodbyes died down, the four children headed into a compartment, where two other young boys were seating in.

Peter set their luggage up on the overhead rack. But Mowgli refused to let him help him, and put his own luggage up, himself, before sitting down.

Peter shook his head in dismay, and sat across from Mowgli and the girls.

They merely looked up at the other children; two little boys. One looked slightly younger than Mowgli, with brown hair and glasses. The other boy looked around four to five-years-old, with strawberry-blonde hair, and he, like Penny, was carrying his own teddy bear with him.

The train rode on down the countryside.


Some time later, the train arrived at a station and came to a short stop.

"Goosey Station!" announced the train driver. "Goosey Station!"

The two other boys riding with the Pevensie children left the cart, taking their luggage with them.

The four siblings watched as more children boarded off the train, ready to begin their new lives away from home.

A blow came from the train whistle, before it continued to head out.


After another long while, the train approached another station; Coombe Halt Station. It wasn't much, as it was only a small little platform with a white fence in the middle of nowhere.

This was their stop. Peter, Eilonwy, Mowgli, and Penny boarded off the train onto the secluded platform. Once they were dropped off, the train left in the distance.

Not too much sooner, they could hear an oncoming car driving by.

The children hurried off the platform to meet with it. But the driver honked the horn, and simply drove past them, as if they weren't even there.

"The Professor knew we were coming," said Eilonwy, confused.

"Perhaps," Mowgli said, checking his labels, "we've been incorrectly labeled."

Then, the children heard a call come from the same distance the car had came from.

"Come on, hup!" A voice demanded.

Up came a horse trotting, pulling a wagon behind it. Driving and herding the horse, was a woman riding in the wagon.

"And whoa," the woman gently pulled on the reins. "Whoa!"

The horse pulled up at the platform, and the woman looked down at the children. Her appearance was somewhat elderly with a stout physique. She had white hair and black eyes. Her outfit contained a dark green trench coat over a lavender dress and a white petticoat, along with a tan fascinator hat with a sheer lavender tie-on sash, and black high-heeled shoes. Hence, she seemed rather strict-looking.

"Aunt Sarah?" Peter spoke to her.

"I'm afraid so," she responded, rather coldly. Aunt Sarah examined them. "Is this then? Haven't you brought anything else?"

"No, ma'am," Peter shook his head. "It's just us."

Penny gave a small nod.

Aunt Sarah raised her eyebrows. "Small favors."

She allowed the children to climb aboard the wagon to give them a lift to their new home.

"Come on!" Aunt Sarah whipped her horse to move on, and head back down the path. "Good girl. Come on!"

Up ahead of them, was a large mansion. This was where the four siblings were to now live, until the war was over.

As Aunt Sarah led the children inside the main hallway of the mansion, she began to explain to them. "Professor Dallben is not accustomed to having children in this house. And as such, there are a few rules we need to follow." She turned around towards them, with a stern look on her face. "There will be no shoutin'. Or runnin'. No improper use of the dumbwaiter."

The children followed Aunt Sarah up the stairs. A small-looking statue in front of them caught Eilonwy's eyes. She stopped to take a look, and slowly reached her hand out to touch it.

"NO!" Aunt Sarah's voice stopped Eilonwy from doing so, "touchin' of the historical artifacts!" The woman glared at Eilonwy, who gave a sheepish nod.

"And above all," Aunt Sarah added, as the children climbed up the stairs, "there shall be no disturbin' of the Professor."

As she continued down the hallway to lead them to their room, Penny stopped for a short moment at a nearby door. Below at the crack of the door, came the shadows of two footsteps from the other side.

Gasping, Penny hurried away to catch up with her siblings.


Later that night, the children settled down in their new bedroom with the radio on.

"German aircraft carried out a number of attacks on Great Britain last night," the radio-man announced. "The raids, which lasted for several hours-"

Eilonwy went over and switched the radio off.

Penny was trying to settle in bed, holding her teddy bear tight under her arm. But she sniffled. "The sheets feel scratchy."

Peter and Eilonwy could both tell that Penny was down-hearted, and not feeling comfortable with their new life away from home. They came over to the bed in an attempt to comfort their little sister.

"Wars don't last forever, Penny," Eilonwy said with an assuring smile. "We'll be home soon."

Mowgli scoffed. "Yeah, if home's still there."

Eilonwy frowned at her brother, and shook her head. "Isn't it time you were in bed?"

"Yes, Mum!" Mowgli replied, sarcastically.

"Mowgli!" Peter raised his voice sharply to stop Mowgli from starting a quarrel.

Mowgli went silent, and sighed in annoyance.

Peter turned back to Penny. "You saw outside," he said to her. "This place is huge. We can do whatever we want here. Tomorrow's going to be great."

Penny blinked at him, unsure.

"Really," Peter tried to encourage her.

The little girl just hoped that her brother would be right.