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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qc\sl240\slmult1{\b\ul\f0\lang2057\fs40\kerning28 THE
 OTHER SIDE OF NARNIA{\fs24\par}}

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\par}

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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\i\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Once
 upon a time and long ago thousands of children were sent from their homes in the
 city for fear their country\u8217\'92s enemy was about to begin bombing it.  With
 little warning they were packed off to strangers in an often strange countryside
 where some had a wonderfully happy time exploring this new world, and some a miserable
 time of sexual and physical abuse.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\i\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Among
 the exodus was a boy called Peter, his younger brother Edmund and his sisters Susan
 and Lucy.  They were able to stay together and were billeted in the huge, quaint
, old home of a kindly but vague professor who lived there with only a stern Scottish
 housekeeper and two maids.  Exploring the rambling house the children discovered
 in a disused attic room a wardrobe which opens into the magical world of Narnia
; a land of dwarves, nymphs and giants, where animals can talk and where the evil
 White Witch is struggling with the great lion Aslan for domination of the enchanted
 land.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\i\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 As
 the only humans in Narnia Peter, his brother and sisters automatically become its
 Kings and Queens and after helping Aslan defeat the White Witch, they live there
 for many happy years and have many exciting adventures which are related in the
 so-called \u8216\'91Chronicles of Narnia{}#\u8217\'92.  However, as they grew up
 Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund had some adventures to experience and a voyage of
 discovery to make which the original chronicler recorded but did not think it appropriate
 to publish.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\i\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 This
 is that other Chronicle.....{\b\i0\ul\par}}

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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\b\ul\f0\lang2057\fs32\kerning28
CHAPTER 1{\b0\ulnone\par}}

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}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
, High King of Narnia and Lord of the Western Marches etc, walked gingerly to the
 edge of the grassy dell and stretched legs and arms that were stiff and aching 
after two days in the saddle.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93Well?  Where is everybody?\u8221\'94 he asked his similarly creaking escort 
generally.  {}#\u8220\'93Are you sure this is the place?{}#\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes, Your Majesty.{}#\u8221\'94  The fawn who had been their guide into up to
 the edge of the forest where it broke like a green wave against the ramparts of
 Narnia{}#\u8216\'91s Western Mountains, appeared fawning at his side. \u8220\'93
This is the Dell of the Dryad{}#\u8216\'91s Spring Dance.{}#\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93Well where are they then?{}#\u8221\'94 Peter demanded.  It had been a difficult
 and uncomfortable two day journey from his capital at Cair Paravel in response 
to the request of the Dryads that the High King attend their Spring Festival, and
 the least they could have done, he grumbled to himself, was to be there to meet
 him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Your Majesty,\u8221\'94 The fawn appeared to be under the impression that the
 king was blaming him personally and wilted even more.  {}#\u8220\'93The Dryads 
will not leave the trees until moonrise.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93Oh.{}#\u8221\'94  Peter would have sworn had he been able but as he had not 
known how to when he had arrived in Narnia as a fourteen-year-old boy and as no-
one had seen fit to teach the High King of Narnia how to swear in the nine months
 since his coronation, he had no stronger word in his vocabulary than, \u8220\'93
Hell.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
let his escort of centaurs, talking horses and bears all armed to the teeth with
 whatever weaponry best suited them, set up camp in a clearing not far from the 
dell while he looked about him.  It was certainly a spectacular spot.  Towering 
over him to the west, behind which the sun was sinking, were the snow-clad peaks
 of the Western Mountains while to the East, already dim in the shadows of the mountain
, the great forest sloped away in a carpet of wild greenness to the edge of Narnia
{}#\u8216\'91s plains and fertile river valleys. Cair Paravel on the coast was beyond
 the horizon but would, Peter knew, be visible as an ivory dot on the edge of the
 shining sea were he to make the impossible climb to the tops of the mountains behind
 him, for their glittering peaks were just visible from Cair Paravel on a clear 
day.  It was a stunning view but Peter had no time for it as he walked restlessly
 down into the dell looking for something, preferably soft and furry, to kick.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
had been aware of a growing tension in him for some time but did not know what it
 was.  He had felt it the previous spring when he had still been a schoolboy in 
England, and had discovered that playing with his prick until it grew stiff and 
hard, and then rubbing it until it squirted out some creamy white liquid not only
 caused delightful sensations in his body but went some way towards easing those
 tensions.  He did it often in the privacy of his privy in Cair Paravel but had 
no idea what it was he was doing and as High King did not like to ask any of the
 talking animals that surrounded him and supposedly advised  him, what the sticky
 white fluid was.  There were certainly no doctors for humans in Narnia he could
 talk to about it and as he had a vague memory from his days as a boy in England
 that pricks were not something polite people talked about let alone fondled, he
 kept the whole matter to himself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 need in him to sneak off into the woods and rub his prick until the white stuff
 squirted out was intense but as High King he didn\u8217\'92t get the opportunity
 to sneak off anywhere and he was well aware that his escort would not let him out
 of their sight this far from Cair Paravel.  He could, of course, order them to 
leave him alone but there was always the chance this close to the mountains that
 gnomes or trolls might be lurking in the woods nearby while news had reached him
 that the White Witch had been seen again in Narnia.  Her powers had been largely
 broken by her previous defeat by Aslan, the great golden lion who was Narnia\u8217
\'92s protector, but it would be foolish to make a present of himself to her by 
abandoning his guard.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 a groan he swung on his heel and walked out of the dell angrily, in search of something
 to eat.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Dusk
 gathered slowly around the dell in the lee of the mountains with the pressure and
 need to do something growing in the King, who was acutely aware that he had no 
idea what that something was.  Night was slow in falling and the idea of having 
to watch some kind of Spring Dance by the Dryads and Satyrs was beginning to appal
 Peter, who was itching to fight and hopefully kill something.  Only something that
 needed killing for Narnia{}#\u8216\'91s good, of  course.   Buerroc, his Chief 
Advisor for the month (Buerroc was a Talking Badger but the early squabbling about
 which species of talking animal would provide his Chief Advisor had been resolved
 when Susan, his clever sister, had suggested they rotate the post), had told him
 that the Dryads were the spirits of the trees and emerged from the living wood 
to take human form only in honour of the Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve who nominally
 ruled them, and then only for this dance.  Satyrs were...well, Berroc had been 
rather vague about what Satyrs were, apart from mumbling something about Satyrs 
and trees being like bees and roses, which had made little sense to Peter.  Spring
 Dances had already been held in Cair Paravel and usually consisted of young lambs
, kids or fawns skipping and cavorting on a lawn somewhere with ribbons around their
 necks.  His sisters High Queen Susan and Queen Lucy went soppy at the sight but
 Peter was well aware that he could live without it and only attended because it
 was an obligation which went with the Crown.  He knew in his heart he had only 
agreed to attend the Dryads{}#\u8217\'92 dance because it would get him out of the
 Palace for a few days and give him something to do.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28  A 
small, light throne was set up for him on the edge of the dell under a canopy to
 keep the dew off the royal person and half his escort vanished into the woods to
 form a loose skirmish line around it.  When, finally, full night fell and the first
 silver glow of the moon appeared behind the high peaks Peter, twitching and quivering
 with a need for he knew not what, seated himself for the performance.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93What happens?{}#\u8221\'94 he snapped at the Badger hovering at his side.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93Your Majesty, I know not,{}#\u8221\'94 the animal cringed. \u8220\'93No-animal
 has seen the Spring Dance that I know of, and with your permission I will withdraw
 for it is not proper that I see it now.{}#\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh.  As you wish,{}#\u8221\'94 Peter conceded, well aware that a very strict
 set of protocols existed between the various species of his subjects as to who 
was allowed to witness what. Gratefully the animal backed bobbing away and Peter
 noticed that the visible part of his escort had arranged itself around the edge
 of the dell in a rough circle and was standing facing the wood as if it, too, was
 ostentatiously refusing to see anything that might happen within the dell.  At 
its centre stood a wide, smooth-topped tree-stump little more than knee-high to 
the King, and it reminded Peter unpleasantly of the Stone Table on which Aslan had
 been sacrificed by the White Witch when he and his sisters had first arrived in
 Narnia and which, he had since discovered, had been the focus of many dark and 
bloody deeds over the years.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 King
 Peter fidgeted uncomfortably in his seat and waited for something to happen, bitterly
 regretting that he had ever agreed to attend the ceremony, although he had found
 out very soon after his Coronation that being High King was in truth very largely
 a matter of doing what was expected of him whether he wanted to or not.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 night cooled and grew still apart from the occasional distant cry of a night creature
 in the woods.  Then, just as Peter was about to give the whole thing up as a bad
 job and get drunk on the Narnian beer he was still trying to get to like, in order
 to smother the itch that seemed to be right in his blood, the moon rose over the
 peaks behind him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Its
 silver light flooded across the vast landscape before him and shimmered on the 
top of the sea of trees. Despite himself Peter was impressed and settled himself
 down to watch.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 As 
the moon rose the light grew stronger until the forest seemed to be glowing with
 it, a radiance that was being absorbed by the wood until the trees edging the dell
 shone as though the light was being concentrated in the timber which burned cold
 silver with it.  Then, before Peter\u8217\'92s eyes, a figure flowed out of one
 of the nearest trees and took shape.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
was a woman with hair like a waterfall lit by moonlight falling past her shoulders
 and her body wrapped in silver cobwebs.  She ran gracefully down into the dell 
like a flow of water  and then glided up the slope towards Peter to stop just in
 front of him where she bowed deeply onto one knee.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93Greetings, Son of Adam,{}#\u8221\'94 she said in a voice like the rustle of 
wind in a tree. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93Er. Uhm.{}#\u8221\'94 Peter choked.  Just before the Dryad had folded herself
 up like a closing bud before him he had seen her breasts draped but in no way hidden
 by the veils clinging to her body, and the effect on him had been like getting 
kicked over the heart by a Centaur.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 had never seen a woman\u8217\'92s naked breasts before (apart from his mother{}
#\u8216\'91s, when he had been far too young to notice) and the Dryad\u8217\'92s
 were stunning, two firm globes of smooth, pillowed skin topped with tiny, distinct
 dark discs.  In an instant the vague  urges and needs that had been troubling him
 for so many months focussed into a powerful demand by his body to touch and hold
 the Dryad{}#\u8216\'91s breasts, to know their shape and softness, to crush them
 against his heart.  His prick, already uncomfortably stiff in his trousers, pulsed
 erect and throbbed to his heart-beat and he knew a fierce, almost uncontrollable
 urge to get it out of his trousers and pump the white liquid he could feel gathering
 at its root into the silvered air so that it sprayed over the Dryad, the dell and
 the trees.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 Dryad uncoiled herself and stood. Peter, unable to take his eyes from her breasts
, fought down the urge to fling himself on her and tried again to speak.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Er. Yes. Hello,{}#\u8221\'94 he gasped stupidly.  The Dryad, poised gracefully
 on the balls of her feet as though for flight, regarded him for a moment with a
 knowing smile and then said, {}#\u8220\'93Our dance is the dance of rebirth and
 renewal.  We welcome the High King.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 managed to tear his eyes from her breasts and refocus on her entirety.  She was
 no taller than he was and as slim as a birch with long shapely legs and a body 
like a wisp of smoke.  He could not attempt to guess her age, save that he would
 have said she was older than his elder sister{}#\u8216\'91s thirteen, - no, she
 had turned fourteen since they{}#\u8216\'91d been in Narnia - but nothing like 
as old as his half-forgotten mother and yet her eyes, which regarded him calmly 
for a moment, seemed older and wiser than anyone he had ever met.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93We are honoured that it falls to us to set you on the path,{}#\u8221\'94 she
 said softly and then, before a baffled Peter had a chance to ask {}#\u8220\'93what
 path?{}#\u8221\'94 she was gone, cascading down the slope of the dell like a fall
 of leaves before a wind.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720\ri-53{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
Peter\u8217\'92s heart was thumping painfully in his chest and his hands gripped
 the arms of his chair tightly.  Her going felt as if she had grabbed him by the
 prick and dragged it with her.  She had, he had noticed just as she turned away
, no prick herself.  Where his prick and skin-bag containing the two funny lumps
 hung on him she had just a smooth curve of body between her legs in which he was
 convinced he had seen a crevice or slit.  Yet in the shadowed moonlight it was 
difficult to be sure and in any case who was to say how a Dryad, a wood nymph, a
 creature of spirit and moonlight, would or should be  made.  Yet the sight of the
 nymph\u8217\'92s breasts and that lovely pouting curve were her legs divided from
 her body had fired Peter\u8217\'92s blood in a powerful and new way and had left
 him quivering with tension and breathing heavily on his throne.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720\ri-53{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
Moonlight appeared to be pouring into the dell as more Dryads emerged from the trees
 and, ignored by the ring of centaurs and talking horses, flowed into its bowl like
 fireflies in the night. All were dancing in silence, a shimmering, very individual
 flow of movement that nevertheless appeared to be building into an incredibly complex
 whole which needed no music but was rather the expression of a coruscation of energy
 with the stump at the centre of the dell as its focus.  It was impossible to count
 the numbers as they flowed around and among each other, never touching or even 
combining in any obvious way, except to say that the dell seemed neither crowded
 nor empty.  Sometimes one or another would pass close to Peter, wrapped in the 
pattern of her own and the larger dance, and the sight would add fire to the burning
 of his blood.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720\ri-53{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
For some were naked and the rest clothed only in thin veils of moonlight that streamed
 from their limbs.  All were individuals for a moment as his gaze drank in their
 proud, silver-sheened breasts, skated on the curving sweeps and plains of their
 stomachs and hips, caught glimpses of that crack like a mouth between their legs
 and slid down the smooth tapers of their legs to the ground.  Then they were gone
, lost in the swirl of the silent dance as another took her place.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565\ri-53{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
Some were obviously very young, no more than shoulder high to Peter and as thin 
as willow wands with tiny, pouting breasts or hardly any breasts at all, while others
 were clearly mature with full, proud breasts and deeply curved waists, hips and
 thighs.  And all, Peter was sure, had a crack in the cup of their bodies between
 their legs where his prick and bag hung.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 All
 the figures swirling in the dell were women or girls - or, rather, were Dryads 
in the forms of women and girls, he told himself for Buerroc had warned him that
 wood nymphs were really just the spirits of the trees capable of assuming any form
.  Yet how had he known they were all women and girls?  He had known that women 
had breasts and men didn\u8217\'92t, although to him breasts were just soft cushions
 which filled the fronts of women{}#\u8216\'91s dresses.  Yet some of the figures
 in the dell didn{}#\u8216\'91t have breasts or, at least, didn\u8217\'92t have 
anything more than he did on his chest.  Up until that moment he had thought, without
 having thought about it, that women and girls were women and girls because they
 wore skirts and dresses, just as boys and men were boys and men because they wore
 trousers.  Yet the girls dancing in the dell weren{}#\u8216\'91t wearing skirts
 or dresses, or anything at all, and some didn{}#\u8216\'91t have breasts -  yet
 he had known somehow they were girls and not boys.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Because
 they were different from him, and every other boy he knew.  Their bodies were a
 different shape, different in small ways perhaps - lighter looking, slimmer and
 more fragile - and they all had that crack between their legs instead of a prick
 and a bag.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 In 
a single moment Peter{}#\u8216\'91s world turned upside down.  Girls were not girls
 because they wore dresses.  They wore dresses because they were girls, and they
 were girls because they had that crack between their legs instead of a prick and
 a skin bag.  Girls were not just boys who happened to like playing with dolls and
 so were put in dresses by grown-ups, women were not just men with soft lumps on
 their chests they had to wear dresses to fit around.  Girls and women were fundamentally
 different from boys and men, and the difference was for some reason singing in 
his blood like the sip of best Narnian cherry brandy he had incautiously taken one
 sip of and which had taken his voice away and made his eyes water for an hour.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 King
 Peter sat transfixed in his temporary throne, stunned by the seismic shift still
 settling down within him, and felt a change come over the wood that seemed to echo
 yet was in no way part of the shift in him.  A tension grew which seemed to fill
 the air to overflowing and fill the dell with static electricity that arced in 
invisible currents between the wildly, silently dancing Dryads and the ground beneath
 them, and it was the same tension Peter had been feeling building in him for so
 long and which was now boiling in his blood and tingling in his skin until he felt
 he was going to explode.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 A new
 shape slid into the dance, materialising out of the darkness between the trees 
beyond the dell and darting among the wildly cavorting Dryads.  It was a fawn, goat
 from the waist down and man from the waist up apart from two small horns and goat
-like ears, yet this was no fawn like the Mr. Tumnus Peter{}#\u8216\'91s sister 
Lucy had encountered on her first visit to Narnia, timid, polite and delicate.  
This creature seethed with fiery energy and blatantly sported a great rod-like prick
 projecting upwards and out of its hairy thighs.  A satyr.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 More
 joined it, whirling furiously amongst the dance of the Dryads, somehow without 
disturbing it.  Sometimes one would seize a nymph from behind and spin her around
, its great prick thrust between her legs and sticking out in front of her almost
 as though it were her own. Others, wielding their pricks like truncheons would 
beat a dryad with it as she flitted past, slapping her on the buttocks or across
 the front of her thighs with it.  Before Peter\u8217\'92s amazed eyes some would
 even effortlessly spring clean over a frolicking dryad and slap her in the face
 with it.  Stunned breathless, heart pounding and with his own prick stiffer than
 it had ever been, aching with need and feeling huge in his breeches, Peter watched
 unbelieving.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 whirling, spinning, leaping and capering figures in the moonlight in the dell gyrated
 ever faster in the moonlight until Peter\u8217\'92s head reeled and trying to watch
 any individual nymph or satyr was like trying to follow the course of a bubble 
in a whirlpool.  Then, just as it threatened to become unbearable and the tension
 pulsed on the edge of an cataclysmic explosion, it stopped in a moment that felt
 like flash of invisible lightning and soundless crash of a thunderclap within the
 dell itself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 was panting and quivering, hardly aware of who or where he was.  Somehow he had
 freed his prick from its encumbering clothes and it was standing boldly out of 
his thighs as he sat on the throne.  Nothing like as long or thick as those of the
 satyrs it nevertheless throbbed and pulsed with eagerness both in time to the painful
 pounding of his heart and to some huge other heart beneath the earth itself the
 beats of which quivering in the ground, the air around him and the moonlight.  
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 dance had stopped in an instant, every figure in the dell becoming frozen like 
a statue in the moonlight, yet somehow the interrupted pattern of the dance had 
left a clear path from King Peter across the stump at the centre of the dell and
 out the other side to a tall, lush-leaved, beautifully proportioned tree he could
 not have named, although in truth there were few trees in Narnia\u8217\'92s woods
 he could have put a name to.  His gaze was drawn to it by the path as though by
 the flight of an arrow, and as he watched a girl emerged from it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 did not come out of a door in its trunk or slide out of a crack or crevice in its
 bark.  She formed out of the living wood itself and glided soft-footed along the
 path straight towards Peter.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Susan?\u8221\'94 High King Peter breathed in disbelief as the figure came close
 enough for its features to be visible, for the face it bore was that of his elder
 sister, High Queen Susan of Narnia.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 And
 it, too, was naked apart from tenuous veils of moonlight that clung like mist to
 its limbs.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 had never seen his sister undressed yet the figure approaching him had his sister
{}#\u8216\'91s height and general shape, and he wondered if the nymph had recreated
 his sister{}#\u8216\'91s body as faithfully as it had adopted her face.  Delicate
, firm little breasts each of which he could have covered with a hand budded on 
her chest while between her legs ran that smooth, empty curve broken only by that
 inexplicable slit.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93Wha...?{}#\u8221\'94 he breathed helplessly as the figure came to a halt in 
front of him and folded into a deep curtsy, his sister\u8217\'92s straight ash-blond
 hair falling like a silver waterfall across her shoulders in the moonlight.  Susan
{}#\u8216\'91s round, pretty face looked up at him although all he wanted to see
 were those unbelievable mounds on her chest, accentuated into pouting peaks by 
the low bow.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93I took thy sister the High Queen{}#\u8216\'91s form to honour her,{}#\u8221\'94
 the figure explained in Susan\u8217\'92s voice.  {}#\u8220\'93But if it displease
 Your Majesty I will take another.{}#\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93Wha...?  No.  That is, I{}#\u8216\'91m very pleased,{}#\u8221\'94 Peter stammered
.  Was this what Susan looked like with no clothes on?  The sight had slammed into
 him like a cannon-ball.  He wanted to wrap his eyes around every part of it.  He
{}#\u8216\'91d seen his sister practically every day for as long as he could remember
, for she\u8217\'92d grown up with him and she had become as familiar as part of
 the furniture.  Until this....\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 Dryad unfolded herself.  {}#\u8220\'93I am Ammara, Queen of the Trees,{}#\u8220
\'93she said softly.  {}#\u8220\'93With the High King{}#\u8216\'91s consent I will
 receive the seed of Adam and with it fertilise the forests of Narnia once again
.{}#\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 stared at her blankly.  The seed of Adam?  He hadn{}#\u8216\'91t brought any seed
 with him.  No-one had mentioned it.  And the only time he had ever fertilised anything
 was when he\u8217\'92d helped his mother spread some old horse-muck around the 
roses in the front garden of their home in London.  Spreading muck around the forests
 of Narnia was hardly a job for its High King.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Come, Lord,{}#\u8221\'94 the nymph urged, offering him a hand.  \u8220\'93The
 moon speeds.{}#\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Bemused
 and suddenly acutely aware of his prick sticking out in front of him and the looseness
 of his breeches around his hips Peter took the hand.  A jolt like sweet electricity
 passed from it and seemed to boil the hot pool of white liquid that was gathered
 at the base of his prick and yeaning to burst from it with such delightful outpourings
.  He was suddenly afraid that it was going to start squirting out of him all over
 the Queen of the Dryads which, he thought wildly, would hardly gain him ten out
 of ten for diplomacy. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Gently
 she drew him into the dell and down to the stump at its centre, Peter stumbling
 slightly and wondering with a sudden terror if the Dryad was suddenly going to 
produce a knife from somewhere within the clothes she wasn{}#\u8216\'91t wearing
 and sacrifice him like one of the millions of lambs that had apparently had their
 throats cut in sacrifice in pre-Aslan days. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 As 
they reached the stump his naked sister, her astonishing body white in the moonlight
 turned to him.  No, it was the Queen of the Dryads, he told himself firmly and 
braced himself to yell for his bodyguard at her first threatening move, although
 they would have to cut their way through the crowd of motionless dryads and satyrs
 in order to reach him.  To his relief the nymph gracefully lowered herself to sit
 on the edge of the stump.  Then she reached out and took his prick in her hand.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 At 
her soft, gentle touch he went rigid and the pool of boiling white cream in his 
loins nearly exploded from him.  Drawing him towards her his sister  - no, the nymph
 Queen - spread her legs wide and lay back on the top of the stump.  As her legs
 opened so, too, did the slit in her body between them, like a mouth, though all
 the detail of what lay within it was lost in the shadows.  Powerless to do anything
 but follow her urgings Peter let the Dryad draw him between her legs, his prick
 pointing into the slit between them.  Her hand softly encircling his rigid, throbbing
 prick gently drew him to close the inches between it and her body until its bulging
 red helmet pressed against her.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 And
 onwards, into her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
felt something like a mouth close around his penis and soft, wet fire enfold it.  
Her hand released him and she stretched her arms above her head in triumph on the
 moon-slicked surface of the stump as he kept going of his own volition, burying
 more and more of his prick into her through that slit between her legs.  His body
 bumped against hers with the full length of his prick buried in her flesh like, 
it seemed, as dagger bathed in the hot softness of her blood yet the nymph arched
 her body off the stump and pressed herself to him as though seeking to bury even
 more of him into her body, her legs wrapping themselves around his waist as though
 to stop him pulling out of her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Yet
 he did, nearly all the way, only to stab her again and again with his prick.  Each
 stab sent cascades of exquisite pleasure burning out of his prick into every corner
 of his body satisfying and sating the cravings that had been building there for
 all those long months kept only partly fulfilled by his own rubbing at his prick
 until the cream spurted.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 To 
each stab his sister writhed on the stump like a sacrificial victim under the knife
 but he knew somehow it was not pain she was experiencing but rather ecstasy to 
match his own.  He held her by the hips and waist to steady her against the hammer
-blows of his groin against hers and which jolted her whole body on the silver-shining
 wood.  Susan thrust her little breasts at him, grinding her groin against his and
 with that mouth between her legs sucking and pulling frantically at his prick.  
Her face was twisted as though in pain, mouth wide and gasping, yet Peter knew she
 wanted more and strained his heart to bursting to give it to her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 boiling cream in his loins poured like lava down his prick and exploded into his
 sister\u8217\'92s body in great white-hot jets, each gout sending cascades of pure
 delight along every nerve in his body and overwhelming every sense with sheer pleasure
.  One, two, three, his body almost too weak to hold the sensation within it.  \par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh, SUSAN,{}#\u8221\'94 he heard himself cry and it was only his hands on his
 sister\u8217\'92s waist before him that prevented him folding into a crumpled heap
 between her legs as his knees almost gave way.  {}#\u8220\'93Oh Susan,{}#\u8221
\'94 he gasped again as the last weakening jets of his cream spurted into her.  
{}#\u8220\'93Oh Susan,{}#\u8221\'94 he breathed as the final dregs of his cream 
trickled hotly out of his prick inside her body.  \u8220\'93Oh gosh.{}#\u8221\'94
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 world steadied and he gathered the reins of his body back in his hands.  He was
 panting as though he had just finished a long-distance run and he could feel sweat
 bathing his skin and dripping off his face.  His prick was still buried in his 
sister\u8217\'92s body and twitching as it found yet more droplets of cream to pump
 into her, except that he remembered it wasn{}#\u8216\'91t his sister{}#\u8216\'91
s body.  It was her face soft with joy looking up at him from the shiny surface 
of the stump and it might or might not be what his sister\u8217\'92s body looked
 like in the silver light and soft grey shadows of the moon, but it was the Queen
 of the Dryads he had squirted his cream into, not his sister.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93Oh,{}#\u8221\'94 he said to her in the gasp which was all he could manage.  
She smiled back at him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28{}#\u8220
\'93You are bounteous, Son of Adam,{}#\u8221\'94 she said gratefully.  \u8220\'93
And your seed is strong.  The forests of Narnia will bloom because of you.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Eh?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Your task here is done.  Return to your seat and share the rest of the night
 with us or return to your pavilion and sleep, as you wish.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 However
 politely, he recognised he was being dismissed.  In no condition to argue he weakly
 slipped his already softening prick out of the nymph and turned away from her.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 At 
some point the frozen statues of the nymphs and satyrs had thawed and gathered closely
  around the stump as though to be as near as possible to what had happened on it
.  A narrow path, though, had been left for him and he tottered wearily up it to
 fall exhausted into his throne.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Below
 him in the dell he saw in the moonlight that a satyr had taken his place between
 his sister{}#\u8216\'91s - no, the Queen of the Dryads\u8217\'92 legs - with its
 long pole of a penis buried on her body. As he watched the satyr withdrew it and
 sprang away as another jumped to take its place, its penis disappearing into the
 mouth between the Queen{}#\u8216\'91s legs.  The satyr which had previously been
 inside the Queen stood poised motionless for a moment and then leapt on a Dryad
, bearing her to the ground and sliding its pole into the mouth between her legs
 before they had stopped rolling.  A moment later the satyr which had followed him
 into the Queen was roughly tussling another Dryad to the ground and forcing its
 way between her legs to lie on her with its bottom jerking up and down between 
her knees.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 As 
the moon climbed higher and higher satyr after satyr plunged its penis into the 
body of the Dryad Queen, still in the form of Queen Susan lying motionless and open
 to them on the stump, and then sought out and stabbed a Dryad with it between her
 legs.  Each satyr in turn seemed to grab whatever nymph happened to be available
 and while there appeared to be little in the nature of co-operation from the Dryads
, Peter saw none actively try to avoid their fate either.  Although each satyr seemed
 to do little more than dip its penis in the Queen and then withdraw to jump on 
a Dryad, once it had its prick in one it often seemed to spend a considerable time
 stabbing her with it until springing to its hooves and joining the crowd of satyrs
 waiting their turn for the Queen again, leaving the nymph lying sprawled legs-spread
 on the ground to slowly gather herself together and climb weakly to her feet, sometimes
 to be jumped on again almost immediately. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Still
 breathing heavily from his exertions, weary to the bone and unable to think about
 what had just happened to him King Peter watched the scene in the dell for a while
 in the moonlight as nymphs, often tousled and looking as drained as himself, wandered
 about somewhat aimlessly amid the busy satyrs pounding away at nymphs spread-eagled
 on the ground underneath them.  When it became apparent that things were going 
to go on in this vein for a while if not for the rest of the night, when he became
 aware from the stirring in his loins and a quivering in his weary prick that the
 activities of the satyrs he was seeing were rousing him again, and as it was strangely
 disturbing to see his sister lying naked on the stump as satyr after satyr stepped
 from a never-diminishing pool waiting their turn to dip their pricks into the mouth
 between her legs, even if he knew it  wasn\u8216\'91t really his sister, he staggered
 unsteadily from his throne across the moonlit grass to his pavilion, crawled onto
 the couch which served as a bed and dropped into a deep, exhausted, satisfied sleep
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi565{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\ul\f0\lang2057\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 2\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      Peter
, High King of Narnia, rode towards the shining towers of Cair Paravel without a
 glance at the beautiful white castle amid its green spring meadows against a fresh
 blue sky.  His escort of Centaur guards trailed along behind him, hooves clattering
 on the cobbles of the Great Road which bisected the Kingdom while his attendants
 of fawns and talking badgers and dogs clustered around his horse's flanks glancing
 worriedly at each other as they speculated on what was so troubling their Son of
 Adam.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      It was
 the memory of the Queen of the Dryads in the form of his elder sister, drawing  
his stiff willy into that extraordinary mouth between her legs and practically sucking
 that slimy white cream-stuff from him into her body which was occupying Peter.  
Over and over he replayed the memory, that wonderful sensation of her hot hole sucking
 at him and the delightful tingling of each squirt of that creamy fluid into her
, and each time he recalled it his willy seemed to grow even stiffer in his breeches
 and the remembered electric tingling rushed even more powerfully up and down his
 spine.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      He was
 still not entirely clear what had happened.  Clearly whatever it was had been what
 was intended to happen as none of his Centaur guards had intervened when the Dryad
 had wrapped herself around him, manhandled his Royal Person and impaled herself
 on him while afterwards the only thing Buerroc his talking badger Chamberlain would
 say about it was the express pleasure that what he called {\lang5129\u8216\'91}
the King's seeding of Narnia' had been a success.  Obviously his {\lang5129\u8216
\'91}seeding{\lang5129\u8217\'92} was in some essential way involved with the Dryad
's 'Ceremony of Re-birth' which would result in the first growth of seedlings all
 across Narnia for the first time after the many years it had been without a Son
 of Adam as King, but Buerroc{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s"61s obvious reluctance to talk
 about it and Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s own desire not to appear ignorant had 
effectively prevented his discovering very much more during the course of an increasingly
 frustrating procession back to the castle.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Yes," Buerroc had told him. "You will be required to do this again next
 year, and for each year thereafter while you are King and able,"  but the thought
 of having to wait a whole year to repeat the experience of feeling his willy slide
 once more into the Dryad's body and having her suck his white cream from him was
 almost unbearable, for the experience had been far more enjoyable than when making
 the cream spurt from his willy on his own.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      "Dethanor
.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  He recognised the inevitable and summoned his personal Centaur
 guard to his side{\lang5129\u8221\'94}I would speak privately with you.{\lang5129
\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      Obediently
 the others around him fell back out of earshot as the massive horse-man trotted
 to his side.  "Sire?" enquired the creature eagerly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      High
 King Peter was usually reluctant to admit ignorance, even to himself, and Dethanor
, who had seen him make so many mistakes and had quietly helped him correct them
 during his nine months on Narnia's throne, was the only person he felt able to 
confess anything to.  "What did happen back there, with the Dryads?" he asked.  
{\lang5129\u8220\'93}All this business about {\lang5129\u8216\'91}seed'.{\lang5129
\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      If you
 didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t look at the powerful body of the horse from which Dethanor
's body seemed to grow like a neck, you could pretend it was just a man you were
 talking to - a handsome, broad-shouldered, powerfully muscled man who feared nothing
 and could kill virtually anything with bow, sword or steel-tipped hoof without 
blinking an eye.  He gave Peter a considering look.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}When my Liege first arrived in Narnia to assume his throne," he said 
in a low rumble, "He had, what, fourteen years upon him?" Peter nodded.  Fourteen
 and a big bit, actually, so that he was now fifteen-and-a-half.  Susan, his elder
 sister, had been thirteen-and-a-small bit and was now only just fourteen while 
the twins Edmund and Lucy had only been eleven and still were. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Hummmm."  The Centaur seemed ill at ease with the subject.  "With that
 many years most creatures, even Centaurs, have long been mature and bringing forth
 young of their own yet you, perhaps, were still too young?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      "Yes
.  Only grown-ups get married and have babies{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Peter agreed.  
{\lang5129\u8220\'93}I was still a boy.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Yet no longer, it seems," the Centaur observed.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}For the Ceremony of Re-birth was a success, and you therefore must have produced
 the necessary seed.  Buerroc wished to delay the Ceremony another year at least
, fearing you were still too young as a Son of Adam to produce seed, but the Drui
 declared you were ready and insisted."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      "Seed
?" exclaimed Peter.  The Drui were some sort of male equivalent of the Dryad but
 did not inhabit trees themselves, merely wandering the woods as spirits watching
 over them.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      "All
 males when they are grown contain seed which, when placed in the female of the 
species, may cause her to quicken and bring forth young,"  Dethanor explained somewhat
 distantly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      Peter
 had noticed before the tenancy of most of Narnia's speaking creatures to talk like
 the Bible, but as the Bible was one of only two books actually existing in the 
land he supposed it was hardly surprising.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      "I have
 the seeds of trees in me?{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Peter exclaimed, confused.  The 
Centaur gave him a sideways look.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      "I suspect
 not," he admitted.  "Your seed, placed in a Daughter of Eve, would cause her to
 bring forth another of your kind.  A human child. But in the Covenant of the Land
 your Royal Seed is also what is needed to bring fertility to the Woods and Forests
 without which Narnia would perish."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      Was 
the cream that spurted from his willy when he stroked it seed?  It didn't look like
 seed, but the Dryad had seemed happy enough with it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}This seed....?" he asked carefully.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}A white liquid in which is condensed the spirit of the species." Dethanor
 said loftily.  Peter, to whom 'condensed' meant condensed milk which was indeed
 a bit like what squirted out of his willy, nodded as though he understood.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      "Is 
there anything else I am required to seed?" he asked hopefully.  The Centaur looked
 straight ahead.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      "Any
 female in the land would be honoured to receive the King's seed,{\lang5129\u8221
\'94} he said firmly.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}But I do not think it is required by
 the Covenant.  Narnia is the fertility of its forests and fields which is brought
 forth by the potency of the King's Seed - the seed of a Son of Adam.  Apart from
 the Queen of the Dryads at the Ceremony of Re-birth the proper place for the seed
 of a Son of Adam is in a Daughter of Eve."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      The 
breath froze in King Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s throat.  He could feel the seed
 inside him, tingling hotly in his blood and squeezed to bursting in his willy. 
According to Dethanor the only proper place for it to go was into a Daughter of 
Eve, except that there were only two Daughters of Eve in all of Narnia.  His sisters
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      Could
 he squirt his seed into his sisters?  Should he squirt his seed into his sisters
?  Was he perhaps even expected to squirt his seed into his sisters? How would he
 go about squirting his seed into his sisters even if he should?  Did they have 
mouths between their legs like the Dryad or were they completely different, for 
although the Queen of the Dryads had taken his sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s form
 he was still not certain how accurate the copy had been?  He was desperate to know
, and yet could not bring himself to ask the Centaur any of those questions.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      Denthenor
 had suggested that any female in the land would be willing to let him squirt his
 seed into them and as he was their High King Peter supposed that was so, but if
 he had little enough idea how he would go about squirting it into his sisters he
 had no idea at all how he would go about squirting it into any of the talking animals
 which were his subjects for even though they talked, they were still animals.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      Urgent
 and uncomfortable with the need to squirt his seed into something even if it was
 just his hand in the privacy of his room as usual, High King Peter rode through
 the cheering crowds of talking animals thronging the streets of the Lower Town 
at Cair Paravel with only the briefest of acknowledgements.  At the Great Gate to
 the castle most of the escort peeled away leaving only Peter, Dethanor and the 
king's personal attendants to enter the Great Court.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28     Across
 the huge, empty, white marble-slabbed space Peter caught sight of his sisters awaiting
 him on the steps to the Great Door as was proper, and his heart skipped a beat.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      The 
second and only other book apart from the Bible to exist in Narnia was little more
 than a child's picture book of stories about King Arthur and the Knights of the
 Round Table, and it was the pictures in this which had become the models for a 
great deal of Narnia.  The castle at Cair Paravel itself was an obvious imitation
 of the artist{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s impressions of Camelot in the book, with deeply
 battlemented walls, graceful flying buttresses and high, narrow, peaked towers 
flying a forest of banners.  The clothes provided for the Royal Family, too, were
 straight out of the book and were of a style which might best be described as High
 Medieval.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      Susan
 was in sea blue and Lucy in lime green but whereas the stiff embroidered bodice
 to Lucy's dress covering her chest was as flat and smooth as a paving slab Queen
 Susan's had been made with a bulge as though to contain something within it, something
 like the soft, exciting mounds he had seen, though not touched, on the Queen of
 the Dryad{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s chest.  He also noticed for the first time that
 Lucy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s skirts fell almost straight out of her bodice to the
 ground while Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s swelled over her hips from a tucked-in
 waist while the lower edge of his elder sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s stiff bodice
 was cut to a downward point like the bottom of a shield, aimed like an arrow right
 at the place between her legs where the Dryad{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s crack had held
 hidden that wonderful mouth into her body.\tab\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      Only
 their arrival in Narnia nearly nine months before Peter was sure Susan had possessed
 nothing in the way of bulges under her clothes on her chest, as Lucy still didn
't.  Now, though, Susan was older and had clearly grown up quite a lot.  Peter only
 now realised how much, with a shock that tingled through his system like electricity
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      He dismounted
 from his horse and nearly gave at the knees as the tingling surged like a wave 
around his body.  He wanted to know - needed to know - what his elder sister looked
 like with  no clothes on.  Yet  he strongly suspected that if he asked to see her
 with no clothes on she would be shocked, horrified and very, very sniffy.  Quite
 why she should be he wasn't sure and merely had a memory that as children back 
in England their parents had for several years made sure that brother and sister
 always dressed and undressed in different rooms, and didn't see each other doing
 it.  Although High King of Narnia, he suspected if he tried to see her undressed
 now he was certain his sister would make him feel like a naughty boy again.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      He stiffened
 his spine as the Centaur grooms, mostly pretty young fillies in liveried tunics
 to hide the breasts on their human torsos, took over his horse - a non-talking 
one, for none of the talking animals were beasts of burden -  and led it away.  
Steadying himself he climbed the steps to meet his sisters.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      His 
brother Edmund was not there, which was no surprise as he had been going his own
 way and doing his own thing for months now, but when Peter stopped in front of 
Susan he had another surprise.  Even standing on a step lower than her he was only
 slightly taller than she.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      He had
 not noticed how he had grown.  On their arrival in Narnia Susan had been almost
 as tall as himself and he hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t been much heavier, and when
 they had wrestled, or at least tussled, in their children's games, she had usually
 been able to hold her own.  Now he realised the advantage of height would be with
 him, and considerable weight and strength also for he was broad-shouldered and 
he now more heavily built.  The thought of wrestling with her, of getting his arms
 around her body and a leg over hers, made him tingle again but alas, he recognised
 that the days of those childhood tussles were long over.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      "Hello
, Peter," Queen Susan said.  "It went well?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Yes," he agreed.  "It all went well.  Is all well here?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Yes," said Susan formally, and there didn't seem anything more to say
.  Standing close to her Peter could see clearly that the bulge in the front of 
his sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s bodice was filled with slopes and curves of her
 body within a white silk blouse beneath it and he felt himself go weak at the knees
 again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      "Did
 you see the Dryads," Lucy asked eagerly from behind her elder sister.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Yes,"  Peter smiled at her.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}I'll tell you all about
 it later.  For now I just want to go and change."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi720{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Almost
 rudely he skipped past them and walked quickly up the rest of the stairs into the
 castle itself, where half the domestic staff of talking dogs, beavers, squirrels
, bears and badgers with a sprinkling of specialist dwarves, fawns and faerie seamstresses
 was lined up top welcome him.  His sisters would excuse him, he was sure, for it
 never seemed to occur to those who organised State Occasions that the Royal Family
 needed to relieve themselves every now and then with the result that after lengthy
 ceremonial affairs involving the presentation of this or the confirmation of that
, the girls in particular would almost gallop back to their suites of chambers and
 the welcome privies there.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 In 
Narnia only Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve seemed to need privies for the talking
 animals, like their brute cousins, seemed relaxed about where they went while the
 creatures of myth and legend like the fawns and fairies never seemed to need to
 go at all.  The Privies in the Royal Apartments were the only ones in Narnia and
 a matter the few staff at the Castle, whether animal or myth, who knew of them 
preferred to keep a rather dark secret.  The privies were, in fact, cupboard-sized
 cubbies built out of the castle walls containing only stone seats with holes in
 them some sixty feet directly above the inner moat.  Even after nine months Peter
 still disliked using his, as looking down between his legs when seated over the
 hole was a vertiginous experience and he cringed at the imagined picture of half
 his subjects watching with interest the Royal turds on their long fall into the
 moat, and as a result preferred to use the Royal privy after dark.  What his sisters
 did he had no idea.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Toilet
 paper would have been even more of a problem as a breeze of any kind would have
 distributed the Royal wipings all over the Lower Town, but as paper practically
 didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t exist in Narnia that particular problem didn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t exist either although, of course, that gave rise to a problem of a 
different kind.  After several rather unpleasant days and smelly at the outset of
 his Reign Peter was relieved to find a supply of rags and a bowl of water had appeared
 in his privy and he guessed he had Susan to thank for it, although nothing was 
ever said about it by anyone.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 His
 privy was also the only place he could look for privacy during daylight hours for
 the staff who tended his rooms did so on the basis that they were so far beneath
 his notice as to be invisible.  In consequence when about their business they entered
 his bedroom, dressing room, sitting room, reception room or private dining room
 without notice and without knocking to do their duties with their eyes averted 
from his and their ears ostentatiously closed.  As there were so many of them doing
 so many things - a different one or sometimes even two for one job, usually - Peter
 realised he would have spent all day saying, "Come in," were it otherwise, but 
he had very quickly learned that it was not a good idea to lie naked on his bed 
fondling his willy during the day. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Even
 the privy wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t that private as it had only a curtain separating
 it from his dressing room beyond, but it was better than nothing at all as he undid
 the ties and opened his breeches to take his prick in his hand.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 so-familiar shivers of delight rippled through him as he eased the tube of skin
 back and forth over its red, bulging head, made powerfully intense by his memory
 of his naked sister approaching him across the moonlit dell, the lines and smooth
 curves of her legs and thighs, her very pronounced waist and, proud on her chest
, those little swellings with the dark, indistinct discs on their tips he could 
not get out of his mind.  His hand on his prick was just a pale imitation of what
 it had felt like to have it inside that mouth between his sister{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s legs with the hair around its base thumping against her body laid out before
 him on the stump, her face shining with pleasure as she looked up at him, gasping
 at each thump.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Oh, Susan," he whispered again as the hot 
cream spurted from his prick into the rag he was holding ready for it, with only
 a fraction of the delight he had felt when it had squirted so strongly into his
 sister.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Except
, of course, it hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t been his sister, and might not have been
 anything like his sister really was between her legs.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
wiped himself clean and dropped the soiled rag though the hole weighted with a stone
 from a pile which was renewed every day by one of the servants - which one he had
 no idea.  Squirting his seed had taken the edge off his tension but left him feeling
 angry, unsatisfied and restless.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Several
 days passed and if anything he found the feelings getting worse.  He snapped and
 was rude to servants and his councillors, turned his back on what had previously
 been his great interest, the re-organisation of Narnia's army, and avoided his 
sisters.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 This
 last he had to do.  High Queen Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s presence tormented him
.  Everything about her shouted 'different{\lang5129\u8217\'92} and it was a difference
 he ached to explore yet could not.  Just the swaying of the folds of her dresses
 about her legs set his blood racing, for it was a thing of girls and not boys.  
The rose-oil perfumes she and Queen Lucy wore assailed his senses, for girls not
 boys wore perfumes and his curiosity about girls was a burning passion.  In his
 desperation he even considered by-passing his elder sister and seeing if little
 eleven-almost-twelve-year-old Lucy would undress for him so that he could at least
 get a clue about what girls had between the legs, for he knew Lucy was far more
 in awe of him than was Susan and more likely to 'give in' to him.  Lucy, though
, would only have to mention it in passing to Susan for the whole thing to be revealed
 to her and Peter was sure she would not be at all happy that he had pulled rank
 on his little sister for such a purpose.  So instead he paced the corridors of 
Cair Paravel like a man with a toothache, wishing he could either howl or bang his
 head against the stone walls.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 After
 several intolerable days of this he was standing in his apartments being measured
 for yet another tunic by one of the fairy seamstresses, his blood boiling.  High
 Queen Susan had apparently decided he needed more clothes and had delivered the
 fairy to his apartments for that purpose.  His sister had been dressed in what 
Peter had heard her call an undress gown, which was just something casual to wear
 around the Royal Apartments in the growing heat of the approaching Narnian summer
.  It was a loose white affair with full sleeves which fell straight from her shoulders
 to her slippered toes, given shape only by a cord of braided gold thread tied around
 her waist.  The shape it gained, though, stopped Peter's breath in his throat as
 it moulded itself to the swellings on his elder sister's chest and hugged her newly
-rounded hips.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 had only stopped long enough to tell the fairy what she wanted but just the brief
 glimpse of her had been enough to leave Peter itching to have his sword in his 
hands and a sun-stunned troll in front of him he could hack away at.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 I sense my King is uneasy," the fairy announced in her shill tones
 as she stood on tiptoe to measure his arm from shoulder to wrist.  This she had
 to do because like all Narnia}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s fairies she was the size, 
and shape, of an six-year-old human girl although she was presumably a lot older
.  Having such tiny, nimble hands made her stitch work exquisite.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 had golden-blond hair crowned by a coronet of daisies and which fell between her
 small gossamer wings down her back almost to her waist.  Peter knew the wings were
 actually part of her costume for she didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t actually need them
 to fly, which she did by magic.  Some sort of thin, green, silken dress fell from
 her shoulders to just above her knees, over which she wore what looked like several
 layers of cobweb-fine veiling which shimmered with all the colours of the rainbow
 as she moved.  All in all she looked exactly like what Peter would have said a 
fairy should look like, which he suspected is why she did look that way.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
..."  High King Peter shrugged.  He was more than uneasy, he was seething, but as
 fairies were notorious gossips he wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t about to admit to 
one that he was itching to see his big sister with no clothes on - for not only 
did he feel that it would be improper for him to see his sister with no clothes 
on, he still had very little idea why he was so desperate to and a worrying conviction
 that he shouldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t be.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy giggled nervously.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}If my King will allow me to make
 so bold, may I suggest you should consider a short break away from your duties? 
 The seaside, perhaps?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 seaside!  Two words that woke so many memories in Peter.  The little steam-train
 puffing out of the crowds and smoke of London to the clean air of the coast, the
 music and laughter on the pier, the pebbly beach and grey sea with Susan in a wet
 swimsuit, the cloth clinging to her smooth white skin and tight around her bottom
.  Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s prick pulsed eagerly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Er, is there anywhere?}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  he asked, trying not
 to sound too keen.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
, my Liege," the fairy giggled again.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Narnia has many remote
 and lovely places where its King and his sister could sport in the sea and sun 
in safety and privacy."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
 gosh,"  Peter breathed, overwhelmed by the prospect of sporting with his sister
 in private.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}My sister?" he queried, suddenly catching up 
with the fairy's statement.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Indeed yes," she laughed girlishly.  }\u8220\'93{\lang2057 As with
 the High King, the High Queen has been weighed down with responsibility.  It is
 no easy task to attend to the running of so large a household as your Majesties
 have.}\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 For
 the first time Peter realised how much running his elder sister did and presumably
 had to do to supervise Cair Paravel, much of it unnoticed and behind the scenes
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "And
 it will do no harm for Queen Lucy and King Edmund to have charge of the Kingdom
 for a day or two," the fairy suggested in her six-year-old tones.  {\lang5129\u8220
\'93}It would not do for them to spend all their time in the shadow of their elders
.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 recognised a truth in this no six-year-old girl would have been able to comprehend
.  He looked down into the childish face smiling innocently up at him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Yes
.  Thank you," he said thoughtfully.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Do we have, ah, swimming
 costumes?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy gave a peal of girlish glee.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}A costume for swimming
?  Whatever for?  Does a fish have need of a costume?  Hath a porpoise need of clothes
?"  Eyes shining for all the world like an six-year-old girl full of glee she regarded
 Peter solemnly.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}But if my King hath need of a costume to 
swim, my King shall have a costume to swim," she declared.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}I shall measure him for it now."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 seemed to have no need of any tape for her measurements nor any notepad to record
 anything on, but had merely drawn her fingertips along the lines of his body that
 she presumably needed the dimensions of for his tunic and had somehow recorded 
the result in her memory.  Before Peter could stop her - not that he tried very 
hard - she had unlaced his breeches, folded them back from his hips and slipped 
them down to his knees.  His freed prick reared stiffly almost in the fairy{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s face.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 ignored it.  Lightly she drew her fingertips around his waist and then down the
 sides of his buttocks and legs as though taking the measurements a pair of swimming
 trunks would need.  Then she ran them in around his thighs, waking an exquisite
 tingle that made Peter melt and his prick throb powerfully.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Looking
 at it with a frown the fairy tipped her little head on one side playfully.  "Does
 my King dress to the left or the right?" she asked with a giggle.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Sorry?" Peter queried.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Is
 my King....?"  The fairy was clearly finding the antics of Peter{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s prick only a few inches from her face hilarious.  "Does my King.....? Oh 
dear.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  Her laughter was infectious and Peter was laughing too
 even as he felt embarrassed at the sight of the little girl regarding his prick
 so closely and innocently, and giggling at it.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Would my King
 like.....?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Then
 Peter wasn't laughing, or even breathing, as the little girl carefully and tenderly
 took his prick in her tiny hands, bowed her head slightly and put her mouth around
 its bulging red head.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
felt lovely.  Hardly taller than his waist like a six-year-old girl the fairy could
 take his prick in her mouth with ease even standing up, but her little mouth seemed
 hardly big enough to get much more than its bulbous tip in it although she tried
 hard to take as much as she could and he could feel its end pressing against the
 back of her throat.  At the same time her tiny hands were busy stroking its shaft
, looking startlingly thick as it grew out of her small face, or played gently with
 the bag of skin that hung beneath it, tickling him exquisitely.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Oh, that}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s..."  King Peter breathed as he wilted
 to the wonderful delights the child was waking in his prick as her tiny mouth and
 tongue sucked and played with his prick or her little teeth nibbled carefully at
 it.  He had his hands on her small head, stroking her gossamer hair and playing
 with her delicate, pointed ears without being aware of it.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 I'm going to squirt," he gasped as he felt the jet of cream in him
 want to uncoil and spit from his prick like a snake.  "Mmmmm," the girl-child acknowledged
, closing her lips even tighter around his prick.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 explosion in Peter's middle came, his prick jerking the little fairy{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s whole head in his hands as it pumped the cream into her mouth.  She gurgled
 and choked slightly but held him firmly in her mouth until it had stopped pulsing
 and the explosion had died away leaving him feeling warm, relaxed and wonderfully
 satisfied.  The fairy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s palette and tongue squeezed the fat
, throbbing head of his penis and she sucked the last drops of his cream out of 
it, then washed it with her tongue.  It was almost more than Peter could bear and
 he nearly begged her to stop.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Grinning
 mischievously the little fairy pulled her head away so that Peter{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s prick popped out of her mouth like a lolly.  Then she swallowed, licked her
 lips and smacked them just like a child enjoying a particularly delicious sweet
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 That was lovely," Peter breathed appreciatively, "ah...., what is
 your name ?"\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Peaseblossom, if it like Your Majesty," the tiny creature answered
 sweetly, watching with her head tipped slightly to one side as though in wonder
 as Peter's prick slowly shrivelled and drooped before her face.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 name was Peaseblossom whether he liked it or not, Peter decided happily.  Yet if
 he ordered her to change her name to Squishy Turd she presumably would, at least
 officially,  because that was what Kings could do if they wanted.  He suddenly 
recalled Dethenor telling him that any female in the Kingdom would be honoured to
 receive the Royal Seed, though it had never occurred to Peter that they would be
 willing to do so in their mouths.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Yes, I like Peaseblossom,}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  he announced grandly
.  "Tell me, Peaseblossom.  Will my seed do anything to you?"\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 little girl's eyes went wide in wonder.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}It tasted nice,{\lang5129
\u8221\'94} she told him earnestly.  "Warm in my tummy.  And a great honour for 
Peaseblossom to receive it.  But,{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  she looked up at him sadly
.  "A waste, alas.  Peaseblossom cannot swell in the belly and bear a Prince for
 the King." Then she perked up again, regarding his floppy prick happily.  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}But Peaseblossom can tell that her King dresses to the right."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 glanced down and saw that his prick was hanging slightly to the right of the vertical
.  So that was what she had wanted to know.  Had she done all that just to make 
his prick loose its stiffness so she could ascertain what side he {\lang5129\u8216
\'91}dressed'?  Presumably it made some sort of difference to the way she would 
sew up his swimming costume.  He opened his mouth to ask and then changed his mind
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Tell
 me, Peaseblossom," he asked instead.  "Would you do that to me again?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 My King has only to command me," she responded instantly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Yes, but would you like doing it?" he asked slowly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Like
?" Her eyes were wide with puzzled wonder.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}To taste the seed
 of a Son of Adam?  To feel it filling me with its strength and power?  My King 
could do me no greater honour."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 wasn't about to argue with that.  It had certainly been a lot more fun than rubbing
 his prick by himself in his cramped privy.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Well, it would be my pleasure as well," he observed.  }\u8220\'93
{\lang2057 And I don't think it would be a waste.}\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "My
 liege honours me," giggled the little girl, giving a big curtsy.  For a moment 
Peter was tempted to ask her if he could look up her dress but as he was wondering
 how to phrase the request with due decorum she began solemnly doing up his breeches
 again and said, "I have all I need to make Your Majesty{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s new
 clothes."  She tied off the lacing and gave a little bobbing curtsey.  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}With Your Majesty's permission.{\lang5129\u8230\'85\u8221\'94}  Then 
before he could give it she rose two feet into the air, which brought the top of
 her head up to the level of his chin, and darted like a swallow rather disconcertingly
 out of the window, which was sixty or seventy feet above the ground.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 As you wish," Peter conceded belatedly, looking after her fondly\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Later
, and feeling happier and more relaxed than he had for some time with his prick 
still drooping contentedly in his breeches, he broached the proposal to Queen Susan
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 The seaside?" she echoed, pursing her lips doubtfully.  Looking at
 them Peter felt a powerful urge to kiss them.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "We
 could both do with a holiday," he urged.  His sister looked unconvinced.  "And 
it would do Luce and Edmund good, to be left in charge." He knew this was influencing
 Susan more than the prospect of time away from the Castle.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 'Are
 you sure they{\lang5129\u8217\'92}re up to it?" she asked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Leaving
 his little sister Lucy in charge caused Peter no qualms for she was truthful and
 honest to a fault.  As she was an hour-and-a-half older than Edmund, her twin, 
Narnian protocol gave her undisputed seniority over him should she need it, but 
Edmund was well aware of this and Peter knew his little brother{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s position as fourth and last of the Kings and Queens of  Narnia rankled him intensely
.  Even back in England, pre-Narnia, Edmund had hated being the youngest of the 
four children and had frequently acted on his own and even counter to the other 
three as though trying to establish an independence from the them.   \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 It would show Edmund that we trust him, and that he has an important
 role to play,}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  he told Susan more firmly than he felt.  A 
whiff of power as Acting King of Narnia might do Edmund more harm than good, he 
suspected, but his primary concern was to get Susan alone with him, in a swimming
 costume.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Well
.  If you think so.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  She sounded uneasy.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}It would be nice to get away for a couple of days."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Unexpected
 excitement jangled up and down Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s body.  Out of the blue
 something about what his sister had said, and the way she had said it, reminded
 him of their mother.  She might have said exactly the same thing in the same tone
 of voice to their father, Peter realised, and it might even be his memory of her
 doing so which had affected him so powerfully.  His big sister suddenly seemed 
more woman than child, and his prick stirred hopefully in his breeches at the realisation
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I'
ll organise something then, shall I?" he asked quickly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Yes.  All right," Susan agreed with conviction.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy Peaseblossom, watching the meeting through a spy-hole in the wall, heard 
the High Queen's agreement and gave a smile of satisfaction and anticipation which
 echoed the High King's own.  Carefully replacing the cover to the spyhole she turned
 away and floated confidently through the dark maze of passages in the walls of 
Cair Paravel and down many narrow, twisting staircases to a dank, grey cell carved
 in the living rock far below even the lowest store-rooms in the castle.  There 
in a faint glow thrown by a ball of crystal glimmering on a chipped and worm-eaten
 table an old man in a mildewed and mouldy black gown, thin, white, long and unkempt
 hair trailing down over his face and shoulders and a ragged, cobweb-encrusted beard
 straggling to his waist was chained to the wall by his wrists.  As the fairy floated
 into the room he bared yellow teeth in welcome.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Hungry
 again so soon, my daughter?" he wheezed sarcastically.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Oh no, father.  I have feasted," giggled the fairy.  The old man 
bared his teeth in a snarl at her.  Casually the fairy flew across the room and 
released the old man's right wrist from its iron fetter.   }\u8220\'93{\lang2057
Change me back," she ordered in her little girl voice.  }\u8220\'93{\lang2057 If
 you would eat.}\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Ignoring
 her the old man stood shaking his hand vigorously as though to restore its circulation
.  Then, twiddling his fingers experimentally, he asked lightly, "Back to what?"
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Myself," shrilled the fairy.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "As
 you command, daughter,' the old man agreed contentedly and snapped his hand in 
the air with a flick of his wrist.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 A ball
 of white light surrounded the fairy, shimmering and pulsing.  In moments it grew
 taller and dropped to the floor, pulsed for a few moments more and then dissipated
 like fog under the sun.  Where it had been a woman stood bare-footed on the wet
 flags of the chamber.  She looked to be in her mid-twenties with an oval, harshly
 beautiful face framed by a fall of straight jet-black hair that flowed to her waist
.  She was naked with full, round breasts on a slim body with flawless skin that
 seemed as white as snow against the shining black of her hair.  Only a thick bush
 of pubic hair as black as the night sky between her thighs broke the marble smoothness
 of her body.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Clothe
 me," she screeched in fury.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 old man paused for a moment, his eyes lingering on her body.  Then he flicked his
 wrist again negligently and she was clothed in pure white from neck to toe with
 long flowing sleeves, a necklace of colourless diamonds that shimmered around her
 neck like ice under the sun and a broad belt of silver and jet intermingled.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Thank you, father,"   she said icily.  Smoothly she glided over the
 floor to the old man and waited until he replaced his wrist into its iron clasp
.  Then she snapped it closed and flicked down the lever that locked it.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Unhurriedly
 she recrossed the chamber to the table on which the crystal globe shimmered, took
 up the remains of a mouse-chewed loaf of dry, mouldy bread and returned to the 
old man.  Breaking mouth sized lumps of bread from the loaf she began feeding it
 to him.  When the loaf was finished she returned to the table again and took from
 it a beautiful golden goblet chased with silver and inset with rubies and emeralds
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Turning
 to face the old man she lifted the skirts of her dress to her waist and held the
 goblet between her parted legs, her hips thrust towards him.  A thin stream of 
hot golden liquid fountained forward and down out of the bush of black hair between
 her thighs to tinkle frothing into the cup.  She half-filled it before the flow
 died away and she caught the final drops in the goblet.  Parting her legs even 
further she wiped the rim of the goblet along the cleft between them to mop up the
 last urine, then she crossed to the old man and held it to his lips.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
drank it greedily, smacking his lips with relish when she took the empty goblet 
away.  Moving as stately as any queen she glided back to the table with the cup 
and replaced it there, returning to face the old man.  There she fumbled for a moment
 with the gown at his waist and then opened it, exposing his thighs and groin.  
From a moth-eaten scattering of grey, lice-ridden hair a long, thin penis, blue-
veined and blotched brown with age, rose eagerly towards her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
have drunk the seed of a Son of Adam again,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} she told the old
 man icily.  And it was strong and copious.  Already I feel some of my strength 
returning.  She reached out and took the long, eager penis in her hand.  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}He is eager for me to drink more and soon I shall be powerful again, 
with no more need for your feeble seed.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Maybe," the old man mused, his lips twitching into a knowing smile
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang2057 But that time is not yet, eh, my daughter?"\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 No, father," the White Witch replied coldly.  }\u8220\'93{\lang2057
It is not yet.  But soon.  Oh, let it be soon."  With practised ease she twitched
 her dress up her legs, lowered herself to her knees and took her father}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 s penis in her mouth.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\ul\f0\lang2057\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 3\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Nearly
 two weeks passed before High King Peter and his elder sister High Queen Susan   
were able to leave Cair Paravel for their brief break at the seaside.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 delay was in part because of the unexpected difficulty of finding five consecutive
 days during which Narnia did not need all four of its sovereigns, or when such 
ceremonies as there were could be completed with merely Queen Lucy and King Edmund
 in attendance.  In addition and although the expedition would be taking place purely
 within the safer eastern part of Narnia, far from the mountains and forests of 
the west where the goblins and trolls still lurked and where the White Witch was
 thought to be hiding as she plotted her revenge, the Centaur Cambrick whom Peter
 had appointed Marshall of Narnia's Army wanted to take a massive military presence
 with them.  Peter was not unhappy with the prospect as he took it as an opportunity
 to look at how the army moved on a campaign but Susan was appalled at the thought
 of travelling in the dust and clatter of a hundred Centaurs, several hundred talking
 horses with an armed dwarf rider, a loosely-organised, enormous pack of  blood-
thirsty talking dogs, a dozen keen but lame-brained giants and a squabbling mob 
of griffins, unicorns, phoenix, sphinx and kraken who were all prepared to fight
 to the death to defend her but in whom Peter had so far failed to instil any discipline
 whatsoever.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Putting
 her foot down with a firm hand she had been able to get their military escort reduced
 to a reasonable size only to discover that another army of fawn clerks, dwarf and
 talking beaver cooks, fairy seamstresses, talking squirrel and rabbit servants 
and footmen, washer-frogs and talking pig construction workers had also been told
 off to accompany them.  Digging deeper, she had discovered that a substantial portion
 of Cair Paravel's resources had already been switched to producing food, tents 
and wagons for them all and that a small army of carpenters, builders, plumbers 
and stone-masons had already been dispatched to prepare the site, wherever it was
, for the Royal arrival and three-day sojourn, with a constant stream of food, timber
, tools and material departing from Cair Paravel{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s gates just
 to supply them.  The latter she could do little about but without reference to 
Peter she waded into the former and stripped their accompanying entourage to what
 she considered the minimum.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 So 
it was with an escort far below what many Narnians considered appropriate for their
 High King and Queen that Peter and Susan finally processed through Cair Paravel
's Great East Gate for a three day break at the sea-side.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Although
 her brother was riding at the head of the procession Queen Susan preferred the 
reasonable comfort of her carriage, in part because she knew that was what her subjects
 expected of her and in part because it was more comfortable, and proper for a Queen
, than riding a horse. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 was no tomboy, knew it and was happy about it.  She would rather be a girl than
 a boy any day.  Being a queen was even better because people expect and want queens
 to be ladylike, and it was even better in Narnia because there the talking animals
 and mythical creatures who were her subjects had an even more refined idea of what
 it was to be ladylike because their only experiences of Daughters of Eve were the
 stories of Guenevere and the ladies rescued by the knights in the stories of King
 Arthur they had found in the Book.  In Narnia her subjects wanted to dress her 
in silks and the most exquisite lace, ensured everywhere she might go was spotlessly
 clean, didn't expect her to lift anything heavier than a knife and fork, and half
-expected her to swoon if she had to walk more than ten yards on her own two feet
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 down side was that they seemed to expect her to make every decision on the most
 minute detail of the domestic arrangements in Cair Paravel.  At their home in London
 their mother had run the household with the help of just one maid and had been 
starting to introduce Susan to the secrets of just how a woman did that when the
 catastrophe of Dunkirk had brought the Germans to within bombing range of London
 and the children had been evacuated to the countryside.  Now armed with that briefest
 and most inadequate introduction Susan was having to run a huge establishment she
 suspected was bigger than Buckingham Palace.  And without any help.  Lucy and Edmund
 of course were too young and Peter seemed totally unaware of the amount of work
 she had to do, the running around she did and the decisions she had to take, and
 instead went swanning off to play at soldiers with his silly Narnian Army.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Of 
course it was all silly, she decided, waving a regal hand at a group of young talking
 rabbits the size of four-year-old children jumping up and down excitedly and squeaking
 'Hooray for Queen Susan,' at the tops of their little voices.  She had no business
 being a queen when she was just fourteen and still only half-way into becoming 
a woman, and rabbits had no business at all talking.  Narnia couldn't be real.  
It had to be a dream.  But if it was a dream it was one she couldn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t wake herself up from and even if it wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t real it was
 still the nearest thing to reality she had, and seemed to be determined to carry
 her along with it whether she would or no.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Other
 possibilities skirted her mind, but she didn't like to think about them.  The worst
 was that she was lying dead in England and her soul or whatever had come to Narnia
 as a sort-of but-not-quite Heaven.  Sometimes she replayed her memories of what
 had happened to bring them all into Narnia looking for a moment that might have
 been an accident in which she had been knocked unconscious or killed and out of
 which Narnia was born in her mind, but she could find none.  Almost as bad was 
the fear that she had suddenly gone mad and was fantasising a life her real life
 couldn't penetrate, but it was hard to imagine that a dream or a mad fantasy could
 be so persistent, consistent and, in an odd sort of way, logical.  But then you
 didn't know you were dreaming when you were dreaming, did you.  You only knew it
 had been a dream when you woke up.  But perhaps she would never wake up.  Perhaps
 she couldn't because she was dead and in a coffin under the earth and her mother
 and father were grieving... Or perhaps they were dead, too, if a bomb had hit their
 London home before they all knew about it, and her memories of the whole evacuation
 and the professor and the wardrobe and Narnia were just her brain not knowing it
 was dead and inventing a life....\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 heard herself whimper and shook away the thoughts.  Narnia seemed as real as England
 ever had and she knew she had to cling to the belief that both were in some impossible
 way real at the same time, and that one day they would find again the lamp-post
 in the woods and the way back through the wardrobe where they would be once again
 in an England as real as Narnia was now.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 What
 kind of England would it be, though?  All other things being equal it would by 
now be the summer of 1941.  Were the Germans occupying England?  Was Hitler living
 in Buckingham Palace?  Was London just a heap of rubble with their mother and father
 lying dead under it, or were they perhaps among great long columns of shabby refugees
 shambling along a road somewhere owning nothing more than they could get in a suitcase
 like all those Polish and Belgian and Dutch refugees she{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d 
seen on the newsreels in London just before the evacuation?  Were they frantic with
 worry about the children they had sent off into the countryside all those months
 earlier with no idea where they were going, and from whom they had heard nothing
 since?  Feeling tears forming in her eyes and a great wave of sadness building 
in her chest she tried to banish those thoughts as well.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 most immediate and pressing problem, she told herself sternly, was what she was
 going to do about Peter.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 was growing up.  Her breasts had become quite big.  Alone in her bedchamber she
 often tested how big and they were now a little bigger than she could comfortably
 cup in her hands.  The hair between her legs had grown into quite a bush and somehow
 the slit in her body between them had grown, too.  Not exactly bigger, or deeper
, but sort of fuller with all those odd wrinkles and rolls of flesh in it somehow
 softer and fatter.  When she tried she could get quite a thick candle quite a long
 way inside her body through the hole in the crack but if, as she believed, babies
 were born through that hole and as the head of the baby she had once seen only 
a day after its birth had been much bigger, bigger even than a cricket ball, she
 clearly had a lot more growing up to do as her hole was a long way from being big
 enough to get a cricket ball through it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 But
 Peter was growing up, too.  He was now sixteen and much taller than she was, and
 looked strong and powerful.  Even though he was perhaps being silly about the army
 (for Susan knew his real fear was that the Germans would somehow find their way
 through the wardrobe after them, as if a collection of Centaurs etc. armed with
 swords and bows and arrows would stand a chance against Hitler's tanks and storm
 troopers), she admitted to herself that he was rarely silly in himself any more
.  He was quite comfortable and assured dealing with solemn and serious Centaurs
 who were far older than he and talked like head-masters, and when he actually had
 to make a decision at one of the many hearings of disputes between Narnia's subjects
 rather than just accept the compromise she herself seemed so good at finding, he
 was firm and unswayable even when she thought he was wrong.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 And
 she was perfectly aware that her brother wanted to touch her up.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
'd learned about boys wanting to touch girls up in her last months at school in 
England, although it had never happened to her.  Not so she'd noticed, anyway.  
Almost as soon as her breasts had started growing nearly two years before, when 
they were no more than little puffy pads beneath her nipples and not much wider 
than those soft pink rings around them, she had been aware of men and older boys
 secretly, as they thought, studying her blouses or dress-tops as though trying 
to see if the little bumps in the material were caused by tiny mounds of girl-flesh
 beneath or just wrinkles or sags in the cloth.  Slowly the mounds had grown, swelling
 beneath her nipples and forcing them upwards like little mole-hills on her chest
, and the round shapes they made in her clothes became unmistakably her.  Then she
 had felt the gazes of men and boys on them, lingering on them and stroking them
, and she had felt a little proud of the effect she was having on them while at 
the same time feeling a little shy that her body was betraying its growth, and a
 little scared that she didn't understand why those tiny soft mounds should have
 such a huge effect on boys far older than her, let alone grown men.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 had learned from girl-friends at school that boys and men wanted to do more than
 just look at them in her clothes.  They wanted to see them in the flesh, touch 
them and even kiss them, and would sometimes do so whether the girl they belonged
 to wanted them to or not.  Some girls didn't mind, they said.  If they liked a 
boy they would let him put his hand up her blouse and fondle them, or even undo 
her buttons so he could see them and kiss them.  Two girls admitted to letting their
 brothers do it, although both boys had been older than Peter had been at the time
.  One girl said, rather angrily and bitterly, that her father just undid her blouse
, touched and kissed her breasts without asking if he could.  He just did it as 
if what she thought didn't matter.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 One
 or two girls said that boys, and men, would go further if you{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}d let them.  Put their hands down the front of your knickers and their fingers 
in your hole.  And would undo their trousers and show you, and ask you to touch, 
their pricks which, it seemed to Susan, were some sort of extra finger boys had 
where girls had their cracks.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Although
 she had been aware that some men, like an uncle who visited them sometimes, liked
 to touch her more than he had before although only harmlessly on the arm or around
 the waist or stroke her hair, neither Peter nor her father had ever actually tried
 to touch her breasts or between the legs, and certainly neither had ever shown 
her their pricks, whatever they were.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 wanted to touch her now, though.  She had seen him looking at the mounds her breasts
 made in her clothes with his soul in his eyes, even though she knew he was trying
 to hide it and had not let on she had seen it.  She had seen his fingers twitch
 when she had walked past him sometimes, as though he had nearly reached out to 
pat her bottom or perhaps press it to her skirts between her legs and then fought
 down the action at the last moment.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 problem was that she couldn't say for certain that she didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}t want him to touch her.  She liked Peter, and not just because he was her brother
 for she could admit to herself that she didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t much like her
 other, little, brother.   Edmund was dishonest and spiteful, traits which had nearly
 put them all within White Witch's hands when first they had arrived in Narnia, 
and Susan was happier when he stayed out of her way.  Peter, though, was honest, 
truthful and reliable.  More, he never bullied her the way some girls said their
 older brothers bullied them and always gave time to her suggestions, and seriously
 considered them.  Indeed, Susan told herself sternly, if Peter was ignorant of 
the work she did and trouble she had running Cair Paravel it was largely because
 she did all she could to stop him finding out.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 even wanted to show him her new breasts.  They were very tangible proof of how 
much she had grown up and she was proud of them.  As proud of Peter would have been
 of a beard like their father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s had he been old enough to grow
 one, which he still wasn't.  She would have liked for him to admire them, except
 that Peter surely knew as well as she did that girls who actually liked showing
 their breasts to boys were sluts and she didn't want Peter thinking he had a slut
 for a sister.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 And
 if she did let him know she wouldn't mind his seeing, and perhaps touching, her
 breasts he would surely want to see her, and touch her, between the legs as well
.  Which had to be going far too far.  She couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t allow that
, however much she might want to.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 royal progress with Susan in her coach was far out of Cair Paravel so it didn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t matter if the High Queen sat slumped miserably on its padded upholstery
 as there was no-one to see but the dumb birds in the trees, who cared as much for
 kings and queens as their counterparts in England.  The coach had no coachman or
 footmen as it was being pulled by six beautiful greys who were just brute beasts
 of burden controlled and guided by two talking horses which made any question of
 them bolting or even acting up in the traces out of the question, for talking horses
 seemed to be able to communicate with their dumb cousins as well as they could 
with their king and queen.  They had left quite early in the morning and Susan had
 been told that the journey was likely to take until late afternoon, which meant
 they were only going some thirty or so miles from Cair Paravel, but to Susan even
 that short trip was a long time to be alone with her thoughts.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-22{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
For the truth was, she told herself miserably, she was a slut.  She was proud of
 her new breasts and had enjoyed catching boys and men looking at them in England
.  She liked touching herself between her legs and poking her finger, and other 
things, up her hole.  She had even invited her little sister to do it to her before
 they had left London.  There had been older boys at their school in England, handsome
 and confident,  she would have allowed to touch her up had they shown any interest
 in her, which they hadn't.  She would probably even have let Peter touch her up
 then had he wanted to, but he had probably been too young to want to.  Now he wasn
't and did, but she too was older and wiser.  What might have been thought only 
naughtiness in a twelve-year-old, curious child giving in to an older, much loved
 older brother, could only be bad, sluttish behaviour in a fourteen-year-old girl
 who wasn't making too bad a job of being a Queen.  So the problems were whether
 her brother, however much he might want to, would actually go so far as to make
 any move to touch her up, and how she was to stop him if he did. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 To 
Queen Susan's inexpressible relief the journey to their destination did not take
 as long as foretold and it was only mid-afternoon when she stiffly climbed out 
of her carriage into a welcome fresh salt-laden breeze.  The sight awaiting her 
went a long way to lifting a heavy heart, for she had determined she had to refuse
 any advances towards naughtiness her elder brother might make towards her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 coastline they had been following for a while had consisted of rugged, windswept
 cliffs not unlike the White Cliffs of Dover, although of grey rock rather than 
chalk.  However where they had stopped two pieces of the cliff swept outwards and
 around like arms to enclose a small, almost perfectly circular bay.  Where the 
seaward arms of cliff nearly touched was a small, rock-strewn gap where breakers
 from the wide sea beyond dashed themselves to oblivion in clouds of white spray
 leaving the surface of the bay itself like a mill-pond except for little ripples
 lifted by the breeze which lapped gently against a wide beach of pure golden sand
.  The water of the bay was blue-green and clear under a blue, cloud-dappled summer
 sky and the beach was backed by cliffs which sloped down to no more than about 
twenty-feet high at its innermost part, where a sparkling stream of fresh water 
cascaded over it into a deep pool from which the stream continued down the beach
 into the bay. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 To 
each side of the pool on the beach stood a small pavilion bright with flags and 
streamers,  one in blue for Peter and one in pink for her.  Two graceful flights
 of wooden steps in bone-white wood, one for each pavilion, swept up from the beach
 to the cliff-top where two very much larger versions of the beach pavilions faced
 each other across the stream with a brand-new wooden footbridge crossing it to 
link them should Narnia{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s High King and High Queen wish to communicate
.  A good long bowshot inland, where the salt-laden winds had lost their sting, 
a thick wood began and along its edge stood a neat town of canvas for the King and
 Queen's entourage, into which it was already dispersing and among which the smoke
 of stoves and cooking fires was rising and mingling.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 on his white horse Mercy trotted up with Cambrick, his Centaur bodyguard Dethenor
 and an honour guard of bright-mailed, axe-toting dwarves bouncing uncomfortably
 on the backs of talking horses at his heels.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "What
 about this, then?{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he asked her with enthusiasm.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "It
's beautiful," Susan agreed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Since
 proposing the seaside trip to her Peter had been noticeably happier, which Susan
 put down both to the trip itself and to the fairy Peaseblossom who after that first
 occasion when Susan had taken her to Peter to measure up for the new tunic the 
fairy had persuaded Susan he needed, had by all accounts spent quite a lot of time
 in Peter's company.  Once she had caught them together, Peter unaccountably red
-faced and the little fairy giggling like the six-year-old she looked like, but 
all the fairies were like that - forever gossiping, playing little harmless practical
 jokes and just giggling at nothing at all.  The night before their departure it
 had been a shyly smiling Peaseblossom who had handed Susan a swimming costume it
 had never occurred to the queen she might need, as she had never been one for swimming
 in the sea.  Particularly when she didn't know what else might be in it with her
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Race
 you into the water,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Peter challenged from Mercy's back.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
, not so soon," Susan replied quickly.  Her immediate need was for a lavatory and
 she hoped the explicit instructions for the provision of latrines for herself and
 Peter had been obeyed.  Occasionally she thought she'd happily give up half her
 kingdom for a flushing loo and a roll of paper.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 A look
 of disappointment and chagrin Susan didn't miss crossed Peter's face to be gone
 in a moment as he smiled fondly at her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Oh well.  Whenever," he said.  "But I'm going in."  He trotted off
 looking cheerful but Susan knew her refusal to join him for a swim had disappointed
 him deeply.  The trip, of course, had been his idea and he would be keenly wanting
 her to enjoy it.  He might also be hoping to be able to forget being High King 
of Narnia for a little time by reliving those happy times in England when the children
 with their parents had left the seriousness of their London home for the colour
 and chaos of a few hours at the seaside.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Followed
 by a small entourage of her own, which included her own personal Centaur bodyguard
 Belrath, her fawn secretary Hennin, her owl Maid of Honour Pel, her dresser Edor
 and a dozen maids and servants, she crossed to the big pink Pavilion by the stream
 intended for her.  There she ordered them all away except Belrath, telling them
 that when she was on holiday she would do everything for herself.  Reluctantly 
and grumbling they went.  She would have liked to have sent Belrath away, too, but
 he had sworn to defend her life with his own and never left her side.  It had taken
 a point-blank, direct order from High Queen Susan to get him to remain outside 
her bedchamber and dressing room whenever she was in them, when he would pointedly
 clump up and down just the other side of the door until she ordered him to be quiet
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Belrath?  Here," she told the huge man-horse severely, indicating
 that he was to stand guard outside the Pavilion rather than at her shoulder within
 it.  He scowled at her from his handsome man's face a yard above her but then inclined
 his head in reluctant obedience.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 As my Queen wishes," he grumbled.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
do," Susan told him.  Having something as mighty as a Centaur willing to die for
 you was heart-stirringly impressive, she thought, but it could also be an oil-fired
 nuisance a lot of the time.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 swept through the dust-defeating double drapes at the entrance to her pavilion 
and shooed out the two talking-rabbit maids and solemn talking-badger butler she
 found waiting her pleasure inside.  To her relief a latrine had been provided in
 a discrete annex, complete with seat, rags, stones and water-bowl.  She used it
, briefly explored the bedchamber, dressing room, withdrawing room and reception
 room also contained within the pavilion, changed out of her travelling clothes 
into something lighter and then emerged into the sunlight again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 was in the sea, swimming and playing in the water like a seal for he had always
 loved it.  Denethor was watching him from the top of the steps leading down to 
the beach.  As the steps would have been difficult but not impossible for the Centaur
 to negotiate this meant that Peter had ordered him to stay there, for the man-horse
 would otherwise have been at the very edge of the water near his King if not actually
 in it.  Fully understanding her brother's thinking Susan turned to Belrath.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
want you to stay here," she told him firmly.  "The beach is off-limits to everyone
 except the king and me." To be free of the constant presence of armed centaurs, 
fawning fawns and servile servants would be the best thing about their brief holiday
.  "And I mean everyone," she added severely. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "As
 my Queen wishes," Belrath sulked.  It had taken Susan several weeks to find the
 courage to test whether or not her title of Queen had real clout in Narnia but 
having discovered that it did and that what she said went, it had quickly become
 second nature.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 descended the staircase serving her side of the beach and stepped out onto the 
sand.  The only footsteps visible on it were Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s, which 
mean that all the marks left by the teams who had erected the tents on the beach
 as well as the talking-beaver carpenters who had built the staircases had been 
carefully smoothed over.  In her pink tent, which was the size of a fair-sized room
 in their London home, was a day-bed, a table and four chairs, a desk and a side
-board bearing dishes of fruit, honey-sweets and Narnia toffee and flasks of juices
 and wine in coolers packed with ice regularly brought in large blocks to Cair Paravel
 from high in the Western mountains.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 In 
far more luxury than she had previously enjoyed at the seaside she undressed and
 put on the swimming costume Peaseblossom had made for her.  It was made of fine
 wool in virgin white and fitted beautifully as did everything the fairy seamstresses
 made.  Peaseblossom had made a number of her dresses and so would have had Susan
's vital statistics in her memory, although Susan did briefly wonder where she could
 have found a pattern for so modern an item of apparel as a swimming costume.  It
 was a one-piece with a decorously high neck, although it did hug her breasts rather
 revealingly.  It fitted snugly around her bottom and thighs, too, but for her modesty
 a short, frilly skirt had been added to hang from her hips half-way to her knees
.  Susan had no illusions that it would do anything other than make her brother'
s eyes pop out but well, she thought, the sooner he tried to feel her up if he was
 going to, the sooner she could let him know she wasn't going to let him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Snatching
 up a thick woollen towel - another innovation she had introduced to Narnia - she
 let herself out of the tent and walked down the beach to the sea.   The sand was
 warm to her feet and the sun was warm on her skin, and she could feel her brother
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s gaze hot on her body in the tight embrace of the costume 
as she reached the edge of the water although he was smiling and trying to look 
innocent.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Come
 on in.  The water's lovely,"  he called.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 waded a little way in, and had to agree it was.  It was so clear that even when
 knee deep she could see her feet disturbing the frilly patterns of the sand, and
 deliciously cool without the breath-taking chill of the English Channel even in
 August.  She walked in until she was waist-deep in the water and then stopped, 
the little skirt of her costume floating around her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Pretty costume, sis."  Peter observed, swimming lazily on his back
 a few yards deeper in.  "Did Peaseblossom make it for you?"\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Yes
.  She make yours?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Yes."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 her brother floating on his back Susan could see his costume, a pair of short-legged
 trews patterned with rich blues, greens and oranges.  With no chemical industry
 to supply artificial dyes Narnia was limited to natural colourings like woad and
 cochineal and even these were hard to obtain and difficult to use, as Susan was
 only too well aware.  The only colour in her costume was a ribbon in the same blue
 as was in Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s costume sewn into the hem of the little skirt
.  For his whole costume to be woven of threads dyed those colours was an extravagant
 use of a rare resource which she guessed Peter was wholly oblivious to.  The fairy
 Peaseblossom clearly had a lot of time for her King, Susan decided.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Like
 her own, her brother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s costume was tight-fitting and as he 
paddled lazily past on his back she could see within it something forming a lump
 in the material where she had nothing but a crack.  What did boys have there, she
 wondered?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 suddenly ducked beneath the surface, his legs waving in the air for a moment before
 following his trunk.  Then his head surfaced and he stood arm-pit deep in the sea
, water streaming out of his light hair.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 'When
 I told her about swimming costumes she thought it was hilarious," he told her.  "
She couldn't understand why we should want to wear anything in the water.{\lang5129
\u8220\'93}  For all the jocularity in his voice Susan heard an underlying tension
 and nervousness.  "Dare you to take yours off,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he challenged
, and then bobbed beneath the water.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 There
 was no obvious reason not to, she thought, for there was no-one to see except her
 own brother and the two Centaurs far away on the cliff top.  But it was her own
 brother, who shouldn't have the slightest interest in seeing his sister naked, 
who wanted to and that was why, therefore, she shouldn't.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 shot upwards out of the water in an explosion of spray that sent waves slapping
 against her stomach, waving his costume above his head triumphantly. He steadied
 himself on his feet for a moment watching her, and then when it became clear she
 wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t going to take her own costume off, and just as she opened
 her mouth to tell him why, he flung the wet costume away from him and duck-dived
 beneath the surface again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 saw him coming, a white torpedo beneath the surface, but hindered by the water 
could do nothing about it.  He took her in a slow-motion rugby-tackle around the
 thighs and pulled her underwater with him.  His hands slipped up her body to her
 breasts, cupping and squeezing them, while his face pressed into her thighs, his
 nose burrowing between them and pressing against her crack through the thin material
.  For a moment she surrendered to it, thrilled by the firm press of his hands against
 her breasts and excited by the feel of his nose on her fanny.  Then in a rush of
 shame she twisted away, her hands dragging his off her breasts and her legs kicking
 out.  Unintentionally a flailing leg caught her brother on the chest and thrust
 him away.  Shocked, furious, spluttering and tingling all over she fought her way
 to the surface and stood hip deep in the water shaking hair and water out of her
 eyes.  Peter surfaced coughing two yards away.  He was waist deep and just beneath
 the surface through the tangled reflections of the disturbed water Susan could 
see a rod of flesh with a strange bulging, red head far bigger than she would have
 imagined projecting out of a patch of gingery curls like her own.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Peter you mustn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t.  You're my brother,}\u8221
\'94{\lang2057  she hissed angrily when she}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d caught her breath
.  "And I'm not like that, anyway.  I don't want you or any boy touching me up.}
\u8221\'94{\lang2057  #\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Sue, I....."  His head was hanging and he was blushing furiously.  "
I'm sorry.  I couldn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t help it.  I..."  He looked up at her
, his eyes went wide and his voice dried up.  Looking down at herself Susan saw 
that the water had turned her costume almost transparent and it clung to her body
 like nothing more than a milky wash through which the round mounds of her breasts
 and the rose pink circles of her nipples were clearly visible.  Hastily she turned
 away, forged through the water to the beach and grabbed the towel.  Wrapping it
 around her she marched away up the beach without looking back.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 In 
her little tent she ripped the traitorous swimming costume off her body angrily.  
It was possible the fairy Peaseblossom hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t realised what 
would happen when the material became wet, but it was also possible that she had
 known very well.  Practical jokes like that were very much part of the fairy mentality
, she knew, and she was angry at herself for falling for it although she would previously
 never have believed any fairy was spunky enough to play a practical joke on her
 High Queen.  It was even possible that the whole thing had been an idea of Peter
's, conspiring with the fairy to get a good look at Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s 
breasts.  That thought made her angry as well.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 had known she would be teasing Peter, wearing the costume in front of him.  Her
 hope had been that he might make some comment, or perhaps some tentative, cautious
 move towards touching her breasts or between the legs which would enable her to
 gently stop him dead and let him know she was out of bounds to him.  Instead he
 had taken her by surprise and had forced her to be far more brutal than she had
 intended, and that made her angry at him and also herself for losing control of
 the situation.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 was angry, too, that when her brother had taken her breasts into his hands they
 had seemed to leap into them.  Indeed, her whole body still tingled at his remembered
 touch while when he had nosed between her thighs she had wanted to open her legs
 to him and press his face to her fanny.  She was a slut, a trollop who had better
 give herself a severe talking to without delay.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Towelling
 the worst of the salt from her body she donned a dressing gown and then cautiously
 peeked out of a crack in the drapes closing the entrance to her tent.  Peter, his
 swimming costume on again, was coming up the beach from the sea, looking as if 
he was carrying a huge weight on his shoulders.  He didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t so
 much as glance towards his sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s tent until he had passed
 out of her sight.  She heard him splash about in the pool beneath the waterfall
, washing the salt from his body, and then quiet.  Troubled, and with her body still
 tingling with the memory of his hands on her breasts, she sat down at the table
 to order her thoughts.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Sue
?"  Her brother called from outside her tent, his voice contrite and full of appeal
.  "Can I talk to you."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 They
 needed to talk, she knew.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Yes
.  Come in.  But behave."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Nodding
 he came in and perched rather uncomfortably on the edge of her daybed.  His hair
 was slicked and still wet and he was, like her, wearing a dressing-gown tied at
 the waist with a cord.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Do
 you know how babies are made?" he asked apologetically.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 accepted that he did not know.  After all, she wasn't too sure herself and the 
making of babies was surely more a woman's thing than a man's.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Just before we were evacuated," she said quietly and a little sadly
.  "Mother had a long talk with me.  She warned me that things were about to start
 happening to my body, and she was worried that she might not be around to talk 
to me about it.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "She
 told me that I had a womb."  Oddly, Susan felt shy telling this to her brother 
although he surely had to know that much about his sister.  After all, that was 
why she was his sister and not his brother.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}When I'm married
 my husband will put his seed in my womb and a baby will grow there.  It's like 
a kind of cot, where the baby will sleep and grow 'til it's ready to be born.  Mother
 said that when I'm old enough to have babies my womb will make a new cot every 
month, and get rid of the old one.  While it is doing that I might have tummy-aches
, and will bleed a little bit."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 shrugged and, avoiding his eyes, answered the questions he had not asked but which
 were hanging in the air between them.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Between my legs.  And
 yes, I have started the tummy-aches and bleeding. So I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}m old
 enough to have babies now."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 mother had told her a little more, about how boys and men would want to put their
 seed in her even if they weren't married to her.  And that she might even at times
 think it would be nice it they did, if she liked them very much.  But while thinking
 about it was natural only bad girls actually went ahead and did it while good girls
 waited until they were properly married.  Susan was very well aware that her mother
 thought her to be a good girl, and certainly expected her to be one.  She told 
none of this to her brother, though.  That she was a good girl went without saying
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 had been staring  between his feet at the carpet on top of the sand.  When Susan
 had been quiet for a little and had clearly finished he gave a grimace and then
 began talking quietly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I'
m old enough to make baby-seed," he said.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}I was when we still
 in London.  When I went to the Ceremony of the Dryads' Rebirth I had to squirt 
some of my baby-seed into the Queen of the Dryads.  Like I was her husband, I suppose
."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
gave a small shrug.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}So I did," he went on, still not looking
 at her.  "Squirting my baby-seed into her was the most fantastic thing I've ever
 felt."  Then he raised his eyes and looked straight into her amazed ones.  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}The Queen of the Dryads looked like you.  She said she'd taken your form
 to honour you.  She certainly had your face.  So when I squirted my seed into her
 it was like I was squirting it into you."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 realised she was gaping and shut her mouth.  Her brother had done THAT?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
dropped his eyes from hers and sighed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Her face looked like yours but I didn't know.... you know..... if
 the rest of her did.  From what I saw in the sea," he gave her a wry grin, "She
 did.  But...   I put my..... prick.....  right inside her.  Between her legs.  
Like she had a mouth or something there.  I didn't.....  don't.... know...  Sue, 
have you got a mouth there?   I mean, I feel so stupid.  Not knowing something like
 that.  I'm supposed to be High King.....  but I don't know....."  His voice tailed
 off sheepishly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 big brother's embarrassment, frustration and shyness was so obviously honest that
 Susan knew it was not all some complicated ruse to explain away his desire to touch
 her up.  Had they still been in England Peter, who she recognised was a nice boy
 as well as quite handsome, would probably have no trouble finding a girl at their
 school who would let him explore her body between the legs.  Here in Narnia he 
only had his sisters and while eleven-year-old Lucy was quite able to show him what
 he wanted to know, and would probably have been perfectly willing to let her adored
 elder brother look had he asked,  Susan would not have been at all pleased had 
he done so.  As he could so easily have done, she realised.  Except that being Peter
 he hadn't.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 If I show you," she said slowly.  "You must promise not to try to
 touch."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 saw him swallow nervously as he nodded his promise.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 her heart suddenly beating hard and her breath shallow in her chest she fumbled
 at the knot on the cord holding her gown closed.  She was about to deliberately
 expose herself to her brother and she felt at one and the same time nervous, embarrassed
, ashamed and excited.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 knot came undone and she opened the gown to his eyes.  She felt his gaze travel
 slowly from her neck, linger on her breasts then drop to her thighs and focus on
 the triangle of tawny curls there.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "She
 didn't have hair down there," he breathed in awe.  {\lang5129\u8216\'91}And those
.... tips.. on her...."  He waved his hand loosely in the vicinity of his heart.  
{\lang5129\u8220\'93}Were much bigger.  And darker.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "They
're called nipples.  On my breasts,"  Susan said in a voice which was surprisingly
 steady considering the turmoil in her stomach.  "She wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t
 very good imitation, then."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Oh Susan, you're beautiful," he almost choked.  }\u8220\'93{\lang2057
Do you.....  have a mouth.....?"\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 had been sitting with her legs modestly together with only the hair between her
 thighs visible.  With a shuddering breath she hoped Peter hadn't seen she stiffened
 her spine, summoned her courage and leaned back, spreading her legs to her brother
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s eyes.  She heard his breath lock in his throat.  With a hand
 that shook slightly she used two fingers to open up her crack and reveal the hole
 into her body.  Then, realising that all he would be able to see were folds of 
moist, pink flesh, she slid a finger deep into her fanny to illustrate where it 
was.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 It}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s not really a mouth," she said, a slight
 waver in her voice.  "Just a sort of tunnel that leads to my womb.  I can't open
 and close it or anything."  Her finger in her fanny, her memory of her brother'
s nose pressing against it through the thin material of her swimming costume and
 the knowledge that he was staring right at it from a range of about ten feet were
 sending tingles of excitement up and down her spine far stronger than anything 
she had ever woken playing with herself with finger or candle.  Were her brother
 to suddenly stand up, open his gown and approach her with that strange rod of flesh
 in his hand, she knew she would not be able to move.  Even the thought made the
 tingling in her spine intensify almost unbearably.  If he stepped between her legs
 she would open them wider for him, and hold her fanny open for him with her fingers
 as he put his  - prick - to it and pushed it into her.  And then.....\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 snatched her fingers away and closed her legs sharply, squeezing her thighs together
 as a great hot gush suddenly rushed down the passage from the womb to her fanny
, leaving her shuddering and panting.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Are
 you all right?" Peter asked with concern in his voice.  He had not approached her
 and tried to put his prick in her because he had agreed not to touch her.  Shamed
 and embarrassed by what was happening to her, and her lack of control over it, 
she glowered at him and closed her gown like the curtain at the end of a play in
 a theatre.  Her brother nodded sadly, as though he understood.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Thank
 you, Sue.  I suppose it isn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t easy for a girl to show herself
 like that." He paused for a long moment, not looked at her and so not seeing her
 confusion.  For although it had not been easy for her to bring herself to expose
 herself to her brother, actually doing so had been thrilling.  Slut.  Trollop, 
she snarled at herself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Would
 you like to see me?" Peter asked nervously.  "That is, I know you wouldn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t like to, but maybe you ought to.....  So's you know....  about boys
....  what they have.  I can make my seed come.  I mean... being a girl....  maybe
 you ought to know....  what it's like.  Like Latin.  And algebra.  They're horrid
 to learn.  But you{\lang5129\u8217\'92}re better for knowing them."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 did want to see what he was like, for the glimpse she'd had of what he had between
 his legs beneath the waves had been fascinating.  And if she was going to have 
babies, she ought to know what a man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s baby-seed looked like
, surely?  After all, she was going to have it squirted inside her.  Knowing these
 things was all part of growing up.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Well
, all right," she said as though reluctant.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}But I'm not going
 to touch you and you're not to touch me.  Agreed?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Agreed," he said with a firm if disappointed nod.  After a slight
 hesitation on his part he opened his robe.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 rod of flesh Susan had seen beneath the water reared out of her brother's thighs
.  Blushing slightly he took it in his hand and to her amazement gently rolled a
 sheath of skin back to expose a red, bulging head.  It pulsed in his hand.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Just
 before the battle against the White Witch's army the great golden lion Aslan, Narnia
's guardian,  had given High King Peter a sword which Peter had held up triumphantly
.  It should have looked silly to Susan, her fifteen-year-old brother waving a sword
 above his head, but it hadn't.  The battle they were facing was as real as anything
 else in Narnia and the sword was real, with edges sharp enough to kill.  In Peter
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hands it could, and had, taken life and saved his own.  Susan
 had seen it bloodied after the battle, during which he had fought and killed the
 wolf Maugrim, the chief of the White Witch's secret police.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
's prick in his hand should have looked ugly and silly to his sister, but it didn
't.  Like the sword it was beautiful with a hard purpose which could not be refuted
 or denied.  The sword hadn't been pretend or a toy.  In a sense that closed a fist
 around Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s heart her brother's prick was Peter himself.  
His purpose.  To create and pass on life rather than, like the sword, take it.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Once
, in secret, she had picked up the sword and drawn it from its sheath, remembering
 it bloodied with death.  She had felt its weight and balance, imagined what its
 razor-keen edges could do to her flesh if Peter swung it against her, and shivered
 with a thrill at the power it had.  A frightening power which just for that moment
 was in her hands.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 shivered with the same thrill at the sight of her brother's prick, at the power
 it held to give life, and imagined it in her hands.  At that power submitting to
 her hands, quivering and throbbing against her fingers.  She wanted to hold it, 
stroke it like one would a half-wild tiger.  She could see from the expression in
 her brother's face that his hand caressing his prick was deeply pleasant for she
 had felt her own face melt and gaze loose focus when her finger toying in her crack
 had set the tingles running up and down her spine.  Another hot gush cascaded down
 her tunnel at the thought and she knew she had become wet between the thighs as
 though she had wee{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d slightly.  Slut.  Trollop. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "The
 bag under it contains my balls,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Peter explained rather breathlessly
.  "It's where the seed is made.  They're making it all the time, so it just builds
 up in me until I can get rid of it.  So I have to do this quite often.  As the 
seed builds up I get randy, and when I get rid of it I feel normal again, for a 
time."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 had never heard the word 'randy' before, but she immediately understood what her
 brother meant by it.  She was feeling randy herself.  Slut.  Trollop.  Strumpet
.  Words she had heard her mother use as though she had a bad taste in her mouth
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
, here it comes," her brother gasped.  Rather awkwardly he bent forward and pointed
 his prick with one hand into the cupped palm of the other.  His face twisted and
 then with a series of shudders that rocked his whole body four gouts of pale white
 fluid spurted from the little slit at the end of his prick into his hand.  After
 a fifth weaker one he gave a sigh of relief and straightened up rather tiredly.   
He gave his sister an uncertain smile.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}When it comes.....  
It feels....  I can't describe it.  Terrific.  I feel that I could do anything.  
Only I haven{\lang5129\u8216\'91}t the strength to do anything."  Susan knew he 
was talking to cover his embarrassment.  She also knew the blood had drained from
 her face and that the robe she was sitting on had a damp patch under her bottom
 her brother fortunately couldn't see.  As long as she didn't get up.  Slut.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
offered her the hand with his seed pooled in his palm.  It looked like what you'
d find in your handkerchief after a good blow if you had a cold.  Susan felt her
 lip curl with distaste and saw Peter see it.  He withdrew his hand quickly.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "No
.  Not very nice is it," he said apologetically.  Then he shrugged.  {\lang5129\u8220
\'93}But that's how you and I both started out,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he observed
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Their
 father had squirted some of that goo into their mother, and out of it she had grown
. And Peter.  And Edmund and Lucy.  She made a face at her brother.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I'
m sorry,{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  he said apologetically, and turned away.  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Look, thanks for.... I know now.  It was very big of you.  I won{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t try to touch you again.  And I"ll try never to forget that you're just
 my sister.  I'll....  Well, I guess I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d better just go.  See
 you in the morning."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 hadn't realised dusk had fallen until Peter ducked out of the tent, revealing the
 evening sky beyond.  Unable to move she heard his feet on the sand, a swirl of 
water as he washed his hand in the pool and then a silence descend, broken only 
by the splash of the waterfall.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Slowly
 she raised a hand and cupped one of her breasts beneath her robe.  It felt warm
 and heavy, ripe with promise.  There was more to being a woman than growing breasts
, she realised.  She{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d seen what the sight of her naked body
 had done to her brother.  She had felt what the sight of his rearing prick had 
done to her.  This was what her mother had warned her about.  At the time she had
 thought it was just a case of saying no to a boy who'd made a naughty suggestion
.  Now she knew she had a fight on her hands.  A fight with herself.  Slut.  Trollop
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Wearily
 she lifted herself off the edge of the chair and examined the damp patch on her
 robe.  It was nowhere near as big as she had expected but it was very real, and
 very wet.  Carefully she washed the salt from her body and the stickiness from 
between her thighs.  Then she dressed and climbed the staircase slowly to her pavilion
 looking for something light to eat and her bed, relieved that Peter was nowhere
 to be seen.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 came awake not knowing how long she had been asleep, although it had clearly been
 some while as it had still been only dusk when she had retired to her bed and now
 the moon was high, the first full moon since Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s visit 
to the Dryads for their Spring Dance.  Its light was strong enough to penetrate 
the thick oiled weave of the woollen outer tent and the finer inner one woven from
 some plant fibre and to throw slight shadows under the furniture of her bed chamber
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Then
 she heard the song.  It had been there all the time but as her senses assembled
 themselves from sleep it took her some time to separate it from the moonglazed 
air itself.   The voice was like a saw played with a violin bow she had once heard
 played by a busker in a London street, far higher than any human voice was capable
 of but far purer than the sharp-toothed harmonics of the saw.   The song was like
 moonlight playing on the surface of a quiet sea, a smooth undulation underlain 
by a play of sparkling cross-rhythms and intricate textures.  The words were distinct
 and in no language Susan had ever heard before, soft and sibilant like gentle waves
 breaking on a beach of soft sun-warmed sand.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
drew her from the bed and to the foyer of the pavilion where she slipped through
 the hangings to stand before it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 world outside was unreal beneath the moon.   The bay was a pool of liquid moonlight
 edged by a silver beach within a ring of black shadow cast by the cliffs.  Just
 within the water edging the beach directly beneath Susan a mermaid was swimming
 lazily on her back, combing her hair and singing.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Belrath
," Susan hissed at her Centaur who was standing in his accustomed position just 
outside whatever door she happened to be behind at the time, his bow with arrow 
nocked as usual in his hands.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Do you see that?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 There
 was no response.  Startled, Susan stared at the huge man-horse who had never before
 ignored his Queen.  He was standing like a moon-silvered statue gazing out to sea
 giving not the slightest sign that he was aware of her existence at his side.  
Neither the chest of the man nor the horse part of him moved to even indicate he
 was breathing.  He had been entranced, Susan realised, presumably by the song of
 the mermaid.  Mermaids could do that to males, she seemed to remember reading in
 a fairy story somewhere.  Glancing across to Aldur standing guard outside King 
Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s tent, she saw he was similarly transfixed.  Looking 
around her she could see nothing moving at all.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 song of the mermaid streamed past her as the creature swam lazy figures of eight
 just a few yards off the beach.  Susan had never heard of mermaids being included
 among her subjects and she was not at all sure if Narnia extended any distance 
out to sea.  Somehow, though, she knew the creature was waiting for her and for 
all the devastating effect it had on the Centaurs its song seemed nothing more than
 an exquisite melody to Susan.  She certainly sensed no threat or danger from it
 or in it.  Slowly she descended her staircase to the beach and crossed the sand
 towards the creature.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 From
 the navel up it was all woman, an exquisitely beautiful young woman with full breasts
, an angelic face and hair to her waist that shone like silver in the moonlight.  
Below her hips began the fish tail most of which was below the surface supporting
 her torso above it, but the few rows of scales Susan could see, wetted by the water
 lapping at them, glittered like a wide belt of huge rainbow diamonds.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 was singing, her mouth open and lovely lips shaping the sounds, with the song no
 louder to Susan at the edge of the sea than it had been on the top of the cliff
.  Her eyes, bright as tears in the moonlight,  were fixed on Susan and she raised
 both hands to greet her, and beckon to her as a girl might reach out to a long-
lost sister.  A wide-eyed, rational part of Susan's mind warned her that it might
 not be a good idea but the caution had no effect on the rest of it as she slipped
 out of her nightgown at the edge of the sea and waded naked into it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 mermaid retreated as Susan advanced, beckoning her deeper.  Beyond the mermaid 
Susan saw the moon-crystalled surface of the bay shatter as a dolphin broke through
 it to leap high into the air shedding droplets like pearls and then cleave nose
-first into the sea soundlessly and with barely a splash.  Again and again it arched
 out of the water as though revelling in the effortless power of its lithe body, 
each time drawing closer to Susan and the mermaid.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 water had reached Susan's arm-pits when the dolphin{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s head 
gently broke the surface next to the mermaid and its shining bottle nose affectionately
 rubbed her flank and nuzzled beneath a breast.  With her eyes still on Susan's 
and the song tumbling unbroken from her lips the mermaid stroked the dolphin{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s head with a gentle hand.  In a swirl of moon-burning water the dolphin
 submerged and moments later Susan felt a round beak nudge her warningly behind 
the knees.  Puzzled Susan braced herself and with an explosion of power the dolphin
 surged between her legs, parting them, at the same time rising between them until
 she was lifted from the sand, sitting on the dolphin's back with her calves hard
 against its flippers.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Strength
 undulated through his body as he accelerated, the water foaming around Susan's 
waist forcing her to tighten her legs on his sides to prevent herself being swept
 off his back.  That the dolphin was male she knew without really knowing how.  
Its greeting of the mermaid had certainly been the intimate sexual caress of a lover
 and there was a power coursing through its body which seemed to her to be pure 
maleness, but in truth she accepted that she knew without knowing how just as she
 accepted what was happening to her with a calm serenity, untroubled by the one 
small, rational part of her mind which was yelling in alarm as the dolphin bore 
her at exhilarating speed far out of her depth into the centre of the bay.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Water
 tore at her, creaming ever faster and harder over her hips and waist as the dolphin
 accelerated with hard sweeps of his tail behind her.  When the grip of her knees
 on his sides began to slip the dolphin rose in the sea until his back was almost
 clear of it, and still he accelerated until plumes of water were arching away from
 either side of Susan's knees like the bow-wave of a speedboat and her heart was
 singing with exhilaration.  Playfully the dolphin dipped his head and a sudden 
small wave surged across his back to slap the insides of Susan's thighs and, tunnelled
 by them, surge foaming through the tiny gap between the dolphin's back and her 
fanny.  Water at speed combed through her crack, tugging at the folds and little
 fingers of flesh she had there and playfully licking at the entrance to her hole
, sending shivers of delight through her.  The dolphin porpoised gently again and
 again at speed, sending little waves one after another boiling against the hair
 between her legs to be sucked away beneath her body, toying with her crack and 
its wrinkled contents and swirling tantalisingly at the entrance to her hole on 
its way.  Susan wilted as the delightful sensations tingled up her spine and melted
 in her arms and legs.  Lying back along the dolphin{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s spine
 with its dorsal fin between her shoulder-blades she presented her crack more upright
 to the teasing waves, letting them slap and squeeze the tingling flesh there and
 press probing fingers of water right inside her hole.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Abruptly
 and disappointingly the dolphin slowed and arrowed downwards.  To avoid going down
 with him she released the hold of her knees and slid from his back, the tip of 
his dorsal fin fleetingly kissing her singing crack.  Water surged to her neck and
 she knew she was at the centre of bay way out of her depth with the shore much 
further away than she could possibly swim.  The small rational part of her brain
 screamed with panic, but even as it did so the slim arms of the mermaid slipped
 beneath her shoulders and she felt herself born up again with the back of her head
 supported out of the water on the soft cushion of the mermaid{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s breasts.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 mermaid was still crooning and her hands cupped and began caressing Susan's breasts
, her long fingers toying with her nipples.  Little sparkles like moonlight on the
 wavelets of the bay tingled from them into the growing sweet turmoil of her body
.  The mermaid began drawing her backwards, her stomach warm and smooth against 
Susan's back and the hard glassy platelets of the scales on her tail caressing Susan
's bottom.  With the motion Susan's body was drawn to the surface and she floated
 easily watching the waves ripple along the sides of her stomach and thighs, occasionally
 breaking across them as she bobbed, to swirl in the tuft of hair on her pubis rising
 above the water like a desert island.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Then
 the dolphin was there, nuzzling her legs open and working its way between them.  
Its blunt bottle nose investigated her crack, pressing it, and a warm soft tongue
 lapped at it, waking more tingles to join with those pouring from her nipples as
 the mermaid's fingers teased them.   Drowning in a sea of delight on her watery
 bed Susan spread her legs wider for the dolphin, arched her back to press her breasts
 harder into the mermaid's hands, and moaned.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 mermaid moved, twisting her body around Susan's, and her lips came down on the 
Queen's for a kiss.  Aware but untroubled by the fact she was being kissed by a 
girl in a way she would never have allowed a boy to kiss her, Susan parted her lips
 and met the mermaid's tongue with her own.  Then the mermaid breathed into her, 
a strong draft of air as thick as water which filled Susan's lungs and overflowed
 into her blood where it coursed hotly through her veins.  Lingeringly the mermaid
 ended the kiss, leaving Susan quivering and wondering, and then with a flip of 
her tail she flashed out from under her.  Yet even as Susan became aware of the 
watery depths beneath her the dolphin surged forward, his body sliding up her stomach
 and breasts, forcing her beneath the surface.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
bore her down, spread-eagled against his body.  In a panic Susan tried to twist 
away but the dolphin met it and held her trapped against him.  She had to breath
, breathed and realised she was breathing beneath the surface, her lungs contentedly
 recycling the breath the mermaid had given her.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 dolphin's body coiled with power against hers.  His flippers were in her hands 
like the handlebars of a pushbike and she was gripping either flank of the dolphin
 with her knees just as she had when she had ridden his back, but this time beneath
 him.  The dolphin rippled against her again, driving them both forward through 
the water, and the rounded end of something nudged against her crack, which was 
wide open to it.  Hugging the dolphin's body closer to hers, Susan knew what was
 happening.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Far
 above them, beyond the dark curving flanks of the dolphin's body, the surface of
 the bay glittered under the moonlight like a minutely shattered mirror beneath 
a thousand flashing lights.  Beneath Susan and the dolphin the white sand bed of
 the bay rippled with the constant motion of a thousand shadows while the void in
 which the girl and dolphin floated was pierced by a myriad of fleeting spears of
 vertical light.  It was a beautiful sight but Susan, her lungs filling and emptying
 regularly with the mermaid{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s breath, closed her eyes, braced
 herself against the dolphin's body and prepared for his penis to penetrate her.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
pressed against the entrance to her hole and her flesh, not big enough for it, resisted
.  The dolphin curled its body easily and Susan felt something give way in her crack
 as the Dolphin's prick casually split her open.  Pain lanced through her body but
 her mind, numbed by the mermaid{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s song, noted but didn't feel
 it.  She did feel the dolphin's prick slide into her hole and she stretched her
 own body to welcome it.  It filled her, huge and satisfying.  In joyous triumph
 the dolphin lashed its tail, driving them both through the water and upwards, and
 each flick of its tail made its prick slip back and forth in Susan's vagina sending
 waves of almost unbearable delight through her. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 beast with two backs burst through the glass ceiling of the bay and the dolphin
 twisted in the air to carry the girl on top through the arching flight, her body
 clamped to his by the hard rod of flesh inside her.  Susan gulped a fresh lungful
 of air and then the sea crashed around her again, hissing in her ears and pulling
 at her hair.  The body of the dolphin curled around hers, driving its prick even
 deeper inside her, and then unleashed its strength to drive them hard through the
 dark void of the sea, the pressure of the water on Susan's shoulders forcing her
 back down the dolphin's body and impaling her even more firmly on his hard flesh
 inside her while each surge of power through his tail worked it back and forth 
inside her as she clung desperately to the leading edge of his flippers and squeezed
 ever harder with her knees to hold herself in the right position to keep herself
 open to him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 a twist that ground the pole inside her almost brutally the dolphin changed direction
 and they exploded vertically out of the water to arrow high above it.  Susan's 
knees lost her grip and as they slowed to hang motionless in the air above the moonlit
 sea almost her entire weight forced her down on the dolphin{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s prick, the front of her crack crushed between it and the dolphin{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s rough moonslicked skin.  She heard herself scream with ecstasy as every nerve
 in her body burned with an unbearable explosion of joy while the dolphin shrilled
 a whistle at the edge of human hearing and a hot, soft cloud of seed jetted from
 its prick to scald Susan's insides, fill her passage to bursting and stream like
 lava from her hole to scour her crack and coat her thighs.  Then they toppled and
 fell, Susan held against the dolphin for a moment merely by the strength of his
 prick inside her and then sliding off it to plummet by herself into the moonglazed
 bay and down into the thick, soft, waiting blackness beneath the surface.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28   She
 came to lying her back on the sand at the edge of the sea, little waves lapping
 lovingly against her body as she stared panting at the moon, feeling as weak as
 a baby.  She could hear distant shouting and marshalled her senses.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 fanny hurt.  Her insides felt bruised and her crack was painfully sore, sending
 sharp jabs of pain through her thighs as she moved.  She heard her name being called
 in Peter's voice and the clatter of feet on the staircases at the head of the beach
.  Fighting her weariness she dragged herself deeper into the sea and there quickly
 washed the biggest smears of the dolphin#s semen from her thighs, together with
 the blood she knew would be there.  When Peter arrived, feet scuffing on the sand
, she was crawling towards her gown at the edge of the sea a few yards away.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "My
 robe," she snapped at him.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}And send all the rest away.  I
'm all right.{\lang5129\u8221\'94} She heard her brother issue the orders and a 
moment later her robe was spread over her.  She wrapped it around her as best she
 could and climbed wearily to her feet.  She wavered and Peter had to support her
.  She could feel blood and dolphin goo sliding down the insides of her legs and
 didn't want her brother or anyone else to see it.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Sue
?  What happened?  What on earth have you been doing?  How did you get here?"\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 took a deep, steadying breath.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Didn't anyone see?" She asked
.  Her mind was creaking into action again although shudders of delight kept shimmering
 around her body like little flares in a smouldering fire.  What, she needed to 
know, would be the reaction of her subjects to their High Queen mating with a dolphin
?  And what would Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s reaction be to her doing with a dolphin
 what she refused to do with him?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 See?  See what?" Her brother asked.  "Belrath says he suddenly saw
 you lying there on the edge of the sea and thought you were drowned.  Of course
 you'd forbidden him or anyone else to come down here so all he could do was fetch
 me.  He}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s furious, both that you got away from him, and damn
 nearly died when he was supposed to be looking after you."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 I didn't damn near die," she snapped crossly, wondering if it was
 true.  Presumably the dolphin or the mermaid had carried her to the sea}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 s edge after she had passed out, or she certainly would have drowned.  
If the mermaid had maintained the song until then it was probable that neither of
 the Centaurs nor any other of the males supposedly on guard had seen anything.  
But what had it all been about?\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 There
 was an anger in her brother's voice, too, that betrayed he{\lang5129\u8217\'92}
d had a bad shock, which was a measure of his concern for her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
just thought I'd go for a swim.  In the nude," she said, trying to sound contrite
.  "Like you dared me to earlier.  Got a bit out of my depth, that{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s all."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "All
?"  Peter snorted.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}How did you get past Belrath?  He's fit
 to explode."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 If I can't outwit a horse....."  She giggled.  Her body felt like
 jelly and her fanny hurt.  Her brother had his arm around her back and under her
 arm to support her and she knew how much he wanted to reach just a few inches further
 and fondle her breast.  And she knew that Peter, having promised, wouldn}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 t.  \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 They
 had reached the top of the beach and she pushed Peter gently away, slipped out 
of her robe and tumbled into the pool beneath the waterfall.  The cliff-top was 
lined with figures from myth as well as talking animals roused by the commotion 
but after having been touched up by a mermaid and - what was the word she'd heard
 used by some of the older girls at school in far off England?  Fucked? - yes, fucked
 by a dolphin, it hardly seemed to matter that they would have momentarily seen 
their High Queen naked in the moonlight\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 water was fresh and bearably cold, clearing her mind still more.  She splashed 
about for a while in the moonlight, discretely washing away more dolphin goo as 
it oozed out of her fanny.  She hoped that the bleeding in her crack, caused when
 the dolphin had rammed his prick into it, had stopped.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 had been chasing away the onlookers and now returned.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Can I have my robe?}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  She asked.  He picked it
 up from where she had dropped it and brought it to her, wading into the pool to
 her side.  She rose dripping in thigh-deep water and saw his eyes on her wet naked
 body in the moonlight.  She was torturing him.  Her fanny was sore, she felt as
 if all her bones had turned to rubber, her breasts were aching and her nipples 
felt as if they had been rubbed hard with sandstone .  Her knees were on the edge
 of buckling and she doubted she had the strength to lift her arms high enough to
 put the robe on properly so she draped it around her shoulders.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "There
 was a mermaid," she told her brother softly.  "Out there."  She nodded at the moonlit
 bay.  "Oh, she was beautiful.  You should have seen her." Perhaps it was better
 Peter hadn't, she decided.  The mermaid{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s breasts had been 
much prouder and firmer than her own.  "She was singing.  I think she{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}d sung everyone else to sleep."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Was
 she after you?" Peter asked urgently.  "Working for the White Witch, perhaps?"\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 No."  Susan shook her head firmly.  "If she had been, I'd be drowned
." She was sure the mermaid had meant her no harm.  It had all been so that the 
dolphin could fuck her.  \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 knew that rape was when a girl was fucked when she didn't want to be.  One the 
older girls at her school in London had been raped.  Everyone knew it, although 
it had been hushed up for reasons she hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t then understood
.  Had she been raped?   She hadn't gone into the sea intending to let a dolphin
 fuck her.   The thought had never crossed her mind.  Yet as she climbed dripping
 from the pool she had to admit that she had known what the dolphin was going to
 do before he had done it, and that she had opened herself to it.  Her heart had
 leapt with joy when she had first felt its prick reach between her legs and she
 had clung to the animal, holding herself steady so that it could penetrate her 
and reach deep inside her when she knew she could have avoided it by letting go 
to be swept away in the water.  That didn't sound like rape to her.  She had wanted
, really wanted, the dolphin, a mere animal, to fuck her.  If there was anything
 worse than a slut she was it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
think she just wanted to say hello," she said to Peter.  "I wonder if she was a 
Narnian.  I'll have to ask someone.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 wearily climbed the steps off the beach, ignoring her brother shepherding her anxiously
 at her side.  Of course, he had fucked the Queen of the Dryads at their Spring 
Festival.  Perhaps Narnia's High Queen had to be fucked by a dolphin as part of 
some ceremony or other.  But if it had been part of some rite it was clear that 
no-one in the Camp had been aware it had been going to happen, for the shadows between
 the tents and pavilions were full of worried and puzzled Narnain talking-animals
.  And it certainly hadn't seemed very ceremonial.  It had just been a dolphin and
 a mermaid at play.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Belrath
, stiff with anger and silent reproach, fell in at her other side, his hooves stamping
 out his feelings on the short turf of the cliff-top.  Unable to face him she ignored
 him and brushed her way through the drapes into her Royal Pavilion.  Inside Hennin
, Pel, Edor and a dozen servants in Palace livery waited anxiously to serve and 
she ordered them all out rather curtly, for she didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t want 
to risk anyone seeing the trickle of blood and dolphin sperm still dribbling out
 of her fanny and down her legs.  There had been a couple of fairies among the servants
 but not Peaseblossom who for some reason had not come on the trip.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 realised that she missed the little fairy.  In some way she was different to the
 others.  They all laughed and sang, played silly games and darted about the Palace
 like gnats, Peaseblossom as much as any of them, and they were all bright as buttons
 and chatty, yet only Peaseblossom seemed to listen when you talked to her, and 
offered responses which suggested she'd thought seriously about what you{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}d said.   Suddenly Susan was aware that she wanted to tell Peaseblossom
 what had really happened out in the bay, and wanted to hear what Peaseblossom would
 say about it.  But Peaseblossom wasn't there and so, after wiping her crotch clean
 and tying a pad between her legs like she had to when she was having what her mother
 had called a 'monthly'. she fell weary and alone back into her bed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy Peaseblossom, in the guise of a mermaid, slipped lithe as a seal onto a low
 rock in the moonlight at the entrance to the bay and looked back at the dolphin
 swimming in lazy circles beyond the flukes of her tail.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Why not let it fertilize her?}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  the voice of 
the dolphin whined in her mind.  "The sea-people need fresh blood, and the seamaid
 that would slip from her cunt would be beautiful.  As beautiful as you."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 White Witch heard the yearning in his voice.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Tush
, father," she admonished him angrily.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Stop thinking with 
your prick.  The blood of a Daughter of Eve in one the seamaids would be a challenge
 even to me.  And she certainly wouldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t let your scrawny prick
 into her.  And what if our High Queen bore a Merrow instead?  Eh?  I don't want
 to have to deal with one of that kind once I have my Narnia back."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 reached behind her into a crevice in the rock and withdrew a wand.  With a negligent
 wave she flicked it in the direction of the dolphin.  There was a swirl in the 
water and the old man surfaced, flailing his arms in panic and choking.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Bitch," he cursed between spasms.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Unmoved
 the proud-breasted mermaid watched him frantically dog-paddle the few yards to 
the rock and drag his skinny, naked body onto the sharp, slimy refuge where he lay
 spluttering and coughing up salt water.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Besides
," the mermaid said thoughtfully.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Now that we've rid her of
 the burden of her virginity I have other plans for Her Majestic Highness Susan, 
Pro Temp High Queen of Narnia.  And she's not going to have the slightest interest
 in having your prick, her brother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s prick or anything else 
in her cunt while she has a mythical marine mammal growing in it, is she?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 old man grunted grudging agreement and then rolled onto his back, fondling his 
erect penis.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 I've never fucked a mermaid," he declared, eyes feasting on his daughter
's proud breasts.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Liar
," the White Witch told him with a snarl.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Not
 in human form," the old man expostulated innocently.  "It always has to be as one
 of those fucking fish."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "The
 dolphin is a mammal," his daughter said wearily.  "Fish don't fuck."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Poor
 things."  The old man feigned surprise.  "Nothing worth living for.  But as you
're already there.......   Before I change you back.  You do want me to change you
 back, don't you?"  A light, tentative threat underlay the innocent question.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 White Witch stared him down, tapping the slim wand in the palm of her hand warningly
.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Don't forget I need to you to fuck Her Little Majesty, Queen
 Lucy, soon.  If you go off half-cock then, it won't do much for the noble Aslan
's reputation.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Don
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t you worry about that, my evil darling," the old man told 
her with a leer.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}My prick would rise from the dead to give
 that one's little cunt a reaming.  And just now it's raring to give your little
 fishy cunt one.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Seamaids
 fuck under water," his daughter told him sourly.  "You're no good to me drowned
.  No yet, anyway."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Then you'll have to break a habit of a species then, won}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 t you," the old man declared, climbing awkwardly to his feet with his
 prick in his hand.  With a palpable sigh the mermaid slithered off the ledge she
 had been reclining on and bent backwards over it, balancing on the small of her
 back with the flukes of her shimmering four-foot long tail brushing the rock.\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "You
'd better hurry up," she told the old man from between clenched teeth.  "This is
 fucking uncomfortable.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Deliberately
 the old man straddled the gleaming tail, groped for and found the little slit in
 the shining scales and eased his penis through it into the hot, slippery passage
 that lay behind it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "No
," he observed thoughtfully as he slowly shafted his daughter's fishy tail.  "I'
d have said it was uncomfortable fucking."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f0\lang2057\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 4\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-307{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-307\ri-1270{\f0\lang2057\fs24
\kerning28      High King Peter of Narnia  woke in his pavilion by the little bay
 in the early morning light feeling wearier than he had on going the bed the previous
 evening.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-307\ri-1270{\f0\lang2057\fs24
\kerning28      He felt as though he had been up half the night, perhaps because
 he had.    Belrath had raised the alarm at Queen Susan's little excursion into 
the sea around midnight, waking him from an early deep sleep, and having eventually
 seen Susan back to her pavilion he had called a Council of War in his own and raised
 with his generals and advisors the questions that were concerning him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-307\ri-1270{\f0\lang2057\fs24
\kerning28     Narnia, he had learned, ended wherever the sea started and the seafolk
 were certainly not his subjects.  Indeed, they had very little to do with Narnians
 and Narnians had even less to do with them but there was no history of any discord
 let alone outright hostility between the two peoples.  There was certainly no evidence
 that the White Witch had any influence over the seafolk and while they hadn't fought
 against her in the recent war they had done nothing to support her either.  Indeed
 the silence from the senior talking animals which had immediately greeted Peter
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s question on the point suggested that they had never previously
 even wondered where the seafolk stood on the matter.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-307\ri-1270{\f0\lang2057\fs24
\kerning28     {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Of course," a venerable old talking badger offered
 thoughtfully. "When word reached them that Narnia was once again ruled by her rightful
 sovereigns it{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s no surprise that they should want to make contact
 with them."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-307\ri-1270{\f0\lang2057\fs24
\kerning28      In the silence which followed Peter was sure he was not the only
 one to ask himself why such contact would be so informal, and with Narnia{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s High Queen rather than her High King who was the senior.  Or why they
 should half drown her in the process.  However as Peter had already arrived at 
the conclusion that with his entirely land-based forces there was practically nothing
, and certainly nothing practical, he could do about it he let the matter rest.  
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-307\ri-1270{\f0\lang2057\fs24
\kerning28      Of greater concern was the fact that of his entire army, and the
 second army of servants, cooks, clerks and bottle-washers which he had with him
, only the fairies had been immune to the song of the mermaid and not been entranced
.  In the face of Peter's fury when he discovered this and the fact that they had
 done nothing about it, most of them melted away into the darkness.  From the ones
 he managed to nail in place with a direct order he learned that they had known 
nothing of Susan's response or of any potential danger to her, and so had merely
 thought the whole thing one huge joke.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-307\ri-1270{\f0\lang2057\fs24
\kerning28 Peter fumed, but believed them and anyway could do nothing about it.  
Whereas the Centaurs had a complete hierarchy based on families and clans in which
 each man-horse knew exactly where he stood, who took precedence to whom and who
 could order whom about, and were utterly fanatical about observing it, the fairies
 were the entire opposite.  They seemed to have no kinship whatever and certainly
 no formal pecking-order.  Indeed they rarely interacted with each other at all 
except to play chase-me games like lambs in a paddock or spring spontaneous tricks
 on anyone of any species as the mood took them.  Ask any one of them the whereabouts
 of another and unless she was in sight the first would look confused and claim 
not to know, which Peter thought was probably true.  Make a request on one which
 involved others and eventually it happened but Peter suspected even the fairies
 themselves couldn't have told him how it happened.  It just did.  In battle they
 would be as useful as a paper hat but Peter had experimented using them as messengers
, as they seemed to be able to fly quite fast if the mood took them.  An hour after
 giving one an experimental message to take immediately to the other end of Narnia
 he had met her again in one of the corridors and as it had been at one of those
 times he was on a short fuse because of his unsatisfied needs he had yelled at 
her.  Cowering and in tears she had explained that she had passed the message on
, though she couldn't remember which fairy she had passed in on to, its destination
 or indeed the message itself.  In a rage Peter had stomped off but in a remarkably
 short time a reply arrived delivered by a fairy who couldn't remember who had given
 it to her or where, and who having delivered it, promptly forgot it.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-307\ri-1270{\f0\lang2057\fs24
\kerning28      Subsequent experimental messages produced the same result to the
 extent that Peter had come to trust and rely on what had become known as fairy-
mail even though he, and it seemed quite probably the fairies themselves, had no
 idea how it actually worked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Under
 question the fairies themselves cheerfully admitted that there was nothing they
 could do to prevent others falling victim to the song of the mermaid, or wake anyone
 who did.  In consequence any plans to use the fairies' immunity as any kind of 
protection or weapon against it were pointless but for what it was worth Peter did
 ask that a fairy attach herself to Belrath and Dethenor to do what she could.   
The fairy he gave the request to nodded vaguely, drifted off to spend a couple of
 minutes helping a spider repair a hole in her web made by a talking-dog sentry 
and then flew off idly.  Peter knew there would be no conference, no briefing or
 setting up of rostas or even any discussion among the fairies as to whom and when
 and for how long, but from past experience he was confident that there would be
 a fairy somewhere near his own or his sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Centaur guardian
 from now on.  For whatever than was worth.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
wished Peaseblossom was in the camp.  As the whole trip had been her idea he had
 assumed she would come along but there had been no sign of her while the fairy 
Peter had asked in a casual manner about Peaseblossom had looked blank as though
 she had never heard of a fairy with that name, which was typical of them.  Disgruntled
 he rolled over in his bed and his hand stole to his stiff, eager prick.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Since
 that first amazing occasion when Peaseblossom had taken his prick in her mouth 
and sucked his spunk from him she had visited him several times.  It had always 
been at night, when he had half-woken from a deep sleep to feel the little warm, 
naked body of the creature slip into his bed and beneath the blankets to his midriff
.  Tiny hands had stroked and caressed his prick into life and a little wet tongue
 had licked and played with his balls and shaft until in an exquisite moment as 
the hot lava began boiling in it a small mouth covered it and received the explosion
.  Afterwards the little fairy had always delicately cleaned it up with her mouth
 and tongue, sucking the last dregs of his ejaculation from its tip as though sipping
 dew from a strawberry.  Then with a giggle she would slide like an eel from his
 bed and as he slid back into a warm, contented sleep he might catch a glimpse of
 a tiny naked body darting across his room to the windows, looking very much like
 the naked six-year-old Lucy he had once caught a brief sight of in her bedroom 
when as an eleven-year-old boy he had begun to experience his very first curiosity
 about what girls were.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 In 
truth he had no reason to think those visits were always from Peaseblossom.  It 
could have been any fairy and he had long ago learned not to make arrangements concerning
 any particular one.  Ask a fairy if she would be at a particular time and place
 to carry a message and one would turn up.  Invariably not the one originally asked
, and usually one who would deny any knowledge of any pre-arrangements but who just
 happened to be there and who would be honoured to be of use carrying a message 
for her King.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 visitor to his bed, though, was always Peaseblossom.  How he knew that Peter could
 not have said, but he knew it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 His
 prick throbbed eagerly in his hand.  And although he needed her badly it was not
 throbbing at the memory of the little fairy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s mouth around 
his prick.  It was at the memory of his sister naked in the moonlight the night 
before.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
had seen her crawl naked from the sea and then later she had stood naked before 
him in the pool beneath the waterfall, her body fully revealed by the brilliant 
moonlight.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 His
 elder sister was tall, to the point that he was only half-a-head taller.  But she
 was slim with narrow shoulders and long, delicate arms.  Her upper body curved 
deeply to a narrow waist and then blossomed out again into round hips and long, 
curving legs.  On her chest barely below the level of her armpits rose two firm 
mounds tipped with pale nipples which his hands had yearned to embrace and caress
 while between  her legs a triangular lawn of short sandy hair which was just a 
shadow in the moonlight covered a soft, pouting mound split vertically by her crevice
 like a black wound.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 And
 in that crevice between his sister's legs, Peter now knew, was that hot, wet mouth
 into her body.  The soft nest into which he had pushed his prick at the Dryads 
ceremony as his sister had lain spreadeagled on the altar before him and into whose
 sensational embrace he had spurted his seed as he had stood between her legs.  
Except that it had not really been his sister, of course.  He groaned and felt his
 seed stir in his groin.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Is
 my King ready for his breakfast?{\lang5129\u8221\'94} an apologetic voice asked
 from the direction of the entrance.  Peter groaned again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
was Oakrunner, his squirrel butler who had probably been alert for any indication
 of the High King's waking since the first grey light of dawn.  As High King, Peter
 could perfectly well order the talking animal to go jump in the lake but in Peter
's opinion that is not the way High Kings were supposed to behave and so he reluctantly
 released his aching prick and rolled over in bed to begin the day.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Stepping
 from his pavilion later the first thing he saw was his sister Susan, who just happened
 to be the last thing he wanted to see.  She was standing at the cliff edge looking
 out over the bay, her light summer sleeveless dress baring her throat and chest
 to the first faint rises of her breasts and moulded to the front of her body by
 a warm breeze off the sea.  The silken material clung to her bosom and, flowing
 to the ground, folded into a valley between her legs which seemed to accentuate
 the cup of her body where her secret mouth lay, the invisible fingers of wind exploring
 her where he so yearned to explore her.  At the sight he nearly shot his load into
 his pants and, unable to bear it, he turned and stalked off.  After a few paces
 he heard her call his name but ignored it and went instead for a long, hard ride
 along the cliff-tops with a squad of heavily-armed centaurs clattering at his heels
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Returning
 later and feeling very little better he discovered she was in her pavilion and 
went to the entrance.  "Sue, can I come in?{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he called.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Of
 course," she called back.  He ducked through the open outer flap of the huge tent
, brushed through the draped inner flaps and was stopped frozen by the sight of 
his sister within.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 was sitting at her writing-desk, not yet fourteen-and-a-half to his sixteen-and
-a-big-bit and yet every inch a queen as he struggled to be a king.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 a quill in her hand she was writing a letter to either Edmund, Lucy or Peter himself
 for it had been Susan who had realised that with only two books in Narnia, and 
one of them little more than a children's picture book of King Arthur, there could
 be a real danger of them forgetting how to read and write if they stayed there 
any time, which Aslan had intimated they would be.  So she had instituted a regime
 in which she would write regular letters to her sister and brothers, and insisted
 that they write back even though they all spent most of every day in each other
's company.  It was a chore Peter found hard and annoying, but he recognised its
 necessity and joined with Susan in badgering the twins for their epistles even 
as he tried to avoid writing his own.  It had also been the cause of the creation
 of a substantial industry at Cair Paravel as good dwarves with some talking badger
-wives and a team of talking beavers, tried to manufacture and improve the quality
 of a steady supply of paper, quill pens and ink Queen Susan demanded.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
, though, saw only the way his sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s old-fashioned clothes
 wrapped to her body, smoothing over her breasts, hugging her waist, followed the
 curve of her bottom on the chair and flowed over her legs.  She was younger than
 he, had only a feather in her hand to compare with the long, sharp sword at his
 waist and was only a queen to his High King, yet in so many way she was his master
.  The desire to have sex with his sister burned in his chest like a sword in a 
dwarven blacksmith's forge yet he knew she would never allow it, being his sister
, and there was absolutely nothing he could do about it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Yes?" she asked gently.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Ah
.  Erhm."  Peter had to shake himself like a dog to get his blood flowing again.  "
I, ehm."  Then he remembered why he had called on her.  "Do you think we should 
go back?  To Cair Paravel?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 problem was that in far off England a trip to the seaside had included the pier
 with its funfair, the amusement arcades, the donkey rides,  the little rowing-boats
 on the lake, the steam-train rides, the candy-floss stalls and, the crazy-golf 
in addition to the  beach and the sea, with mother and father to organise it all
.  Here there was just the sea and the beach neither of which felt particularly 
safe after the previous night's events.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 gave a little grimace which meant that she shared his thoughts.  {\lang5129\u8220
\'93}Not really fair on Luce or Edmund, though," she offered.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}To go back early."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
was typical of his sister that she should think of others, especially as the thought
 hadn't occurred to Peter.  The younger children, though, had clearly been excited
 by the prospect of being in charge at Cair Paravel and to go back early would be
 a blatant vote of no-confidence in them.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "No
.  Of course.  You're right," Peter agreed.  She always was, he thought sourly.  
She sat in her chair, quill poised waiting for him to say more and he knew his eyes
 were devouring her body, and knew that she knew it.  With nothing to say and sure
 that his sister could see the stiff, throbbing lump in the front of his pants he
 turned and left her pavilion hastily.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Outside
, with nothing to do and nowhere to go he clattered down the staircase to the beach
, brushed aside the flaps at the entrance to his pavilion and threw himself down
 on his daybed.  His prick was stiff and uncomfortable in his pants and he unlaced
 the flap at the front  to give it more room.  His hand stole to it and he began
 working at it, resuming what had been interrupted at daybreak and shuddering as
 the waves of pleasure his hand on it created surged through him.  Then he heard
 light footsteps on the boards of the staircase and had to scramble to get his prick
 tucked away and the lacing redone before they scuffed on the sand outside the tent
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Peter
?" his sister called.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
tried to arrange himself in a High-King-like manner on the couch.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Hello, Susan," he called back cheerfully.  "Come in."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 brushed through the flaps and Peter knew instantly that she was at odds with herself
.  Something was troubling her deeply and she was unsure of herself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "What
's up, Sis?" he asked, alarmed.  With an unconscious feminine grace she folded herself
 onto a chair, hands twitching her skirts around her legs to avoid sitting on too
 much of the material.  It was a girl thing, utterly foreign to men and completely
 natural for her, and the male in Peter howled at the sight at the huge difference
 that had grown between him and his sister.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Do
 you..." she asked slowly, "Ever think of England?  Of Mother and Father?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Yes
," he said quickly.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Of course."  His sister nodded.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
wish I knew how they were.  And could let them know we are all right,"  she said
.  "Do you ever wish we were back there?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 That
 was a curly one.  Did he ever wish he was an ordinary schoolboy back in England
 again?  A drab, weak, frightened England at bloody war with a savage, powerful 
Germany or, even worse, an England conquered and occupied by the Germans.  Could
 he want that when he could be High King of a bright, gay, magical land like Narnia
?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 It would be a pity to miss this,}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  he offered
 carefully, indicating Narnia with a nod of his head.  Susan nodded her agreement
.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
wish the twins were not here, though," she said and Peter agreed.  Having Lucy and
 Edmund there was a real nuisance, although he knew that was not what his sister
 meant.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Peter."  His sister was chewing her lips and that plus the tone she
 had used for his name told him she was getting to the core of whatever it was that
 was troubling her.  "If we were back in England you'd have a girlfriend by now.  
And you'd be doing things with her that... that boys and girls do together.  I know
 I'm not as old as your girlfriend would be, and not as pretty, and I'm only your
 sister and not a real girl.  But if.... well...  if it would help I can do some
 of the things a girlfriend might.  To you.  If it would help.}\u8221\'94{\lang2057
  She fell silent, blushing furiously.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 was amazed.  "Susan, I...." he said, but with no idea what to say beyond that.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
won't go all the way," she told him defiantly.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}That wouldn
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t be right.  With my brother.  And I'm old enough to have a
 baby if we did, and I don't want that."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\li-55{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
"No.  No.  Of course," Peter agreed quickly, still amazed.  The thought of his sister
 having his baby, though, sent a flare of heat though him that lodged glowing in
 his prick.  This amazing creature who was his sister could have his baby.  It was
 unbelievable, but true.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "So
...."  She had made her offer and was waiting uncertainly for his response.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
could guess how much it went against her grain to make such an offer for his sister
 not the sort of girl who would want to do rude things with boys.  Yet clearly she
 knew how much he wanted to do rude things with her and wanted her to do rude things
 to him, and was willing to do it for his sake.  That she should be willing to ignore
 her feelings made him feel warm inside, with a glow that had nothing to do with
 sex.  It also imposed on him a powerful obligation to be just as noble and refuse
 her for her sake and that was even, he knew well enough, what she wanted him to
 do.  He was her big brother and her High King, both of which required that he protect
 her.  In Narnian terms he was a noble and to be noble meant to accept her offer
 in the spirit of love and duty it was offered, and refuse it in the same spirit
.  With a huge pang of regret he drew breath to do so but before he could speak 
his sister said reluctantly, "I mean, I could rub your thing until your seed came
, if you like.  If it would help."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
had already rubbed his thing to the point that his seed was pooled hot and under
 pressure between his legs and the thought of having his sister release the pressure
 was too sweet to resist.  "Oh Sue, it would be wonderful," he breathed.  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}That is,"  he added quickly, {\lang5129\u8220\'93}It would be so much
 better than doing it myself.  Make me feel so much better."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 His
 sister nodded, her face tight with strain.  Peter could only guess how much against
 her natural instinct what she had proposed was.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}What do I
 do?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Feeling
 oddly ashamed and awkward he unlaced his breeches again and drew his stiff penis
 out.  It stuck out of his thighs, throbbing slightly.  In a smooth motion Susan
 uncoiled from her chair, glided across the thick carpet covering the wooden planks
 laid on the sand of the beach and knelt before him, unconsciously hitching her 
skirts clear of her knees as she did so.  The woman in the motion made Peter's prick
 jerk powerfully. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28  Susan
 regarded it levelly, her face blank.  Then cautiously she took it gently in her
 hands.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 At 
the first soft touch of her fingers it twitched again powerfully and she jerked 
her hands away with little cry of surprise.  Then she took it up again more firmly
 and began running her hand up and down its shaft as he had done the previous day
 when he had masturbated in front of her.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Is this all right
?" she asked tightly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
was quite beautiful for Peter.  His sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hands on his prick
 were firm yet gentle as though she knew exactly what she was doing.  With one hand
 she gently caressed its soft blood-gorged head while with the other stroking up
 and down the shaft she summoned his semen to flood like lava up to explode from
 it.  The sensations were not as intense as Peaseblossom{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s mouth
 gave to it but looking down he could see his sister's hands on his prick and beyond
 them the first soft rises of her breasts with the valley between them disappearing
 into her dress to become her round bosom in its silken cover rising and falling
 as she breathed while above that her white face tight with strain and her eyes 
fixed on the thing in her hands as though she held a snake.  He felt his semen stir
 and recalled Susan's expression when he had shown it to her the previous day.  
If he did nothing it would soon spit at her just like a snake, which she would surely
 hate.  The rigidity of her stance, the tightness of her mouth, the intensity of
 her gaze on it all betrayed how much she loathed what she was doing yet it was 
too, too good for him to want her to stop and he closed his eyes on it all and surrendered
 to the pure pleasure she was giving.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
had been right to see loathing in his sister but the cause was not what she was 
doing.  It was the fact she was loving it that she loathed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28   She
 had seen that her brother was going to refuse her offer and had suggested rubbing
 his thing to thwart him, hoping he would find the idea irresistible.  When he had
 unlaced his breeches and exposed it to her, rearing from his thighs, throbbing 
with life and utterly alien to her, she had almost rushed across the room to it 
and was sure her brother would notice her eagerness.  When she had tentatively taken
 it into her hands and it had jerked powerfully away the strength and suddenness
 of it had surprised her into yelping like a little girl startled by a spider yet
 within moments she had mastered it, had it purring in her hands like a tamed lion
 and was drinking into her soul the smooth rigidity of the pulsing shaft beneath
 her fingers, the velvety softness of its red flare-rimmed hood and the power she
 knew she had gained over her brother with such a gentle caress.  She loved it, 
thrilled to it and loathed herself for doing so.  She wanted to go further, yearned
 to lean forward and take it into her mouth to feel against her tongue the texture
 of that strawberry head, feel against her lips the throbbing tightness of the shaft
.  She could even imagine it squirting that thick yellow goo in her throat instead
 of her vagina as it yearned to, and swallowing it down to her stomach as though
 it was her womb even though Peter, surely, would be sickened and disgusted that
 she could take such a thing into her mouth.  The thought should have disgusted 
her, surely, but it didn't.  After all, she let herself be fucked by animals. She
 was a slut of the worst kind.  She disgusted herself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 thing in her hands jerked powerfully and pulsed like a heart, and she instinctively
 ducked as a gout of her brother's seed flew past her ear with surprising strength
.  It throbbed again and a second gobbet hit her, hot and sticky, on the throat 
and dribbled down onto her breast over her heart while her brother gasped his delight
. It throbbed a third time, more weakly and a pearl of semen flopped into the rumpled
 cloth in her lap as she knelt before him.  Then its rigidity was gone and she felt
 it softening in her hands yet still it quivered and more of his seed pumped out
 of the little mouth at its tip to flow like hot yellow-white lava down his shaft
 and across her fingers.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
 Sue, I'm sorry," Peter was gasping but she barely heard him.  Through the thing
 in her hands - his prick, she reminded herself - she could feel little tremors 
still quivering through his whole body, each one pumping out another small gout 
of his seed to add to the stream still oozing stickily over her fingers.  She could
 feel the blob of it on her breast, too, as it cooled and eased its tacky way down
 the slope towards the top of her dress.  It reminded her of the dolphin's seed 
tricking out of her fanny and down inside her thighs and she shivered with remembered
 pleasure.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 I should have warned you," her brother groaned, "But it happened 
too fast."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 didn't really mind.  She was still recalling, amazed, what had happened when those
 first squirts of his seed at her had rocked her brother.  In those moments he had
 been in her hands, weak, helpless and dependent as a baby.  All his strength had
 been there, responding to her fingers.  Her brother's heart and soul had fluttered
 for those seconds like a bird held in her hands to be set free in those great shouts
 of life that had burst from his prick aimed at her face, her breasts and her fanny
.  She shivered at the memory, awed and thrilled by it and the power she had sensed
 at her control in those moments, and a tremble of eager, sweet anticipation quivered
 up into her body from her fanny where the dolphin's prick had delved into her the
 night before, yearning to feel the thing in her hands filling it and stroking it
, giving such pleasure to her brother and gaining such pleasure from him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Slut
, slut, slut.  She had intended to be clinical, dispassionate, easing her brother
's needs while satisfying her curiosity but instead had been almost overwhelmed 
by her own body{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s cravings and given in to her sluttishness.  
She became aware that she had frozen and that her lips were drawn back in a snarl
 of disgust at herself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Sue, please?" Peter's voice was begging.  He'd taken a cloth - one
 of the handkerchiefs she'd had made for him - and was wiping her hand where his
 seed had dribbled over it.  }\u8220\'93{\lang2057 I know it's grotty stuff.  I 
just couldn't help it.  I'm sorry.  I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m really sorry.}\u8221
\'94{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
thought her disgust was a response to his male power.  With an effort she replaced
 the grimace with a weak grin to set him at ease and with regret she took her hands
 away from his prick.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "No
.  That{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s all right," she said.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}I should
 have been expecting it."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 gently took the rag out of his hands and cleaned the stuff off her fingers as best
 she could, and then wiped the cold smear off her chest.  The gobbet that had fallen
 into her lap had partly soaked into the fine wool and trying to dab it away only
 made it worse so she had to leave it.  Momentarily she wondered if the servants
 through whose hands the dress would pass as it was laundered would recognise what
 it was and whose it was, and what they would think about it if they did, and then
 she decided that she didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t care.  She was, after all, their
 Queen and they could like it or lump it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Sue
?" From the appeal in her brother's voice she realised he was still horrified by
 what had happened, and what he thought her reaction was to it.  She rose to her
 feet.  Peter was sitting up but his prick was still sticking out of his breeches
, drooping limply as though exhausted.  Its bulging strawberry head was half-covered
 by that odd cowl of skin like a tortoise withdrawing its head into its shell, covered
 by a coating of white sticky seed.  Gently she reached down, took the floppy thing
 in her fingers and wiped it dry, feeling it twitch weakly in response to her touch
.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "There
," she said, all motherly.  "Nice and clean."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 was silent, staring down at his prick in her hand, and she waited until he reluctantly
 raised shy, puzzled eyes to her face.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "It
's new to me," she said softly, letting him go.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}And a bit 
gooey.  But I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}ll get used to it, honest.  Did you say you have
 to do it every day?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
forced a smile.  "I can, but I don't have to.  I guess once a week or so would be
 nice."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 knew that was a compromise between his needs and what he imagined was her reluctance
 to do it.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}All right," she said.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Once
 a week it is.  And maybe on special occasions as well, hey?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 You're terrific, sis," her brother said gratefully.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\ul\f0\lang2057\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 5{\ulnone\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Queen
 Lucy of Narnia knew something had happened between her older siblings but had no
 idea what.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 had been different, cross and difficult which was not her big brother at all, when
 he had come back from his trip to see the Spring Dance of the Dryads.  Susan too
, she had noticed, had not been herself.  Lucy's big sister, whom Lucy knew better
 than anyone, had been quite and thoughtful which Lucy knew meant she was troubled
 by a Big, Important, Decision. Then he and Susan had gone to the seaside for a 
couple of days and something had happened there which had changed them both.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 would have liked to have gone on that trip to the seaside too except that being
 left at Cair Paravel as Narnia's High Queen, even if only temporarily, had more
 than made up for it. Edmund had not been the problem she had feared.  Acting on
 Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s advice (indeed, she suspected it would have been done
 anyway on Susan's orders) she had had Edmund secretly watched the whole time by
 a team of talking mice who made excellent spies.  However, apart from ordering 
a lot of servants about quite unnecessarily but harmlessly and spending a lot of
 time out with the nucleus of Narnia's first ever standing army which Peter seemed
 to think was necessary, where he had ordered them to demonstrate all sorts of manoeuvres
 and weaponry and generally pulled rank on the Centaur generals, he had behaved 
impeccably.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Then
 Peter and Susan had come back from the seaside, changed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
was hard to say how they had changed.  Well, in fact it wasn{\lang5129\u8216\'91
}t hard to say how they had changed. They were both suddenly grown-up.  Susan didn
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t snap at people any  more and seemed far more willing to let
 servants decide what needed doing and how to do it.  But she didn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t smiled or laugh as much as she had before and was always looking for or at
 Peter.  Yet she also seemed to avoid him if she could and when she couldn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t# it was obvious that both she and Peter tried to avoid touching in 
any way.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 They
 were, Lucy suddenly realised, very much like their mother and father had been.  
So while it was very easy to say how they had changed the question was, why had 
they changed so suddenly?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Was
 it because they were doing IT, and didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t want people to guess
?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 had very little idea what IT was, only that it was something grown-ups did and 
that involved the bits of their bodies between their legs.  She had thought IT was
 something only married people did and as Peter and Susan were certainly not married
, they couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t be doing it.  Or perhaps it was something you
 could do either if you were married or with your brother or sister, except that
 didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t# sound right.  A small voice kept telling her that IT
 was something you only were supposed to if you were married, and certainly weren
{\lang5129\u8216\'91}t supposed to do with your brother or sister, except that Lucy
 couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t shake off the certainty that Peter and Susan were 
doing it and that Susan certainly wouldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t be doing it if she
 wasn{\lang5129\u8216\'91}t supposed to do it with her brother, which made it all
 very confusing.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 At 
their home in London she and Susan had shared a bedroom, and that had been fun.   
However as a Queen in Narnia she not only had her own bedroom, she had a whole suite
 of rooms to herself.  She also had a young talking-beaver female called Nim to 
help her dress and undress, the fawn called Mr. Tumnus she had met on her first 
visit to Narnia and who now acted as her secretary, a solemn if not dour talking
 owl called Mrs. Peng who called herself Lucy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Maid of Honour
, whatever that meant, and who spent all day ordering all the other servants about
 and deciding what Queen Lucy should eat and wear, and a handsome, very aloof Centaur
 called Cory who was her personal bodyguard and had sworn to die to protect her.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Yet
 despite this Lucy was lonely.  During the day Peter and Susan were so busy being
 High King and High Queen that Lucy hardly ever saw them.  She also rarely saw her
 twin Edmund, but this didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t really bother her for she had 
never greatly liked him as he was always competing with her or trying to do her 
down in some way.  At nights in her own bedchamber in the big castle she didn{\lang5129
\u8216\'91}t see anyone although she knew Cory was on guard-duty in the corridor
 outside her chambers  - Lucy had no idea what he did to wile away the long night
 hours - while Mrs. Peng slept in a little room nearby so as to be within call - 
if owls slept at night, which Lucy thought they didn{\lang5129\u8216\'91}t.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Alone
, awake and restless in her big bedchamber with a huge, bright moon shining down
 on a sleeping Narnia outside Lucy gave a big sigh, slipped out from between the
 sheets, took off the linen nightgown Susan had ordered to be made for her and lay
 down naked on the bed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 In 
their last months sleeping together in their bedroom at their London home Susan 
had proudly showed Lucy how she was beginning to grow up and change into a woman
.  Little bumps had appeared on Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s chest and had been slowly
 swelling to form her breasts and a little lawn of curly tawny hair had begun to
 grow on the little, softly-mounded V between her legs.  Before Lucy{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s fascinated eyes her big sister had sometimes perched on the edge of her bed
 with her legs spread wide and her fingers holding open the crack between them while
 Lucy had been able to push at first her finger and pencils and then later on bigger
 things like hair-brush handles and candles into the hole that ran up into Susan
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s body from the crack. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 In 
the moonlight Lucy examined herself.  Now, surely, she could see beneath her nipples
 the first beginnings of the little, steep-sided mounds that had appeared like tiny
 volcanoes on her elder sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s chest.  She ran her hands down
 her smooth skin to the hard lumps that were her hip-bones but her waist was still
 as much like a boy's as a girl{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s and nothing yet like the slim
 narrowing of Susan{\lang5129\u8216\'91}s.  Her thighs were still a bit pudgy and
 between them, where the tops of her legs met and where Susan had been beginning
 to grow a small mop of tawny curls, Lucy was still as smooth and bald as an egg
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 had that cleft between her legs, though.  Susan had told her the hole in it had
 something to do with women having babies but Lucy had guessed that Susan hadn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t known very much more about it than that and hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}t pressed her about it.  Now though, with her own body a subject of intense curiosity
 for her, Lucy wished she had learned more.  Susan, she suspected, had learned a
 lot more about hers since coming to Narnia and would probably tell Lucy what she
 knew were her younger sister to ask, but somehow it didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t 
seem right to ask.  Especially as Lucy couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t shake off the
 idea that Susan was doing a lot of her learning about her body with her big brother
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s help, and might not be happy have Lucy or anybody else know
 it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
's finger slipped into her crack and explored the little folds and wrinkles that
 lay within it.  She was still younger than Susan had been when first Susan had 
announced that her breasts had begun growing while the hair had started appearing
 between her legs even later than that.  Indeed, Lucy was still a few months short
 of twelve and Susan had been older than that when she had started, Lucy was sure
.  So she just had to be patient, she told herself.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 finger found the little hole into her body and wormed its way into it.  The usual
 little tickles of pleasure began tingling in her tummy.  Presumably that was what
 Susan had felt when Lucy had wriggled her fingers inside her big sister's hole.  
Lucy reflected that it would have been nice if Susan had been there to put her fingers
 inside Lucy's hole so she could have lain back and concentrated on the sensation
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 a discontented sigh Lucy slid her fingers out of her hole, wriggled across her 
huge bed and lifted a candle out of a holder sitting on a bedside table.  With careful
 concentration she lay back, opened her legs as wide as she could and then worked
 the candle up her hole as far as it would go.  It was as thick a candle as any 
she had ever pushed up her sister's hole, perhaps as thick as her two fingers, and
 she could get six or seven inches up inside her before  it started to press uncomfortably
 against her tummy.  Susan had been nearly six months older when she had first had
 a candle inside her hole, Lucy recalled with satisfaction.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Awkwardly
 she lay back, trying at the same time to keep enough of a hold on the candle to
 be able to jiggle it inside her.  Having someone else to do it would be nice, she
 decided.  Then she could lay back properly as Susan had done while Lucy had jiggled
 a candle inside her.  It was still nice, though.  Like being able to scratch an
 itch you{\lang5129\u8216\'91}ve had to ignore for ages, or being able to start 
peeing when you{\lang5129\u8217\'92}ve been holding it for hours, but lasting a 
lot longer.  With a little moan of delight Queen Lucy of Narnia closed her eyes, 
rolled onto her side on her bed and curled up slightly with one leg in the air so
 that she could jiggle the candle more thoroughly in her hole.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Lucy."  She heard her name spoken in a deep, warm, soft, growl.  
With a squeak of alarm she opened her eyes, and then gave another squeak.  "Aslan
."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 bedchamber was comfortably big enough to hold a dozen people around the big bed
, but seemed only just large enough for the huge golden lion she saw pacing back
 and forth between the massive, empty hearth and the wide arched windows with their
 long drop to the moat beneath.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Aslan
 was Narnia{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s guardian in a way Lucy did not really understand
.  It was, Peter had tried to explain to her, as if the United States of America
 had a real live, magical, talking eagle looking after it instead of a pretend one
, but Lucy still hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t understood.  What she did know was that
 Aslan had returned to Narnia at the same time the children had first found their
 way there through the wardrobe, had allowed the White Witch to sacrifice him on
 the Stone Table but then magically returned to life, had broken the White Witch
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s power, had helped Peter lead the good animals of Narnia in
 a battle against the White Witch{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s forces and had been there
 to oversee the children{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Coronation as Kings and Queens of
 Narnia.  After the Coronation Aslan had disappeared and had not been seen since
, until now.  Quite why Aslan had allowed the White Witch to conquer Narnia and 
bring so much suffering to its inhabitants in the first place was a question that
 had occurred to Lucy, but not one she had felt able to ask anyone.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 lion in her bedchamber was the size of a small horse and muscled to match.  Even
 on her feet Lucy would not be as tall as the top of his back and his head seemed
 almost the size of an ordinary lion curled into a ball, if they did it the way 
ordinary cats did.  She would have had no difficulty putting her whole head in his
 mouth like they were supposed to do in circuses, except there was no way you could
 imagine Aslan putting up with being in a circus.  He was more than a little scary
 even when you knew he was 100% good.  His golden tawny skin gave off a kind of 
sunshiny glow and his great eyes fixed on Lucy as he paced were sparkling with fun
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Awed
 and excited Lucy sat up and her insides were prodded painfully by the candle. Suddenly
 she remembered that she was lying on her bed with no clothes on and a candle sticking
 very visibly out of the hole between her wide-apart legs.  She squealed again in
 shock and shame, blushed furiously trying to hide the candle in her crack with 
her hands and burst into tears.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Lucy,}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  the lion rumbled again, a little sadly
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang2057 Don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t be ashamed.  You have entered
 upon that difficult passage from childhood to womanhood.  It is only natural you
 will be curious.  It is why I have come to you.  To help you at this time.  But
 you may remove the candle if you are uncomfortable.}\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 was uncomfortable, and not just because it was poking hard at her insides.  Still
 crying with shame and shock she slid it out of her hole while trying to pretend
 she wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t trying to slide something out of her hole, and placed
 it on her bedside table.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 My favourite Daughter of Eve," the lion rumbled in what was almost
 a purr.  "You had the candle inserted into your vagina, which is more popularly
 known as your cunt.  This is the passage which connects your womb to the outside
 world.  Oh yes, Lucy.  You have a womb.  Through your cunt a Son of Adam will introduce
 his seed into your womb where, if it is to be, it will germinate and grow into 
a child which will be born into the world through your cunt."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
," Lucy observed faintly, fighting back her sobs.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Come
 with me,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} the lion ordered, turning away.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 scrambled off the bed and reached for her discarded nightgown but with its back
 to her the lion growled slightly, "You will not need that.  Stand on the dressing
 table and climb onto my back."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
's heart was still thumping painfully against her ribs from the shock and sudden
 excitement of Aslan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s appearance, and the thought of being 
carried by the lion through the corridors of Cair Paravel with no clothes on did
 nothing to quiet it.  Nevertheless she obediently dropped the nightgown and climbed
  naked onto the dressing table from a chair.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 had taken horse-riding lessons at her school and had also ridden some of the dumb
 ponies in Narnia because she enjoyed it.  Somewhat awkwardly, not having a stirrup
, she scrambled onto the lion{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s back and arranged herself just
 behind his shoulders and thick, tousled, golden mane.  Aslan's back was broader
 than any pony she had ridden and her legs and thighs were stretched wide apart 
with her crack and fanny pressed against his short fur.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Hold
 tight, and close your eyes," Aslan ordered and, burying her hands in his mane, 
Lucy obeyed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 felt the muscles of his body ripple and tighten between her thighs as he gathered
 himself and his fur tickled and caressed her crack excitingly.  Then he launched
 himself forward and upward, almost leaving Lucy behind.  She recovered and braced
 herself for the inevitable impact with the stone wall of her bedroom, but it didn
{\lang5129\u8216\'91}t come.  An intensely cold wind momentarily brushed her naked
 skin and then she felt the lion{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s front paws come to earth 
just as a pony{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hooves did on the landing side of a jump.  
Her own body responded with a practised smoothness and her fanny slid forward a 
few inches as it would have done in a pony{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s saddle.  Instead
 of being wrapped in jodhpurs and knickers as it usually was, though, the bald, 
bare, sensitive skin of her wide-stretched fanny brushed hard against the nap of
 the lion{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s fur sending shivers of hot delight through her body
 on the heels of the shiver of stinging cold.  It was the most delightful experience
 of Lucy's life to date.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 rushing tingle died away, leaving her fanny feeling wet against the lion{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s fur.  Then she thought to open her eyes, and gasped.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 was in her parent{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s bedroom in their London home.  Once it 
had seemed huge but compared with her own bedchamber in Cair Paravel it was tiny
, hardly large enough for the big, dark wardrobes and dressing-table, her parents
' double-bed and the great lion now filling it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
was night, for the thick drapes were drawn and the reading lights on the little 
tables to each side of the bed were glowing warmly.  On all fours on the bed was
 a naked woman with, kneeling upright between her feet, a naked man who was banging
 the front of his thighs against the woman's bottom.  A moment later Lucy recognised
 the man as her father and squeaked with dismay.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Don
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t be alarmed, Lucy," the great lion breathed.  {\lang5129\u8220
\'93}They cannot see us, not hear us.  In truth, we are not really here."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Certainly
 Lucy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s father had taken no notice of the appearance of a huge
 lion in his bedroom, bearing his younger daughter naked on his back.  He was holding
 the woman by the hips and hissing with exertion as he slapped his thighs against
 her bottom.  There was something not quite right about him, though.  It was her
 father, but not the father she remembered.  Then she had it.  He looked younger
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "That
's right, Lucy," Aslan purred.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}This is the night your life
 really began.  Not on your birthday, but the night you were planted in your mother
's womb." He grumbled with a laugh.  "It is something few people witness.  Their
 own conception."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 gulped.  She could recognise her mother now, too.  Her mother as a young woman 
bracing herself on her elbows against the man's driving thrusts, her breasts hanging
 down between her arms and jiggling as each thump against her bottom shook her body
, gasping in time with them.  "Oh," Lucy gasped.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 father rammed himself against her mother's bottom particularly hard and then stopped
, panting.  "Your turn, Alice,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he gasped.  Then he almost collapsed
 down onto the bed, twisting so that he lay on his back.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 From
 between his legs where the little puffy mound with the crack lay between Lucy's
 legs, a short stiff pole with a purple head stuck upright, glistening and pulsing
.  Around its base was a thick tangle of short black hair and beneath it was a strange
 saggy bag of skin with something round like an egg in it.  At the sight of her 
father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s penis Lucy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s heart gave an uncomfortable
 bump.  Boys had that and girls didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t.  She felt cheated, as
 though she was missing something.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 mother hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t moved and Lucy could see between her legs that
 where Lucy had a crack her mother had a deep groove full of folds and fingers of
 red, glistening flesh within which a hole disappeared into her body.  Then the 
woman stirred.  As though weary she pulled herself upright, curled around and then
 settled with her head on the man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s stomach like a pillow, her
 back to his head and his proud prick rearing just in front of her face.  Then she
 lifted a hand to it and wrapped her fingers around it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 father couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t but Lucy could see the look on her mother{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s face and knew that she, too, was feeling the awe of the thing just 
as her daughter was, and shared Lucy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s envy of a man at having
 such a thing where they didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t.  She, though, had it in her
 hand and Lucy understood even if she didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t share the different
 power that gave her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Like
 a woman with something incredibly precious and beautiful in her hand Lucy{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s mother caressed her father{\lang5129\u8216\'91}s prick and, in a way
 Lucy dimly understood, was its master as small, light, frail girl can be master
 a huge, powerful stallion and bend him to her wishes.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Suddenly
 Lucy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s mother surprised her daughter by moving.  Smoothly she
 raised her head and took the man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s penis in her mouth.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 To 
Lucy it was utterly unexpected and she watched unbreathing and frozen into place
 on the lion{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s back.  It was another, greater act of domination
, she realised.  Her father gave a low groan and Lucy saw that he was helplessly
 lost in whatever sensations the woman was giving him with her mouth around that
 rod.  In a way, she realised, her mother was eating her father the way she had 
heard in school biology that female spiders will eat the male after mating.  The
 woman was not actually biting bits off the man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s prick but 
she was taking him into her body and consuming him just as much.  With a slow shuddering
 sigh Lucy eased out the breath she had been holding for what seemed like hours 
and watched her mother take possession of the man her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s prick.\tab\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 For
 several minutes her mother licked and kissed, chumbled and sucked her father{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s prick, very much in charge.  Then she moved again, rose, straddled 
his thighs like a girl mounting a horse and lowered herself onto it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 saw it slide and disappear into her mother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s body and saw her
 mother respond by stretching upwards in triumph as though reaching for the stars
.  She was, Lucy empathised, feeling a far stronger and more powerful version of
 the tingling Lucy herself was feeling between the legs, a vastly more intense sensation
 of what Lucy felt when she had jiggled the candle in her hole.  Her father groaned
 and writhed and her mother began lifting and lowering her body, sliding herself
 up and down the man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s prick, her breasts jiggling up and down
 to the motion, her nipples stiff and erect and, Lucy knew, tingling.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 father was helpless and her mother was in total charge, Lucy knew.  And she had
 never seen that before.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 father was always in command.  Stern and commanding he had ruled the household 
and children with an iron hand.  Certainly he had left the ordering of the maid 
and the running of the household to his wife but only, Lucy had thought, because
 he chose to.  She had never seen her mother anything but meek and obedient in her
 father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s presence, serving as it had seemed his will.  Yet 
here in their bedroom on the bed it was very much her who was in command, her who
 ruled, and Lucy knew this rule extended far beyond the bedroom.  Understood that
 by mastering the man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s prick and taking it into the hole between
 her legs she had total power over him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
," she breathed as that understanding coalesced into a sudden hot glow of power 
between her legs and a shimmering tingle in her little nipples on her flat chest
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 mother had been riding her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s pole for a while, arching
 her back with the pleasure of it and thrusting her full-breasts skyward.  Then 
she rolled off him and the man yelped with dismay at his prick left orphaned in 
the cold air of the bedroom.  Lucy's mother lay on her back, her legs spread wide
 and the soft hairy cushion of her fanny with its glistening lips and very visible
 hole into her body open to her daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s eyes.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Come
 on, Alfred," she ordered from between gritted teeth.  "Give me another baby.{\lang5129
\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 And
 her father, the stern man before whom other men appeared nervously to hear their
 fates: to learn if their loan applications been granted or refused, or if the bank
 going to save their business or ruin it, or whether they and their families going
 to be thrown out of their houses for unpaid mortgages: this powerful man stirred
 himself to obey, crawled like a slave between the woman{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s legs
, allowed her to take his prick in her hand and guide it as she would, which was
 into the hole between her legs, and began humping up and down on her body like 
a washerwoman scrubbing a front-step.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 At 
ease beneath him Lucy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s mother eased her body into a more comfortable
 position and then lay relaxed as the man worked at and, Lucy could see, in her.  
Between her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s legs Lucy could see the man's bag of balls
 flopping back and forth as the pole above it slid greasily in and out of the hole
 into her mother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s body.  Suddenly, panting hard like a man 
at the end of a long race, her father crushed his thighs between her mother{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s legs and Lacy saw his bottom trembling and clenching.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "This
 is the moment, child,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Aslan breathed.  "Up to this moment 
they could have stopped, or your father could have spilled his seed into your mother
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hand, or her mouth, or her anus, or even onto the bed.  Or
 caught it in a plastic bag, and you would not have been.  Now, from this moment
, you became part of life and outside the man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s control to end
.  Although your mother, of course, still had that power.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Not
 quite understanding, Lucy still recognised the moment of her creation.  Her father
 hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t.  He had collapsed panting on her mother{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s body and had no thoughts but for the sensations his own body, she knew although
 she knew not how she knew.  Her mother, though, was reaching out past the man towards
 the ceiling her face shining in triumph because of the pleasures in her body, and
 her victory over the man, and because she could feel in some way the spark of new
 life in her body.  Lucy understood all this in a way she could not have put into
 words as she saw the smile of satisfaction on her mother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s 
face.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Gosh
," she breathed, tingling all over.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Hold
 on again, child," the great lion breathed and almost before Lucy could grab two
 handfuls of his mane had launched himself at the bedroom wall of the London house
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Instinctively
 Lucy shut her eyes.  The icy cold breathed on her again and then the lion landed
 lightly on the floor of her bedchamber in Cair Paravel.  Still quivering with the
 echoes of what she had experienced Lucy clung to his mane, her fanny pressed to
 his fur in what felt like a hot, wet puddle as though she had weed on the great
 cat.  She wondered if he felt it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Do
 you know what your parents were doing?" Aslan asked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Ah
," Lucy both did and didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t.  They were doing IT, but she still
 wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t entirely sure what IT was.  As she hesitated the lion
 gave a grumble which might have been laughter.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28  "It
 is called having sexual intercourse," he said.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Copulating
.  Mating.  Bonking. Coupling. Fucking.  Shagging.  Screwing.  Making the Beast 
with Two Backs.  It has many names.  Between friends it is fucking.  It is a word
 with an honourable ancestry. It is the way babies are made.{\lang5129\u8221\'94
}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Some
 of the words she had heard.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Were they really doing it to 
make me?{\lang5129\u8221\'94} She asked breathlessly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "No
." There was still a rumble of amusement in the lion{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s voice
.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}It is how babies are made but that it not the reason it 
is done, most of the time.  Your mother, though, wanted another and your father 
enjoyed the trying."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 butterflies in the stomach Lucy reluctantly slid from Aslan{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s back and perched on the edge of her bed watching the great golden lion pacing
 back and forth along the broad expanse of carpet in front of her.  She squeezed
 her legs together in the hope that he wouldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t see the wet 
patch glistening on the skin between them.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Lucy
," Aslan said, his voice suddenly serious.  "The making of a baby is the most important
 thing in all Creation.  Indeed, it is what Creation is about.  So Creation has 
made the act of making a baby the most wonderful experience you can have.  Creation
 has made it so wonderful that everything from the meanest mouse to the Sons of 
Adam and Daughters of Eve want to have that experience as often as they can.  The
 result is that many babies are made, but the reason everything from mice to Daughters
 of Eve fuck is because it feels so wonderful to fuck and be fucked.  That is why
 Creation fucks."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Oh," said Lucy numbly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Daughter of Eve," Aslan growled.  }\u8220\'93{\lang2057 You are female
.  I am male.  Look beneath me.}\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Unexpectedly
 the great lion sprang lightly onto Lucy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s bed and stood above
 her.  She squealed with sudden fright, then recovered and looked timidly beneath
 him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "The
 bag hanging between my back legs contains my testicles, more usually called 'balls
{\lang5129\u8217\'92},{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  The lion said.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}Feel them, Lucy."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Swallowing
 nervously Lucy reached out and put a tentative hand on the bag the lion referred
 to.  Nothing like her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s and covered with short fur like
 felt it was easily the size of her mother's biggest shopping bag, containing two
 slightly oval objects the size and feel of the great balls of wool her mother used
 to knit their pullovers from.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "All
 males, including Sons of Adam, have such bags and balls.  Though not as large, 
of course.  In the balls the seed is made which is placed in the womb of the female
, such as you are, Lucy, and where if the time and circumstances are right it germinates
 and grows into a baby."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
," Lucy said for a third time.  She was trying to picture a little man inside her
, walking up and down inside her womb scattering seed to either side as the farmers
 did their ploughed fields in the autumn.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Stroke my balls and watch, Lucy," the lion commanded.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Puzzled
 and gently, Lucy fondled the lion's great balls.  She could feel them moving and
 heaving slightly on their own in an odd way in their bag and she wondered what 
it must feel like to be a boy and have a bag like this hanging between your legs
.  It also gave her a thrill to think that although she was a mere girl she was 
touching and stroking such a proud male thing.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Just
 in front of where the pouch hung from the lion's body a pucker of skin stirred 
and then, to Lucy's amazement, something like a long finger covered in pink, shining
 skin grew out of the lion{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s body.  It stretched out, as long
 as her forearm and as thick as her wrist, and then seemed to stiffen and quiver
.  At its tip it narrowed to a finger of slightly hooked red, glistening flesh at
 the base of which was a little slit like a mouth.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "That
 is my penis," the lion growled.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Also called a cock, prick
, willy or John Thomas.  You have seen your father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s, as few
 girls have, and all males have one where you have a vagina.  It is what makes them
 male.  Mine is a lion's, of course.  The family felidae.  A Son of Adam{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s is smaller, naturally, and as you have seen looks a little different
.  The family homo.  But the function is the same.  To carry the male seed into 
the female{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s womb.  Usually it is soft and floppy, useful only
 for peeing.  But when it is required for its sexual function it grows larger and
 stiff so that it can penetrate deep inside the female though her cunt and introduce
 the seed directly into the womb.  What you saw earlier, Lucy, was your father with
 his prick in your mother's cunt, squirting his seed into her womb.  That act of
 squirting, and being squirted into, is the most wonderful thing of all Creation
.  Take my penis in your hands, Lucy.  Feel for yourself the power of the male.{
\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 her heart banging rather painfully against her ribs Lucy gingerly put her hands
 to Aslan's penis.  It was so thick she could barely get both hands around it and
 it felt velvety and slick to her touch.  It throbbed and quivered with life in 
her hands as her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s had in her mother's.  Surely, she 
thought, having a thing like this would be magnificent and she felt a sudden powerful
 envy for every male, who had one between his legs.  Glancing down at the empty 
space between her legs, with only its little pouting slit and insignificant little
 finger of floppy skin, she felt suddenly cheated and insignificant.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 At 
her touch Aslan purred.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Lucy
, Queen of Narnia,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he murmured in his throat.  "A girl who 
has not had a prick in her cunt is a virgin.  You are a virgin.  A virgin queen. 
The first prick to enter your cunt will take that virginity from you.  You will 
make a gift of your virginity to it.  It is a precious gift a girl, even a queen
, can make only once in her life.  Lucy, will you make gift of your virginity to
 me?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 As 
she could not believe Aslan had meant what she thought he had meant Lucy sat dumb
, her hands still stroking the enormous feline penis and drinking in its power as
 her mother had stroked her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "You
 mean......  You..... and me?" She gasped eventually into the great lion{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s silence.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}In me?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
mean you and me,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he replied, purring.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}In you."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "When
?{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Lucy swallowed.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}I mean, when will I
 be grown up enough?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 I mean tonight.  Now," the lion rumbled.  }\u8220\'93{\lang2057 You
 are grown up enough."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "But
 I'm still only eleven," Lucy wailed faintly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "You
 are big enough for a candle," Aslan pointed out.  "And grown-up enough to want 
to feel it in you.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "But
 you{\lang5129\u8217\'92}re huge," Lucy whispered.  "And you're a lion.  I'm just
 a little girl."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Aslan
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s penis in her hands had grown, throbbing, to be as thick as
 her upper arm, far thicker than anything she had previously tried to push into 
her hole and some of them had hurt before she had stopped.  The thought of Aslan
 trying to push the great thing she had in her hands into the little hole between
 her legs terrified her.  It would surely split her in half.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Lucy
, oh Lucy.{\lang5129\u8221\'94} There was a grumble of laughter in the lion's throaty
 voice.  "You surely cannot think I would hurt you?  No.  I am Aslan.  I will be
 as big as I need to be to give you ecstasy.  And yes, I am a lion.  My seed will
 go to waste in you for only the seed of a Son of Adam can be fertile in you.  So
 when you desire to have a baby only a Son of Adam can give you one.  But when you
 desire the pleasures of sex any prick will do it, though some better than others
.   The prick of boy, horse, dog or lion in your cunt will all be the same to you
 when the blood is hot and crying out for satisfaction, and any of them better than
 a candle or your own finger.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
," said Lucy, dumbfounded. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "So
, Lucy," grumbled the lion.  "Lie back and spread your legs wide, and in exchange
 for the gift of your virginity I will give you the gift of ecstasy, and Aslan{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s sperm."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 butterflies the size of eagles fluttering in her tummy Lucy obeyed for she could
 no more think of disobeying Aslan than she could her father.  Arranging herself
 with her buttocks on the edge of the bed she opened her legs as far as she could
.  In an explosion of uncoiled power the lion leapt right over the bed to land lightly
 on the floor.  With a purr like a roll of distant thunder he padded up to her and
 buried his huge head between Lucy's legs.  Terrified of what it was going to be
 like to have that great pole of rigid flesh force its way into her tiny hole, the
 eleven-year-old queen closed her eyes and whimpered to herself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 A gust
 of hot breath caressed her bottom, thighs and her crack between them, followed 
a moment later by the cold touch of the lion{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s great nose as
 he pressed it to her cunt and took a great draught of a sniff.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Ah
, the sex of a Daughter of Eve," Lucy heard the lion murmur to itself.  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Ripe and sweet.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  Then she gave a small yelp as Aslan
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s great tongue, the wet, rough, bristled tongue of a cat, laved
 the inside of her thighs and lapped deeply up her crack from the hole in her bottom
 where her shit came out to the very shallow part of the top.  Yet it set her tingling
, too.  Little sparkles of almost unbearable pleasure burst out from between her
 legs and ran up her spine to the top of her head or down her legs to her toes.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
," she gasped, unable to stop herself squeezing Aslan's great nose between her knees
.  The lion did not seem to mind.  His purring increased in strength until it sounded
 like an iron-shod wagon rolling down a cobbled street and Lucy could feel it reverberating
 through her whole body.  Aslan licked her again, but this time his great rough 
tongue paused in her cleft at the entrance to her hole and its tip probed an inch
 inside her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Eeek
." With a squeak that was half gurgle Lucy grabbed two handfuls of the sheets beneath
 her as a warm tidal-wave of delight rushed through her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 My child, prepare to be completed,}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  Aslan warned
, and then reared above her.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Great
 paws the size of dinner-plates thudded onto the bed above and to either side of
 Lucy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s head and the underside of the lion{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s great golden mane brushed her face.  His smooth stomach pressed against hers 
and his back legs forced her thighs even wider apart.  The tip of something pressed
 against her crack and Lucy, her hands buried in the thick, tawny fur of the lion
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s side, took a deep breath and gritted her teeth.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 thing, presumably the tip of Aslan's penis, explored her crack gently and located
 her hole.  Delicately it felt its way inside and probed deeper.  As it worked its
 way inside her Lucy could feel the entrance to her hole being stretched ever wider
 until it was on the edge of pain but it seemed to her that there were several inches
 of the lion's penis inside her which were nothing like the size it had been when
 she had held it in her hands.   A wave of relief swept through her as she realised
 Aslan had been as good as his word and had somehow adjusted the thickness of his
 penis to the size of her hole.  Then the lion jagged its hindquarters sharply at
 her and fierce pain ripped through her thighs.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 heard herself cry out and felt her hands pull cruelly at the lion{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s coat above her even as, on the heels of the burst of pain, she was aware 
that the thing filling the entrance to her hole was sliding forward into her, far
 thicker than before and filling her.  It reached deep into her, waking cascades
 of delight from the depths of her hole that swept over and buried the echoes of
 the pain.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8216
\'91{\lang2057 Oh Aslan," she gasped, tilting her hips upwards on the edge of the
 bed and spreading her legs far more than she would have believed possible to enable
 to lion to run even deeper into her.  The thing inside her, Aslan's penis, was 
pressing against the underneath of her tummy and felt impossibly huge in her crack
.  And it was growing bigger inside her.  Not at the entrance to her hole where 
she felt as tight as she would go and where she was still hurting, but inside her
 where she was soft and felt she could swell up like a balloon.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 lion began moving the thing inside her, sliding it up and down her passage and 
each time sending waves of delight sweeping through her.  "Oh, oh," she was gasping
, her whole body jerking several inches on the bed as the lion's penis drove back
 and forwards inside her.  She was filling with a great, wonderful itch that she
 wanted to scratch but which just grew itchier and itchier and the need to scratch
 it getting stronger and stronger until it was unbearable and she wanted more and
 more.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Deep
, deep inside her Aslan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s penis touched the heart of the itch
 and a huge, unbelievably sweet relief cascaded through her body as though the itch
 had exploded with one enormous scratch.  At the same moment she felt the big cat
's prick inside her pulse as it began pumping something hot and wet into her.  She
 could feel it filling her, forcing her insides even fuller and tighter and squeezing
 down past Aslan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s prick out of her hole to run down her bottom
.  It was as though the lion was peeing inside her and in fact that was what she
 thought it was, but she was so shattered and stunned by the explosion she had felt
 when her itch had been scratched at last that she didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t care
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 lay quivering on the bed just as she had seen her mother do underneath her father
 only a few minutes before.  Her legs were drooping weakly off the bed, still forced
 wide open by the body of the lion between them.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Forgive
 me, Lucy," Aslan rumbled {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Every woman feels pain the first 
time.  It is the cost of her virginity.  I hope you think it was worth it."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
 yes," Lucy gasped.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}That was wonderful, Aslan."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m glad."  The lion moved, lifting himself 
back and off the bed and his prick slid messily out of her.  "You have my seed in
 you and over you, I'm afraid.  Take a look."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Aslan
 hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t peed inside her, Lucy realised.  It had been his seed
 squirting into her womb.  She could still feel a hot pool of it inside her tummy
.  Weakly she raised a hand and wiped it against her crack.  It came away smeared
 with a sticky white cream.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "That
 is my seed,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} the lion said.  Squeezing his great furred nosed
 between her thighs he began licking it off her bottom and crack, sending little
 echoes of the great explosion through her again.  "My semen.  Some call it spunk
 or cum.  It is the very essence of life.  Thus it is precious, yet males can produce
 it in copious amounts and spend it freely for the mere pleasure of it.  Just as
 you can receive inside you the seed of anything male in copious amounts for no 
other reason than the pleasure of it.  Taste it.  It will not harm you."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Dubiously
 Lucy lifted her sticky hand to her face and examined the slimy residue.  It looked
 unappetising, yet it did not smell unpleasant and, when she licked at a drop, it
 was not an unpleasant taste.  It tasted strong and potent.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "So
, Queen Lucy of Narnia," Aslan said in a serious, gravely tone.  {\lang5129\u8220
\'93}Now you have been fucked as few girls have been fucked.  I have opened the 
door to sex for you and hope you will explore it to the full, for many more delights
 await you.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  He carefully and slowly licked her crack.  "And
 I hope that perhaps you will allow me to fuck you again one day."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
 yes, Aslan," Lucy assured him eagerly, struggling to sit up without getting too
 much of a mess on the bed from the great gobs of lion sperm sliming out of her 
crack to mingle with the blood still oozing from the split in her sore virginity
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Excellent
,"  the lion growled and, giving her a final lick that went from her crotch to her
 forehead and left her smeared with cat-spit, feline semen and her own blood, he
 turned and padded out of the room and into her dressing room.  With a great, contented
 sigh Queen Lucy flopped back onto her bed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Out
 of sight of the dazed, exhausted, deflowered eleven-year-old girl a panel in the
 adjoining room popped open.  The lion crossed to it and slipped into the passage
 behind.  The secret panel closed again.  Watching the lion warily the White Witch
 shooed it ahead of her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Back
 through the maze of passages and down steep winding stair-cases it led her, pacing
 wearily with its head low.  Its golden glow had died and the way was lit by a small
 white flare burning at the tip of an ivory wand in the Witch's hand.  Down past
 the inhabited parts of the castle to the level of the storerooms and down again
 to the dungeons few knew about.  Past empty cells where rusty chains hung in air
 that had not moved in centuries and bones lay that had once belonged to Narnians
 now long forgotten, and down again through passages cut in bare rock long before
 the castle had risen into the air above them. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 In 
the little cell far from the sunlight the lion turned and waited for the woman at
 its heels.  Cautiously the White Witch in her unsoiled gown of satin snow stopped
 in the doorway and watched him, the wand still burning in her hand.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Well
?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  she asked icily.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 lion{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s golden eyes flared fury at her.  The wand flicked in
 the Witch{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hand and a lash of magnesium lightning slashed 
from it to curl through the air and cut the lion{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s flank.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Well?" she snarled again.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 lion snarled warningly.  Then, as the Witch raised the wand again, the swirling
 egg of light formed around the animal.  It pulsed and coruscated, then drew itself
 upright, coalesced into a column of ivory and dissipated like mist.  The naked 
old man left standing in its place swayed and then staggered over the table to clutch
 it gratefully.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Sa
.  A little trick like that is nearly beyond your powers now, eh father?{\lang5129
\u8221\'94} the woman said sarcastically.  The old man drew himself up and glared
 at her.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "It
 always has been beyond yours, daughter," he retorted.  The Witch bared her teeth
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Back
 to your place,"  she hissed, flicking the wand.  The lash of light cracked beside
 the old man's thin buttocks.  Slowly he picked his stained robe off the table, 
donned it and crossed to the wall where the chains hung.  Warily the woman approached
 him and at extreme arm's length locked the first manacle around the wrist he offered
 her.  Skirting him she crossed to his other side and manacled the other wrist.  
Then she stepped back and relaxed slightly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-22{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
"Am I not good to you, father?" She asked, honey-toned.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Was
 she as sweet as I was at eleven?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-22{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
The old man smiled knowingly at her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-22{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
"Sweeter, for being a virgin," he said, considering.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}But you
 were sweeter at nine, for being my daughter, and sweeter than honey at six, for
 being so small.  And at three...  Ah, you were divine.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-22{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
A tiny corner of the Witch{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s lips twitched just once in a stony
 face.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-22{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
"At three, as I recall father, it hurt," she commented icily.  The old man gave 
a dismissive shrug.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-22{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
"Oh, I know it hurt you.  For me.....?" he smiled.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Pure ecstasy
.  I should have given you sisters, just to have known them at three as well.  And
 you should have born them for me."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-22{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
The Witch's lips twisted into a snarl and then eased into a thoughtful purse.  Dismissively
 she spread open the old man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s robes and bent to his penis which
 stirred sluggishly.  She sniffed it and then licked its bulging head.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-22{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
"Ah,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} she breathed appreciatively.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Scented
 with the sex of a Daughter of Eve.  What rose has a finer fragrance than the one
 she bears between her legs?  What fig a sweeter taste than her cunt when it's ripe
?  Eh, father?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-22{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
Giving him no time to answer she took his penis fully in her mouth and sucked it
.  The old man swelled in response and he groaned his delight.  Holding the blood
-swollen helmet in her lips the Witch swivelled her head around it and then nipped
 its side with little sharp teeth, drawing blood.  The old man jerked back with 
a pained yell of surprise.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Did
 that hurt, father?" The woman asked mildly.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Oh well.  It 
only hurt you.  For me it was pure ecstasy."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Turning
 her back on the cursing old man, she swept from the cell.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f0\lang2057\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 6\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 King
 Edmund the Least, as he had once overheard himself being called by two giggling
 talking-rabbit pages, was as happy in Narnia as he had been in England, which wasn
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t very saying very much.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 At 
least he had his own bedroom rather than having to share one with his big goody-
goody of a brother Peter.  Indeed he had the equivalent of a whole house to himself
, tucked away in a corner of the great castle of Cair Paravel.  He also had a lot
 of servants to run around after him and his own personal Centaur bodyguard, Tarttak
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Immediately
 after their Coronations in the Great Hall of Cair Paravel the elderly Centaur Cambrick
, who was some sort of leader among the herd (if that was the right word for a collection
 of Centaurs), had presented each of the Royal children with a solemn, serious Centaur
 who had taken an oath for themselves and their kin that they would let no harm 
befall their particular Royal charge if their own lives could prevent it.  At the
 time and with the scattered remnants of the White Witch's army of hob-goblins, 
were-wolves, bad dwarves, spectres and all still on the loose, a Centaur was a good
 thing to have at one's back.  Each one came armed with a long bow - a very long
 bow, in Edmund{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s opinion as each bow was longer than he was
 tall and could kill accurately at a very long distance - a short bow for use in
 enclosed places like corridors and Royal Apartments where the long bow would be
 forever knocking ornaments off the mantelpiece, a two-handed sword six-feet long
 and a so-called short sword which was still longer than the ones Peter and Edmund
 wore, which like the short bow was for use where mantelpieces and ceilings tended
 to hamper the use of the long one.  They also carried knives and had four steel
-edged hooves with a kick like a dozen mules for use in really close-quarter fighting
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-81{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
They were the killing heart of High King Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Narnian army
 and had been very useful in the first few months of the children{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s reign hunting down the remnants of the White Witch{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s 
legions.  Since then, though, and particularly within the precincts of Cair Paravel
 where the Witch{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s minions had for some reason never ventured
, having half-ton creatures nine feet high and three yards long forever treading
 on your heels, noisily skating about with steel-shod hooves on the castle's ice
-smooth stone flags and knocking the ornaments off the mantelpiece with their tails
, became more than a little annoying.  Particularly as they insisted on standing
 at your shoulder even when you were asleep or using the privy.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-81{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
Not surprisingly Susan in particular had drawn the line at that and by Royal Decree
 the Centaurs were required to limit their duties to guarding the door to the Royal
 Apartments whenever their royal tenant was inside.  As soon as Edmund stepped outside
 his, however, Tarttak would fall in behind him and follow him like a shadow, albeit
 a rather noisy shadow with the clatter of his steel shoes and the creaking, jingling
 and rattling of his weaponry, belts and scabbards.  This severely limited Edmund
\u8217\'92s opportunities to get up to mischief.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri-81{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
Not that he regarded it as mischief.  He just had a compulsive need to know where
 everything was, where everywhere went, what everyone did, where, why and how they
 did it and who they were.  If he happened to take a dislike to them, which he quite
 often did, he also enjoyed making their lives more exciting, challenging and interesting
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
had also to be very careful and cunning about what he did.  When the children had
 first arrived in Narnia he had not only been caught out lying, he had taken the
 White Witch's side.  Even in retrospect it still seemed a reasonable decision.  
She had been, after all, the de facto ruler in Narnia while Peter, Susan and Lucy
 had sided with a rebellion against her having heard only one side of the story 
and seemingly on the basis that talking beavers automatically had to be on the side
 of good.  Switching sides at the right moment had earned him some credit points
, but Edmund was fully aware that no-one really trusted him and had been working
 quite hard to allay suspicions by meekly fulfilling all the duties required of 
him as Narnia{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s youngest and least sovereign and generally keeping
 his nose clean.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Then
 Peter had gone away to the Dryad{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Ceremony of Renewal and 
come back in a foul mood, being perfectly beastly to everyone, and Edmund had met
 the fairy Peaseblossom.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 had come to cut his hair in place of the fairy who usually did it, who had apparently
 had an accident.  Edmund liked the fairies, in part because although they did anything
 they had to do very well they never seemed to be able to take anything seriously
 for very long, but mostly because they were the nearest things to girls in all 
Narnia apart from his sisters, and he was beginning to find girls very interesting
 indeed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
 seemed typical of the species, being four-feet high, giggled a lot, looked about
 six-years-old and had clever, assured hands. She was properly deferential, but 
with a kind of suppressed hilarity which suggested to Edmund that she didn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t really take him very seriously and he liked that, particularly as he
 could imagine his brother and sister not being aware of it and preening themselves
 while the fairy bowed and scraped to them like all the other servants while laughing
 up her sleeve at them.  Not that her costume had sleeves, of course.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Responding
 to this Edmund soon had a relationship with Peaseblossom which was more like brother
 and little sister than king and subject.  Having been the youngest all his life
 it was a delight to Edmund to have someone younger to play with, choosing to forget
 that Narnia{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s fairy population were considerably older than
 they looked and that they only looked that way because that was how people expected
 them to look.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
was Peaseblossom who solved his mobility problems, by introducing him to Cair Paravel
's network of secret passages built into the thick stone walls.  Using it they could
 easily escape Tarttak's patient vigil and in an oversize pair of wool-stuffed boots
, stained and baggy trousers, a heavy woollen cape, bushy false beard and with a
 battered, pointy red hat pulled down almost to his nose Edmund was still small 
enough to pass for a rather tall, somewhat scrawny dwarf.  In this guise at Peaseblossom
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s heels he visited the parts of Cair Paravel usually unknown
 to its rulers as well as the certain streets of the Lower Town where they never
 went at all.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Shortly
 after High King Peter and High Queen Susan returned from their holiday at the seaside
 and Edmund's short spell as acting High King had ended, Peaseblossom appeared before
 him in his apartments where he sat playing solitaire and waiting for something 
a King could do.  She had not been formally announced, so he knew she had popped
 out of one of the secret passages.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "How
 fares my King this beautiful day?" She piped, bowing so low she made a mockery 
of it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Bored, Peebee," he groaned.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy straightened and regarded him coyly, eyes flashing mischief.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Then Peaseblossom shall make it her duty to unbore him,}\u8221\'94
{\lang2057  she giggled.  }\u8220\'93{\lang2057 Would my king like to survey his
 realm from the top of the White Tower, perhaps?}\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Cair
 Paravel had a large number of towers and they were all white as that was the colour
 of the stone it had been built out of.  It had only one White Tower, though.  The
 tallest tower, rising from the centre of the keep, overtopped all the others by
 a hundred feet.  That it could be climbed was indicated by the fact that little
 windows pierced its sides in a spiral as though lighting an internal staircase 
but no access to the staircase had ever been found.  The windows were too narrow
 for any of Narnia's flying creatures to climb through and the door to a small chamber
 built on top of the tower into which the staircase disgorged was bolted securely
 on the inside.  Edmund knew that a frustrated Peter had discussed with dwarf masons
 the possibility of smashing through the tower's wall at its base to get to the 
staircase, but had been dissuaded when informed that this was likely to bring the
 whole thing down on their heads.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "You
've found a way?" he asked excitedly.  High King Peter taken a look at the top of
 the tower from the back of a Pegasus but the tower's parapet was too narrow for
 the flying horse to land on and the ability of the mythical creature to hover was
 about the same as a stone's, which made trying to dismount and remount the creature
 on a tiny ledge several hundred feet in the air a somewhat hazardous undertaking
.  To be the first to stand there would be a coup for Edmund.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 An}\u8217\'92{\lang2057  it please Your Majesty," the little fairy
 agreed modestly, her eyes shining triumphantly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Oh, you are a treasure," Edmund crowed, throwing down his cards. 
}\u8220\'93{\lang2057 Lead on, Peebee."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 led him into the secret passages and, to Edmund{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s surprise, 
down several levels.  Being a fairy she had a small wand with a star at the end.  
She had been quite happy to let Edmund examine it and he had found the wand to be
 a stick of ordinary-looking wood and the star some sort of rough, opaque shell.  
It hadn't done anything for him but for Peaseblossom the star could glow like a 
torch-bulb and it was able to light their way quite adequately through the blackness
 of the passages.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Having
 gone a substantial way deep into an area of the passages Edmund had not been in
 before the fairy paused before a larger doorway than usual in a small chamber where
 a number of passages came together.  A spiral staircase started just within the
 doorway.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Peaseblossom thinks," she whispered to Edmund, for something about
 the passages discouraged loud noises, "The tower was built long before the castle
, and the castle was built up around it.  So the doorway is right down here.  It
's a long climb to the top, if you can}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t fly," she sniggered
, and then rubbed it in by rising into the air and zipping away up the stairway 
like smoke up a chimney.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
was the sort of thing fairies in general and Peaseblossom in particular enjoyed 
doing and Edmund was not greatly alarmed.  Left in pitch darkness he groped to the
 doorway, located it by touch and started up the staircase.  It was built about 
a thick central column he could touch with one hand while the other hand could brush
 the stone of the outer wall.  The stairs were high but even and comfortably wide
 enough for his foot which made climbing easy.  He was three turns up when light
 dawned from above and Peaseblossom grinned down at him from the air a turn further
 up.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "There
 are eight hundred steps," she announced cheerfully.  As she was hovering almost
 directly above Edmund he could see a little way up her dress but what lay there
 was lost in shadow.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
had not been counting.  If each step was nine inches high that would make the tower
 600 feet high, he calculated.  If only eight inches, 530-something feet.  What 
he didn't know, of course, was how much of the tower was buried inside the castle
 and how much stuck out above it.  Well over half, he guessed.  That would make 
it high, and he didn't altogether like heights.  He climbed on, the fairy keeping
 pace and lighting his way from the air a turn above.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 His
 legs were weary by the time they reached the first window where natural light falling
 through the slit overwhelmed the glow from the fairy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s wand
.  The window, of course, would be a marker which together with the steps would 
provide a benchmark for measuring the height of the whole castle.  He made a note
 to do it another day, and climbed on.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Finally
 at the top he had to sit gasping on the top step for a while waiting for his legs
 to stop shaking before he could take much notice of what he{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}d arrived at.  He had climbed the 311 steps of the Monument to the Great Fire of
 London several times and everyone struggles at the top of that, but Cair Paravel
's White Tower had over twice as many steps.  Humming happily to herself and ostentatiously
 ignoring her King's exhaustion Peaseblossom flitted from side to side in the little
 room and peered out of its tiny windows.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 struggled to his feet.  The little room, which was barely big enough to swing a
 fairy in, was circular and contained only the head of the staircase.  Over his 
head was the underside of the little conical roof of red tiles which topped the 
entire tower, the cross-beams which supported it thick with cobwebs.  In the wall
 opposite the stairwell was a heavy timber door held shut by three large rusty bolts
.  Although he had to stand on tip-toe to reach the top one they slid back easily
 enough, to Edmund's relief, and the door squealed open on rusty hinges.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Beyond
 it a narrow walkway behind a low crenulated parapet encircled the tower.  Gingerly
 and with a strong, cool breeze ruffling his hair, Edmund stepped onto it and peeped
 over the edge.  The walkway had been cantilevered out from the tower wall and there
 was nothing beneath him for a long, long way down to the red roof-tiles of the 
keep below.  Peaseblossom flitted past his shoulder and hovered in thin air over
 the fall, looking down past her feet with interest.  Edmund\u8217\'92s stomach 
churned and he stepped back into the chamber, clammy with sweat.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy appeared before him and peered up into his face with concern on her pretty
 little face with its tiny upturned nose.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Is my King ill?}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  she asked worriedly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 took a deep breath.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}I can't fly," he explained.  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}And it's a long way down."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "True
," she agreed solemnly.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}It must be horrid, not being able 
to fly.  I think my King is very brave, coming up here when he can{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t fly."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 King felt a little better at that.  Not much, but a little.  Being within the round
 wall of the little room made him feel a little better, too, although he was sure
 he could feel the tower swaying a little if he tried.  So he stopped trying.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
had once told Peaseblossom that Peter Pan, who he assumed was a fairy of a sort, 
had been able to fly with Wendy, who was a human girl.  At that Peaseblossom had
 snorted and remarked that whoever had written that had obviously never met a fairy
 as it just wasn't possible.  Magic wasn't transferable, or up to supporting such
 extra weight and boy fairies couldn't fly anyway.  Maybe, she had added darkly, 
Peter Pan did something altogether different to Wendy which just made her feel like
 she was flying.  Edmund had let that pass.  He wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t sure 
he would have wanted Peaseblossom to take him flying even if she could.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "What
 shall we do?"  The little fairy asked excitedly, floating away from him a foot 
or two.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 looked around the empty room.  There didn't seem to be much they could do.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Into
 his silence the fairy gave a naughty little giggle.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}I dare
 my King to take all his clothes off, and appear before all Narnia in his birthday
 suit."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 They
 had played dares before, though mischievous rather than naughty ones.  Edmund had
 to admit, though, that standing on top of the tower he would be open to view by
 everyone in the castle, High Town, the Lower Town and a large chunk of Eastern 
Narnia.  Anyone who happened to be stretching their neck looking that way at the
 time, of course.  And with a telescope.  And there weren't any telescopes in Narnia
 at all, as far as Edmund knew, as no-one had yet discovered how to make proper 
translucent glass.  The idea of cocking a snook or, rather, cocking his cock, as
 he didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t think he had a snook whatever one is, at his oblivious
 subjects was irresistible.  Another idea was even more irresistible, however.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
dare you to take all yours off first," he challenged the fairy.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 eyes went wide with glee and a mischievous smirk leapt onto her little face.  {
\lang5129\u8220\'93}Dare, too," she giggled throatily.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 the speed of a mosquito, which seemed to involve instant acceleration, she zipped
 across the small width of the room and turned to face him hovering a foot above
 the floor.  Putting her hands to her throat she tugged at a loose end of a neat
 knot holding a short, artfully ragged cape of gossamer lace across her shoulders
 and back.  The cape could clearly do nothing to keep the rain off or cold winds
 out and so Edmund assumed it was purely decorative.  The knot dissolved under her
 fingers and the cape floated like a feather to the ground.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 I regret," she announced in her tinkling voice, }\u8220\'93{\lang2057
That I must ask my King to undo my buttons."  Then she turned around and floated
 backwards towards Edmund.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 was wearing her usual dress of unadorned leaf-green.  Sleeveless and round-necked
 it fell shapelessly to a deeply-scalloped hem just above her knees.  Between her
 wings at the back was a vertical row of big green buttons.  The wings were merely
 constructions of light bone and spiders-web lace worn because people expected to
 see wings on a fairy - part of the uniform, Peaseblossom had explained - which 
could actually be a hazard if a sudden gust or downdraft caught them while the fairy
 was flying magically.  More than one fairy had suffered the indignity of being 
unsnagged from a tree, disentangled from a thorn bush or plucked from a pond after
 her fake wings had unexpectedly taken over her flight path.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 With
 hands that were shaking slightly and a heart beating harder than it had after his
 climb up the tower Edmund undid the buttons from the top down.  As soon as the 
bottom one was clear of his fingers and the back of the dress had flopped open to
 reveal a small back with flawless white skin and prominent shoulder blades Peaseblossom
 zipped across the room again and turned to face Edmund.  With a wriggle of her 
shoulders the top of the dress slid down her arms and rumpled around her waist.  
With a wriggle of her hips it slipped down her legs, caught for a moment on her 
feet and then dropped a foot or so further to the stone flags.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 saw instantly that fairies don{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t wear panties.  Naked apart
 from her little green ankle-boots Peaseblossom hung in the air grinning broadly
 at him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Her
 narrow chest was perfectly smooth apart from the faintest furrowing of her ribs
 and her pale skin was flawless apart from two tiny pink discs either side of her
 heart.  She had a slim waist and long, spare thighs with even longer, elegantly
 curved legs.  Between them at the top where Edmund's eyes fastened was a little
 pouting V broken by the front of a deep groove which ran back out of sight between
 her legs.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Does my king wish me to take my boots off?}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  
she asked cheerfully.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Uhnnn
,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Edmund didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t really hear.  He had known
 girls were different from boys, but not how much.  That they had long hair, wore
 dresses and had a totally different attitude to mud and frogs he had long known
 but that there were actual physical differences between boys and girls had only
 become apparent after he had arrived in Narnia, with the fascinating changes he
 had noticed in his sister Susan as her breasts developed and she had grown sort
 of {\lang5129\u8216\'91}curvier{\lang5129\u8216\'91}.  Had he been back at their
 home in London he almost certainly would have worked hard and probably successfully
 to get a peek at her with no clothes on, either in the bedroom she had shared with
 Lucy or, better still, in the bathroom, and the chaos and confusion of evacuation
 to a strange new home in the countryside would probably have made it even easier
 for him to find a suitable peephole.  Such a peek would also have alerted him to
 the substantial difference between boys and girls between the legs as well, but
 denied such a peek by the security which surrounded his sisters in Narnia the sight
 of Peaseblossom's cockless genitals startled him into confusion.  How, he asked
 himself, did she pee?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Taking
 his incoherent grunt as confirmation that he did want her to take her shoes off
 the fairy casually raised one foot to the opposite knee and began to slip the bootee
 off, making a figure 4 with her legs.  The pose opened her thighs slightly and 
Edmund saw the crevice continue between them with a tiny wrinkled finger peeping
 out of it.  Did she wee from that?   How could she point it at anything? The fairy
 took the other bootee off, dropped it on top of her other clothes and straightened
 up.  Even floating a foot off the stone flags the top of her head was only level
 with Edmund's chin.  Naked apart from the circlet of ever-fresh daisies around 
her brows she tipped her head to one side and regarded him quizzically.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Done
 my dare," she announced boldly.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Dare my king do his?"\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 What?  Oh.  Yes." Edmund shook himself out of his stupor.  The naked
 fairy floated in the air in front of him as solidly as though she was standing 
on an invisible chair.  As he began unlacing his shirt he felt his cock tremble 
at the sight as though waking.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 This
 had only started happening since he had arrived in Narnia.  Sometimes, especially
 when he was thinking about his elder sister and those bumps on her chest, the muscles
 between his thighs would clench as though he was trying to stop himself from peeing
 when he needed to, only he wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t and his cock would grow a
 little longer and fatter and stiffer.  Only in the previous month or two had he
 discovered that when it was in that condition he could peel the tube of skin back
 from its funny head, and if he played with that he could set up the most delicious
 sensations in it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
pulled his shirt over his head and undid the belt holding his Narnian trousers up
.  Had the little fairy seen a Son of Adam with no clothes on before?  If she hadn
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t what would she make of that hose-like object sticking out
 of his body at the bottom, where she only had that tiny wrinkled thing.  Watching
 her face he dropped to his knees the trousers together with underpants Susan had
 had made for him and Peter.  The little fairy's eyes dropped to his cock and she
 giggled.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 My king likes looking at Peaseblossom with no clothes on, I see," 
she observed happily.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Well, I think you're very beautiful," he stammered hurriedly.\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy gave a whoop of delight and bowed low and extravagantly, until her head was
 lower than her little bottom.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}And I think my king is very
 handsome," she told him solemnly, peeping up at him.  Edmund knew he was blushing
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Now my handsome king must complete his dare and show himself in all
 his handsomeness to his people," she challenged him, straightening up.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 At 
the thought of going out onto that little walkway again his stomach clenched, which
 seemed to have the effect of making his cock grow a little bigger and stiffer.  
Dares, though, were for daring and so he stepped out of the door into the sunshine
 and the stiff, cool breeze.  It wasn't so bad if he looked far away, at the blue
 Narnian distance rather than down at the fall before him.  With his head up he 
stepped to the very edge of the parapet, the top of which wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}t quite as high as his cock.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 A pair
 of tiny hands settled on his shoulder-blades and pushed.  He toppled forward and
 felt the hard, sharp edge of the stonework dig into his thighs while his bare feet
 on the stone flags began to slip backwards.  A scream of pure terror crushed his
 heart as his imagination rushed away over the parapet into the void beyond but 
before it could even form in his throat the same little hands seized his shoulders
 firmly and pulled him back from the abyss with surprising strength.  As he threw
 himself back into the little room he heard in his ear a trill of fairy laughter
, then he collided with the blessed solidity of a wall and slid down it into a heap
, gasping.  His heart was pounding and  he broke out in a cold sweat.  If he hadn
't peed on himself it was only because he hadn't had time.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Peaseblossom
," he yelled furiously.  "You little shit.  I could kill you. That wasn't funny.  
That was the most stupid, thoughtless..... " He couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t think
 of anything suitably foul and fumed into silence, quivers of fright still wracking
 him.  Painfully slowly his heart stopped hammering, his muscles unfroze and his
 breathing steadied.  With a shuddering sigh he pulled himself together and shook
 off the worst of the terror.  Then he looked up.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 little fairy was hovering a yard away, looking down at him with her hands to her
 face and eyes wide with horror peering out between her fingers.  Meeting his gaze
 she reluctantly dropped her hands and her face dissolved into misery.  Slowly she
 floated backwards until she came up against the wall and then, crying soundlessly
, crumpled down it until she was sitting on the flagstones with her knees pressed
 to her chest, arms hugging them and face pressed to them, tears streaming down 
her cheeks.  Her thighs were slightly open and between them Edmund could clearly
 see her crevice in a kind of puffy pad with her little wrinkled cock peeping out
 of it and another tiny pair of wrinkles like miniature lips beneath it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Oh Peebee, I'm sorry."  He crawled over to her and put his arm around
 her tiny shoulders.  "You did give me the most awful fright.  But I know you didn
}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t mean it."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Under
 his arm she trembled and wept breathlessly. {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Peaseblossom is
 unfit to serve her king.  Peaseblossom will absent herself and go count frogspawn
 in a bog far from her king, where the mud stinks and the gnats will bite her," 
she sobbed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Somehow
 she was in his lap, wrapped in his arms with her head against his chest and her
 little bare bottom on his throbbing cock.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "You
 will not,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he said firmly, kissing the top of her head, stroking
 her hair and thinking how nice her soft round bottom felt against his cock.  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}I want you to stay with me and be my Peebee.  You're the only friend 
I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}ve got in Narnia."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
heard the sob in his own voice as he confessed what he previously hadn't even realised
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 little fairy in his arms sniffed and her sobbing subsided.  A small white tearstained
 face with red-rimmed eyes wide in wonder turned up to his.  He bent down to it 
and she met him half way for a gentle kiss.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Peaseblossom
 does not deserve this," she whispered in awe.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Peaseblossom deserves all I can give her," he assured her firmly.
\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 And Peaseblossom will do all she can for her king,}\u8221\'94{\lang2057
 the fairy replied brightly, cheering up rapidly.  Fairies were notorious for their
 mercurial changes of mood.  Edmund couldn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t prevent his cock
 throbbing against her little bottom and knew the slow smile that appeared on her
 little face was because of it.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri58{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
"Peaseblossom thinks she knows what will please her king,"she said in a mischievous
 gurgle.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}And if she{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s wrong, well, the
 frogspawn still needs counting.{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Before Edmund could reply 
she had slipped like a snake out of his arms, curled herself around his leg and 
taken his cock in her mouth.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri58{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
Whatever Edmund had been going to say died forgotten in his throat.  The feel of
 the fairy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s little lips closing around the bulging head of 
his cock and squeezing it between her tongue and the roof of her mouth paralysed
 every nerve of his body with delight.  She eased the pressure on it and rolled 
it around her tongue, then peered up at Edmund with the shaft of his cock disappearing
 into her mouth.  Anxious eyes asked the question she could not ask with her mouth
 stopped by his cock.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri58{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28
\u8220\'93{\lang2057 Oh Peebee,}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  Edmund groaned, "That's fantastic
, but...  I mean...  Do you want to do that?}\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri58{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
She nodded, sliding his cock back and forth in her mouth as a result.  Edmund wasn
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t going to argue.  With a sigh of utter satisfaction he set
 the back of his head against the wall behind him and closed his eyes.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri58{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28
The little fairy sucked, nibbled and blew his cock while her little hands stroked
 its shaft and ticked the balls in their little bag beneath it.  Heat gathered between
 his legs and he felt something like molten lava crawl a little way up inside his
 cock, which was bigger and stiffer than it had ever been.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282\ri58{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28
\u8220\'93{\lang2057 Peebee, I'm going to pee," he said warningly.  The little fairy
 turned her face up to him, her eyes smiled knowingly and she sucked harder.\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Peebee
," he said desperately, clenching the muscles in his prick to hold the wee in.  
The wee fought back as the fairy nibbled with little teeth at the bulb at the end
 of his cock.  Something popped most deliciously inside it and a squirt of boiling
 wee shot into the fairy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s mouth.  Another followed as Edmund
 moaned and quivered and the fairy sucked eagerly.  A vast wave of delight cascaded
 though Edmund and slowly seeped away leaving him feeling wonderfully content.  
The fairy's busy tongue wiped away the last dribble of wee from the end of his cock
, the sensation almost too much to bear.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Oh, Peebee," he groaned.  That she should let him wee in her mouth
 seemed unbelievable.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 She
 let his shrinking cock fall from her mouth, swallowed, licked her lips and grinned
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 My king is pleased?"\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Peebee, that was fantastic.  For me.  How could you do a thing like
 that?  I mean....  Well...  Won't it make you ill, or something?  My pee?"\par}
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy's smiled deepened to something unfathomable.  Gracefully she uncoiled from
 his leg and flowed almost like smoke back into his arms where she snuggled like
 a cat.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Has my king not known that before?"\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 What?  My cock in a girl's mouth?  Gracious, no."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "No
, my king.  Has my king not known orgasm before?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Orgwhat?}\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
 giggled in his arms, her face alight with delight.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}May Peaseblossom
 explain?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 I wish you would."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy grew serious.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}When my king first came to Narnia he 
was a mere boy.  Now he is becoming a true Son of Adam.  It is the role of a Son
 of Adam to place seed in a Daughter of Eve so that she bears a child.  The seeds
 of a child are made here,{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  She reached down and gently stroked
 the bag between his legs containing the two balls.  "And placed into the daughter
 of Eve through this.{\lang5129\u8221\'94} A tender hand caressed his cock.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Oh
.  You mean... that was seeds of a child...  I squirted into your mouth?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Yes, my king.  Not wee at all."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Then will a child...  Grow in you?"\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s face lit with gaiety.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}No, my king.  
You squirt your seed in a Daughter of Eve{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s mouth purely for
 pleasure.  If you desire a child you must squirt it here.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  
She took his hand by surprise and pressed it between her legs.  It was so unexpected
 that Edmund froze, extraordinarily aware of the shape of the soft mound split by
 the crack beneath his hand.  Holding his hand against her sex with one of her own
 she carefully sorted through his fingers with the other, separated out the middle
 one and pressed into the cleft.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Daughters
 of Eve have a vagina instead of a penis,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} she explained.  {
\lang5129\u8220\'93}My king{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s finger is at the entrance to my
 vagina.  If he wishes to press a little he will enter me."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Unbelieving
, Edmund pressed and felt his finger slip though a tight hole into warm, moist billows
 of soft flesh.  He worked it into the fairy until his palm was pressed against 
her cleft and he could go no further, although he had met no obstruction inside.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "And
 my cock, my... what do you call it?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Correctly
 it is your penis, my king, but being an item of great importance to both men and
 women it has many names, among them phallus, cock, prick, willy, John Doe, sex 
organ, male member.  The vagina, too, has many names.  To your sisters it is probably
 their fanny.  Cunt is a popular appellation, though considered uncouth by many.
{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
 the solemn teacher was a new persona Edmund found rather unsettling, particularly
 as he still had his finger up her vagina, fanny or cunt.  It was also rather unsettling
 to consider his sisters having the same.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "So
 to plant my seed in a girl my... penis... has to go in her...vagner?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Vagina, my king.  Yes.  When fully inserted in her vagina the penis
 can deliver the seed practically into her womb, where conception takes place and
 the baby grows.  At birth the baby exits the womb through the vagina and thus enters
 the world."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Gosh," Edmund remarked rather lamely.  For months he}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
d been wondering about it, and had now run full tilt into an encyclopaedia.  }\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 Er.... Can I..... I mean..... Can I put my penis in your vagina, 
Peaseblossom?"\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy was looking down at his hand between her thighs, holding it there with both
 her own hands as he gently explored the soft pillows of warm, moist flesh inside
 her vagina.  For her to be silent was unusual and Edmund was wondering how he could
 unsay what he{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d said when she replied softly, "If my king wishes
, of course he may.  Yet he should know that Peaseblossom cannot bear him a child
 for she is not a true Daughter of Eve.  And Peaseblossom would say," she added 
reluctantly, "That her vagina is meant for small pricks, like Peter Pan.  Her king
's much bigger prick would cause her pain, and so make her task of pleasuring him
 more difficult.  Peaseblossom's mouth, though, is ready and eager to pleasure her
 king at his command.  And she has another orifice she would be pleased to make 
available to him for his pleasure, should the mood take him."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 He 
could understand the part about her vagina.  The inside of it was soft and pliable
 but the entrance to it in her crevice was tight around the base of his finger, 
which was far smaller than his cock.  His penis, he corrected himself.  As he had
 never heard the word {\lang5129\u8216\'91}orifice{\lang5129\u8217\'92} before he
 had no idea what that part of her statement meant.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 If it would hurt you I won't do it,}\u8221\'94{\lang2057  he promised
, kissing the top of her head and ignoring the sudden and powerful temptation to
 use his kingly power on her and do it anyway, just because he could.  He felt the
 tiny creature relax a little in his lap.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 What was that other word?" he asked.  "Orgo something."\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Orgasm
, my king.  It is nature{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s way of rewarding the man for placing
 his seed in a Daughter of Eve, or at least for expressing it.  Creation is blind
 to what actually happens to it once it leaves the penis.  Daughters of Eve, too
, experience orgasm, to encourage them to be willing to receive the seed.  It is
 a wonderful experience."\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 wondered if the little fairy was speaking from experience or just quoting from 
the encyclopaedia again but suddenly shied away from asking.  He had an uncomfortable
 feeling that if he did he might uncover a different Peaseblossom to the one he 
was used to.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "I 
see.  Will this give you one?" He wiggled his finger inside her.  She giggled.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang2057 No, my king.  But it is not unpleasant.  If my king wishes to take
 the trouble Peaseblossom will teach him how to give her, and any Daughter of Eve
, an orgasm with the deft use of his finger, but she thinks now would not be the
 proper time.  My king should be back in his chamber lest he be missed.}\u8221\'94
{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 It 
was true that if Peter or Susan should visit him in his chambers, a rare but occasional
 event, his absence when Tarttak had not seen him leave would lead to difficult 
questions and the probably uncovering of the secret passages.  On previous occasions
 Peaseblossom had shown herself to have an uncanny knowledge of when it would be
 safe for him to leave his apartments and when he should return, so he didn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t ignore her hint.  Reluctantly he slipped his finger out of her vagina
, and they disentangled themselves.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "Can
, er, we come up here again?{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he asked shyly as he struggled
 back into his clothes and the little fairy hovered nearby waiting for him to do
 up her buttons.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 "If
 my king wishes," she agreed happily.  Edmund had no doubt she knew what he wanted
 to climb to the top of the tower with her for.   {\lang5129\u8220\'93}But does 
my king not think he would be more comfortable, and that there might be a lot more
 fun to be had, if Peaseblossom just visited him in his bed?"\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28 After
 a moment's thought, King Edmund did.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang2057\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f0\lang2057\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 7\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f0\lang2057\fs32\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 High
 King Peter of Narnia was restless.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
knew he had no business being restless.  In the month since his and Susan\u8217\'92
s return from the seaside she had, as promised, wanked him off once a week while
 the fairy Peaseblossom visited his bed unpredictably but reasonably often to take
 his prick in her mouth and play with it until he squirted his semen down her throat
.  As a result the powerful pressures and tensions of the Spring when he\u8217\'92
d had no option but to wank himself off by hand were not there, but he was still
 unsatisfied.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
wanted more from his elder sister, of course.  It would be so much more...... satisfying
...  if she were to kneel naked before him as she stroked and caressed the seed 
from his prick, so that he could feast his eyes on her swelling breasts, her smooth
 flanks and that bush of hair between her thighs as she ministered to him.  How 
much better if he could squirt his seed at her as it jetted from him?  How much 
more fun to watch the hot sticky cream splash onto her breasts rather than have 
to scramble to smother it in a rag and pretend it wasn\u8217\'92t really there.  
How incredible it would feel if his sister took him into her mouth as Peaseblossom
 did.....\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 No, 
that was out of the question.  There was no way on earth he could imagine his sister
 doing a thing like that.  It would not even occur to her that it could be done.  
As for her appearing naked before him, when she did come to wank him she was always
 dressed forbiddingly from the chin to her shoes.  At the back of his mind he suspected
 that if he were to ask she would take her clothes off, and maybe even allow him
 to touch her breasts and explore that groove between her legs for she had said 
she would do the kinds of things a girlfriend would do for him, but it was clear
 from the tension in her stance and the look of dismay she could not keep from her
 eyes as she handled his prick that she hated doing even that and so her brother
 nobly refrained from asking anything more of her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 problem was that he could not drive from his mind the memory of his seed exploding
 from his prick into the Queen of the Dryads\u8217\'92 cunt as he stood between 
her legs, and how much more satisfying that had been than anything his sister or
 Peaseblossom did for him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
had considered trying it with Peaseblossom.  As the little fairy lay curled at his
 side in his bed, her little head on his stomach and his prick in her mouth, she
 never seemed to mind him stoking her naked body, toying with the pimple-nipples
 on her flat chest and probing with a finger between her legs.  It was plain, though
, that she was far too small for him to fuck properly.  Not only because the top
 of her head hardly reached the level of his own nipples if she stood beside him
 but because he could barely get his finger into her tiny vagina, and his prick 
was much larger.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 No, 
the problem was that he wanted to do it properly to somebody, only there wasn\u8217
\'92t anybody to do it to.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
was Susan who insisted that an attempt be made to maintain the education of the 
twins, and while she did spend time with them trying to teach what had been her 
better subjects at school Peter had been told off by his elder sister to try to 
impart to them the subjects in which he had been better or more advanced.  These
 included Latin and Algebra, neither of which anyone found particularly enjoyable
.  Nevertheless at the appropriate time one wet, muggy afternoon his talking-badger
 valet tapped lightly on the door to his sitting room and announced in solemn tones
, \u8220\'93Her Majesty, Queen Lucy.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
\u8217\'92s little sister walked into his room and Peter almost gasped as if he 
had been kicked in the stomach by a Centaur.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was wearing a summer frock just as she might have done in England.  After nearly
 a year of heavy, elegant and beautiful but exceedingly modest medieval fashion 
it seemed almost indecent.  Short-sleeved and with a round cut neck it fell sheer
 to her waist and then blossomed over her hips into light flounces which fell only
 to her knees below which her legs were bare.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Goodness,\u8221\'94 Peter exclaimed.  His little sister did a delighted pirouette
 before him, sending the skirt spinning out and revealing quite a bit of upper leg
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Like it?\u8221\'94 she crowed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Well,\u8221\'94 said Peter, still slightly breathless.  \u8220\'93It takes some
 getting used to.  Where on earth...?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Peaseblossom made it,\u8221\'94 Lucy explained, smoothing down the still-swinging
 skirt.  \u8220\'93She asked me what dresses were like in England and I tried to
 describe them.  And she came up with this.  Good, isn\u8217\'92t it?\u8221\'94\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Certainly is,\u8221\'94 Peter agreed.  \u8220\'93Has Susan seen it?\u8221\'94
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 gave a mock grimace.  \u8220\'93Not yet.  Peaseblossom suggested I try it out on
 you first.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I think Susan\u8217\'92ll be quite jealous,\u8221\'94 Peter assured her.  \u8220
\'93It looks nice and cool.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93It is.  And it\u8217\'92s soooo nice to have my legs free again.\u8221\'94  
To illustrate the point she did a little leg-kicking dance which sent the skirt 
swirling and revealed flashes of smooth, soft white thigh beneath.\tab  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 little sister, Peter reflected, was a month or so short of twelve.  When they had
 arrived in Narnia she had just turned eleven and he had not noticed the changes
 the intervening period had wrought.   Then she had been short and a bit of a tub
, not fat exactly but definitely tubby;  her legs had been podgy, too, so that her
 socks refused to stay up, and her hair had been cut like a boy\u8217\'92s.  Now
 as she posed before him so that he could admire her new dress he realised that 
she was, or at any rate seemed, a foot taller and if she was still well-fleshed 
it would be unkind to call her tubby.  Her hair now flowed down past her shoulders
 and was held back from her face by a ribbon, her neck seemed somehow longer, from
 somewhere she had acquired a slight waist and her legs were distinctly shapely, 
if still perhaps a little short.  In addition, he noticed with a sudden bump of 
the heart, the smooth material of the dress across her front revealed two faint 
but distinct little mounds on her chest where older girls had breasts.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I\u8217\'92m sure Peaseblossom will make her one like this if she wants,\u8221
\'94 Lucy said cheerfully, crossing to her usual chair.  Peter\u8217\'92s heart 
bumped again as he saw in her movements and the way she unconsciously arranged her
 dress around her legs before sitting on it that she was very much a girl, that 
the same gulf had opened between him and his younger sister that existed between
 him and her elder.  \u8220\'93Where\u8217\'92s Edmund?\u8221\'94 she asked a little
 crossly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Her
 twin was usually late for these lessons but as there was no such thing as a clock
, let alone a wristwatch, in Narnia it was hard to chastise him for it.  A team 
of talking squirrels in one of the castle\u8217\'92s towers which held the biggest
 bell in Narnia were supposed to sound it hourly during the day, taking their time
 from a sand-glass, but as it was not a very big bell and it was easy to miss it
 if you weren\u8217\'92t listening for it, there had been no way of knowing exactly
 how long the glass actually took to empty and as in any case its period began each
 day at sunrise, the timing of which could be a bit conjectural on a cloudy day, 
time-keeping in Narnia could be somewhat hit-or-miss.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Not
 that Edmund tried very hard to be on time.  He made little secret that he regarded
 the lessons a waste of time.  In addition Peter had to concede privately to himself
 that Edmund was undoubtedly quicker and cleverer than his twin sister and picked
 up things much faster.  Initially he had enjoyed showing it off, teasing Lucy about
 her slowness and demeaning her, but with those same skills had quickly learned 
that Peter did not like such behaviour at all and so had taken to learning the lesson
 in half the time his twin did and then spending the rest of the period sitting 
in fidgeting, sullen silence.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93He\u8217\'92ll be along,\u8221\'94 Peter said, not overjoyed by the fact.  While
 regularly late as though making a point Edmund was not so bold as to miss the lesson
 completely.  \u8220\'93Tell me, Luce,\u8221\'94 he dropped his voice conspiratorially
.  \u8220\'93Are you happy here?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh yes,\u8221\'94 she exclaimed instantly.  A guilty shadow passed over her 
face.  \u8220\'93Of course I miss Mother and Father,\u8221\'94 she added loyally
.  \u8220\'93And I hope they\u8217\'92re all right.  But this,\u8221\'94 she looked
 around her at the room but presumably meant all of Narnia, \u8220\'93Is wonderful
.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 nodded his agreement.  \u8220\'93Has Susan,\u8221\'94 he asked carefully, \u8220
\'93Talked to you about growing up, and all that.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 regarded him solemnly and nodded seriously.  Peter would like to have known what
 Susan had told her little sister, particularly about boys and sex, but knew better
 than to ask.  Knowing Susan, though, he had little doubt that it would have been
 very strict when it came to having actual experience of the subject with boys.  
Especially with her brothers.  By getting Susan to masturbate him when she had expected
 and wanted him to refuse her offer to do so he was sure he had hugely damaged the
 trust and respect she had for him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I wonder when we\u8217\'92ll see Aslan again,\u8221\'94 he speculated to divert
 himself from the thought.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 At 
the name his little sister\u8217\'92s eyes went wide, she flushed scarlet and her
 knees tightened together as though her brother had made a lunge for her lap.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 This
 reaction surprised Peter, although it was undeniable that Lucy did have a special
 relationship with the great lion.  She had been the first to meet him, had spent
 more time in his company than the rest of them and it had been her faith in him
 when the rest of them had doubted that had saved them all from disaster.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93He\u8217\'92s not far away,\u8221\'94 she breathed with conviction.  \u8220\'93
And he\u8217\'92s always looking after us.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
, who hadn\u8217\'92t thought much about Aslan as the Lion hadn\u8217\'92t been 
seen since the Coronation, found the idea oddly disturbing.  Was Aslan watching 
when Susan wanked him off?  Did Aslan know what he wanted to do to his elder sister
?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I\u8217\'92m sure he\u8217\'92s keeping tabs on us,\u8221\'94 he said confidently
, hoping it was no more than that.  Still blushing furiously his little sister gave
 him a smile which had something in the eyes that hinted at a deep secret.  Puzzled
, he opened his mouth to probe her about it but at that moment the door opened with
 a tap and the talking-badger announced King Edmund.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Hello.  Am I late?\u8221\'94 the young King asked as though he did not know 
perfectly well that he was.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 had not enjoyed Latin very much in school in England, but had discovered that a
 surprising amount had stuck when he came to pass it on to his younger siblings.  
After getting them working on the declension of quis with chalk on the slates which
 had been made for them he relaxed in his chair and studied his little sister while
 trying not to make it too obvious.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Bent
 over her slate as she was the tiny mounds on her chest were invisible and her knees
 were demurely together but Peter was prick-tinglingly sure he had really seen those
 first hints of breasts and it was all too clear that she was very girlishly conscious
 of what he thought of as the mystery between her legs.  She was now head and shoulders
 taller than Peaseblossom and while Lucy might be hundreds of years younger her 
body was clearly moving on beyond the eternal child\u8217\'92s that was the little
 fairy\u8217\'92s.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Would
 his little sister\u8217\'92s vagina be bigger than Peaseblossom\u8217\'92s tiny
 one?  Would it be big enough for his prick to slip inside?  Was there a cat in 
hell\u8217\'92s chance he could find out, Peter wondered?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Quis, qua, quid, qui, quae, qua,\u8221\'94 he prompted them.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 two sisters were very different people, he knew well enough.  Susan had always 
been ladylike, proper, eschewing rough games and anywhere she might get grubby.  
Lucy had been more boyish, more willing to get into mischief, less intimidated by
 rules and regulations.  Had that part of her survived the transformation which 
was taking place in her body or was she growing closer to Susan mentally as she 
did so physically?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Cujus, cujus, cujus, quorum, quarum, quorum.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 And
 in any case how the hell was he to find out?  Once out of her rooms she never went
 anywhere without at least Cory her Centaur at her shoulder and even in her rooms
 there were always servants popping in and out on her, the wretched fawn Tumnus 
fawning on her and her Maid-of-Honour Pegwyn, an owl the size of a dining-room chair
 who perched on special posts built into the walls of all the rooms above head height
 and ordered all the other servants about, watching over her charge with sharp, 
glittering eyes.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Cui, cui, cui, quibus, quibus, quibus.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Deep
 in his bones Peter suspected that whatever her big sister had told her about boys
, or even perhaps because of it, his little sister would not object to a little 
harmless naughtiness with her big brother.  That she would go as far as to let him
 try putting his prick in her cunt he thought very unlikely.  Even doing what Susan
 did and wanking him to the point of making him squirt his seed would be outside
 the range of harmless naughtiness she would probably accept.  She would though, 
he was sure, be intensely curious as to what boys had between their legs, for Peter
 could not imagine Susan being too explicit on the point  - partly in case her little
 sister should wonder how she knew - , and therefore might be willing to look at
 and perhaps even handle his prick while if he pleaded innocence as to what girls
 were like, as he had quite genuinely with his elder sister, she might be willing
 to let him take a peek at her little breasts and perhaps slip a finger between 
her legs and into her hole.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Quem, quam, quid, quos, quas, qua.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 only time, though, that he could hope to be with her for long enough to lure her
 into a little naughtiness without the risk of interruption, was later in the evening
 when the servants had withdrawn after preparing their charges for bed.  Unfortunately
, visiting his little sister then would undoubtedly be a cause for gossip in the
 servants\u8217\'92 quarters as he would have to pass Cory at least to gain access
 to Lucy\u8217\'92s rooms, while Aldur his Centaur would come loyally with him and
 wait outside Lucy\u8217\'92s rooms with Cory for as long as he was inside, which
 was as good as telling the world, and especially Susan, where he was.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Quo, qua, quo, quipus, quibus, quibus.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Done that,\u8221\'94 Edmund announced pointedly.  Lucy\u8217\'92s chalk was 
still scratching on her slate.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Cohortem ibi collocavit ne quis flumen transiret,\u8221\'94 Peter said to his
 younger brother.  Edmund frowned into the middle distance.  \u8220\'93The army 
there gathers in case the river is crossed over,\u8221\'94 he slowly pieced together
.  Peter, who knew he could not have done as well at eleven, felt a grudging admiration
 towards his little brother and liked him even less because of it.  He shot a glance
 at Lucy\u8217\'92s slate, upside down.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Edmund,\u8221\'94 he said.  \u8220\'93I\u8217\'92m going to spend a little time
 with Lucy on quis and quod.  You can stay if you want, or go.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh, I\u8217\'92ll go then.  I\u8217\'92ve got something to do,\u8221\'94 the
 boy said.  \u8220\'93See you tomorrow.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Hateful beast,\u8221\'94 Lucy scowled as her twin walked quickly from the room
.  Peter, who didn\u8217\'92t disagree, moved into the chair vacated by Edmund and
 shifted it closer so as to be next to his little sister.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Don\u8217\'92t worry, we\u8217\'92ll have you better at Latin than him,\u8221
\'94 he promised, though what good that would do her he couldn\u8217\'92t imagine
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Steadfastly
 he worked with her on the indefinite pronoun - nominative, genitive, dative, accusative
 and ablative, masculine, feminine and neuter, and could not help but notice that
 his masculinity responded to her femininity.  He was so close to her that he could
 smell her, he was sure - a faint but exciting tang beneath the rosewater used lavishly
 throughout the castle. When she bent over the slate in her lap he could sneak peaks
 down the front of her frock and was sure he could glimpse in the shadows the low
 swellings on her chest that held such promise of things to come.  Casually he draped
 an arm across her shoulders and reached a finger down to the slate in her lap, 
erasing with his finger-tip a wrong letter only an inch from that secret nest between
 her legs.  Although looking at the slate he was sure he caught a quick sideways
 glance from his soror minor - little sister, he corrected himself - and a shy, 
oddly knowing smile, and felt her snuggle down a little into his embrace.  He wondered
 what she would do if he blew in her ear.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 tap on the door had him jerk upright and whip his arm away and he saw only too 
well the suppressed giggle in Lucy\u8217\'92s face as she recorded his guilty response
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Her Highness Queen Susan,\u8221\'94 the talking-badger announced solemnly.  
Peter sat upright on his chair and saw the girl next to him do likewise.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Did I see Edmund on the stairs?\u8221\'94 Susan demanded as she entered the 
room.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes,\u8221\'94 Peter said sheepishly.  \u8220\'93I sent him away.  Lucy needed
 some extra help.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93You shouldn\u8217\'92t let him get away with it,\u8221\'94 Susan remarked crossly
.  Then her eyes lit on Lucy.  \u8220\'93What on earth are you wearing?\u8221\'94
 she snapped.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Peaseblossom made it for me,\u8221\'94 Lucy explained nervously.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93That little minx!\u8221\'94  Susan clearly was not pleased although Peter could
 not guess why.  \u8220\'93Well, go and change.  Don\u8217\'92t forget you\u8217
\'92re a Queen here.  You have to dress the way people expect you to dress, not 
the way you\u8217\'92d like to.  I suppose I\u8217\'92d better go and see what mischief
 Edmund is up to.\u8221\'94  With a sigh of the hard-done-by she swept from the 
room in a swish of heavy woollen skirts.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 turned and made a face at her brother.  \u8220\'93I\u8217\'92d better go and change
,\u8221\'94 she said with a sigh.  Then she gave Peter a mischievous grin and stood
, her knee brushing his lightly as she did so.  \u8220\'93What a pity,\u8221\'94
 she said sadly.  \u8220\'93I was just beginning to enjoy the lesson, too.\u8221
\'94  She followed her sister out of the room.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 Latin forgotten, Peter stared after her.  Since returning from the trip to the 
seaside Susan had not been herself.  She had been tense and irritable, and it was
 easy for him to guess the reason.  She was surely not the sort of girl who would
 enjoy wanking boys off and she had certainly not thought she had the sort of brother
 who would take advantage of her by getting her to do it to him.  As a result she
 hated herself for doing it and was none too pleased with him for falling short 
of her expectations.  With a sigh he supposed he had better get her to stop doing
 it, although it was very nice.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
, though, had surprised him.  Had she appeared as usual wrapped in the heavy, unwieldy
 fashions Narnia seemed to like he doubted he would have noticed, but in the light
, flimsy dress the fairy Peaseblossom had made for her the girl his little sister
 was changing into had become all too apparent.  And she had noticed the effect 
it had made on him and played up to it.  She had not minded his arm around her in
 the least and he had a suspicion she was well aware he had been trying to peek 
down the front of her dress and had done nothing to stop the sagging of the frock
\u8217\'92s neckline which made it possible.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 little sister, he decided, would be in no way averse to a little naughtiness, and
 if he was going to stop his big sister wanking him off a little naughtiness with
 his little sister would be much appreciated.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Except
 that he had no idea how he was going to find the opportunity to see how much naughtiness
 she was up for.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Frustrated
 he rose from his chair and began pacing the room.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
had been five days since Susan had last sent that shiver of delight through him 
with her cool, clever but presumably unwilling hands on his prick and Peaseblossom
 hadn\u8217\'92t visited him in that time, which was an unusually long absence for
 her.  As a result his prick was hard nearly all the time and his blood was tingling
 with the unsatisfied need to squirt his seed into something, even if it was just
 a rag in his privy.  He did not want to do so, though, in part because it no longer
 seemed manly and in part because Peaseblossom could come to him that very night
 and his prick would feel so much nicer in her mouth if he still had that honed 
urgency.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King?\u8221\'94  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
jumped and spun around.  The little fairy he had been thinking of was floating in
 through an inner doorway with what looked like the dress Lucy had been wearing 
draped over a tiny arm.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93May I speak, my King?\u8221\'94 she asked when she saw he had his attention.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Heavens, Peaseblossom, you made me jump,\u8221\'94 Peter exclaimed.  \u8220\'93
Of course you can.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93May Peaseblossom make so bold as to ask her King to speak to the High Queen 
on the matter of Queen Lucy\u8217\'92s dress?  Narnia has no wish to clothe her 
Kings and Queens in styles they do not wish to wear.  If Queen Lucy wishes to dress
 as a dryad dresses, then all the creatures of Narnia wish her to dress as a dryad
 dresses.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Uhhmff.\u8221\'94  On the one occasion Peter had actually seen dryads they had
 been wearing a lot less than Lucy\u8217\'92s light summer dress but the memory 
of that occasion, when he had squirted his seed inside the Queen of the Dryads in
 Susan\u8217\'92s form, was not one he wanted to remember at that moment.  His prick
, though, did and grew even more achingly hard.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I\u8217\'92ll, er, see what I can do,\u8221\'94 he said half-heartedly.  He 
feared that Susan in her present mood was unlikely to be shifted.  As though a voice
 had spoken in his mind a thought occurred to him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Peaseblossom, how did you get in?\u8221\'94 He gave voice to it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 little fairy\u8217\'92s eyebrows arched and she looked confused.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I came from Queen Lucy\u8217\'92s rooms through the door, my King,\u8221\'94
 she explained.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 sorted through his thoughts.  There were only two ways into his apartments that
 he knew of.  One was through the windows, which only small flying creatures like
 fairies could use - and only Peaseblossom actually did, he realised - or through
 the main door past Aldur and his valet at the very least.  The windows were closed
 off by shutters because of the rain, though - the castle was brightly lit by everlights
 which were magic candles in sconces on the walls which burned with a clear smokeless
 light and were never consumed - and anyway Peaseblossom had obviously approached
 him from the inner rooms, not those with an outer wall.  Had she passed through
 the reception rooms, however, the talking-badger would have died before allowing
 her to pass without being announced.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93No, I mean how did you get to me without anyone seeing?\u8221\'94 he asked.   
As far as he knew even the faerie were not able to make themselves invisible, or
 pass through solid walls.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
\u8217\'92s eyes went round with concern.  \u8220\'93Have I offended my King?\u8221
\'94 she wailed.  \u8216\'91Forgive me.  I did not mean to trespass on his privacy
.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh, Peaseblossom,\u8221\'94 Peter sighed in his exasperation and frustration
.  \u8220\'93You could never offend me, and you are always welcome to see me.  But
 I don\u8217\'92t understand how you could get from Queen Lucy\u8217\'92s rooms 
to mine without all that, \u8216\'91Does Your Majesty wish to give audience to the
 fairy Peaseblossom on a matter of Her Royal Highness Queen Lucy\u8217\'92s wardrobe
?\u8217\'92 nonsense.\u8221\'94  He had intoned the plaint in the solemn tones of
 the talking badger and the little fairy\u8217\'92s face lit up with delight.  Like
 a swallow she swooped across the distance between them, brushed around his legs
 like a cat and nuzzled his rigid prick through his breeches with her nose.  \u8220
\'93My King has need of his Peaseblossom, I can tell,\u8221\'94 she purred.  Wilting
 to the sensation Peter sighed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh Peaseblossom, not now,\u8221\'94 he groaned.  \u8220\'93This might be important
.  What door did you use?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The hidden door of King Gorboduck,\u8221\'94 the little fairy explained, floating
 a reluctant few feet away from him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 hidden door of King Gorboduck\u8217\'92?\u8221\'94 Peter echoed in surprise.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The hidden door of King Gorboduck,\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom confirmed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93What \u8216\'91hidden door\u8217\'92?\u8221\'94 Peter asked..\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The hidden door of King Gorboduck,\u8221\'94 the little fairy explained patiently
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 decided someone had to take control of the conversation.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93You mean there is a hidden door between my rooms and Lucy\u8217\'92s?\u8221\'94
 he asked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93King Gorboduck\u8217\'92s,\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom declared delightedly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 was distantly aware that there had been a King Gorboduck on Narnia\u8217\'92s throne
 many years before.  How many was a matter of some conjecture, as time in Narnia
 tended to take on a somewhat liquid quality in periods when there were no Sons 
of Adam or Daughters of Eve on her Throne.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Where is it?\u8221\'94 Peter asked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
 seemed surprised at the question, as though not quite able to comprehend her King
 not knowing something, but floated away from him as though expecting him to follow
, which he did.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 room in his suite which had as its only purpose the place where he dressed and 
undressed, for formal occasions anyway, was lined with walk-in wardrobes and contained
 one of the very few mirrors in Narnia, for the technology to produce float-glass
 and then silver it was utterly absent.  The closest equivalent was highly polished
 dwarven steel but even the dwarves were hard-pressed to produce a flawless, perfectly
 flat piece any larger than a small shield which was capable of remaining undistorted
 by its own weight.  The dressing rooms of the Royal Suites at Cair Paravel, however
, each contained a perfect, door-sized piece let into a massive marble support which
 required several hours dedicated polishing each day to hold its reflective qualities
.  Peter barely glanced at his as he followed the fairy into one of the room-sized
 wardrobes.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Even
 the back of the wardrobe was panelled with the same intricately-carved oak that
 the rest of the Royal Suites were, although who was intended to appreciate it was
 a mystery.  Brushing aside a few garments limply hanging from their rails Peaseblossom
 used an innocuous carving of a grape-laden vine like a handle and slid sideways
 a panel in the back, revealing the interior of an identical wardrobe beyond.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
would be one of Lucy\u8217\'92s, Peter realised.  Her apartments, filling a quarter
 of the floorspace of that level of the Keep, were a mirror image of his own with
 her dressing rooms abutting him just as Susan\u8217\'92s study, he suddenly appreciated
, abutted his on the other side.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 interior of Lucy\u8217\'92s wardrobe was dark and as the little fairy moved to 
cross it to the door into Lucy\u8217\'92s Dressing Room, Peter stopped her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93No.  How to you close it?\u8221\'94 he whispered.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
 pulled on the wooden vine again and the door whispered closed.  Peter pulled her
 back into his own rooms.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Do the other rooms have hidden doors like this?\u8221\'94 he asked, excited 
but a little worried by the prospect.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93No, my King,\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom assured him.  \u8220\'93King Gorboduck had
 this one made so that he could visit the Princess without the Queen knowing.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 didn\u8217\'92t think that one through.  \u8220\'93Does Lucy know about it?\u8221
\'94 he asked instead.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 little fairy gazed at him, puzzled and he realised it was unfair to expect her 
to know what Lucy did or didn\u8217\'92t know.  As far as Peaseblossom was concerned
, he saw, her Kings and Queens knew everything.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Have you shown it to her?\u8221\'94 He took a different tack.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93No, my king.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Has she ever mentioned it?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 No, 
my King.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Who else knows about it?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Fairies,\u8221\'94 she answered promptly.  \u8220\'93We were here when the Queen
 found out.  But all else has forgotten it, I expect.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 nodded.  When there were no Sons of Adam or Daughters of Eve on Narnia\u8217\'92
s Throne the great castle/palace stood empty.  Even the White Witch when she held
 power apparently did not use it.  Any staff from a previous reign would likely 
be long dead when it was brought back into use again.  Only the Faerie were long
-lived enough to remember previous rulers, although only Peaseblossom actually did
, it seemed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Well,\u8221\'94 he said slowly.  \u8220\'93I\u8217\'92ll have to decided what
 to do about it.  It might be a good thing or it might be a bad thing.  I don\u8217
\'92t know yet.  Can the door be locked?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93No, my King.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Well, please don\u8217\'92t tell Queen Lucy about it.  I want to talk to her
 about it first,\u8221\'94 he said.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes, my King,\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom agreed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
gave the little fairy a little cuddle but although he knew she was perfectly willing
 to take his prick in her mouth and suck it until his white seed squirted down her
 throat, and he was tempted to let her do it, he resisted the temptation for he 
was also enjoying the tingling excitement created by the discovery of the door into
 his little sister\u8217\'92s rooms - a door which offered exactly the prospects
 of getting her alone that he had yearned for only a few minutes before.  Doors 
in Narnia had a habit of making themselves available once you realised you needed
 one, he realised.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 long hours passed in ceremonial duties, with everyone trying to keep out of a black
-browed Susan\u8217\'92s way.  Then, at last, night fell and Peter was able to shoo
 all his body servants out of his Suite, say goodnight to Dethenor as the Centaur
 took up his post outside his room, and in the loose gown he wore in his rooms creep
 through the hidden door into Lucy\u8217\'92s wardrobe.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 All
 seemed silent in the rooms beyond and he wondered of his little sister was already
 in bed asleep.  If she was he hardly had enough of an excuse to creep in and wake
 her up.  When he opened the door from the wardrobe to her dressing room a tiny 
crack, though, the first thing he saw was Lucy herself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was dressed again in the summer-dress her big sister had taken such an unexpected
 exception to, standing in front of her big mirror and twisting this way and that
 to make the light material swirl around her knees while she watched her image in
 the mirror, head tilted critically to one side.  Then she turned around and, head
 craned back over her shoulder, watched the effect on her rear.  Turning back to
 face herself she then ironed the front of the dress flat against her chest with
 her hands and was quite clearly examining the little lumps in the cloth formed 
by the tiny breasts beneath.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Hummm,\u8221\'94 she commented critically.  Then she released the material and
, peering down at herself, was quite clearly trying to see how much of herself she
 could see beneath the neckline.  Peter watched through the crack, breathless.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Susan, I think you\u8217\'92re hateful,\u8221\'94 he heard his little sister
 hiss under her breath.  Then his heart stopped as she reached behind her back and
 began undoing the buttons of the dress.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
, like her brother, had at least three body-servants who\u8217\'92s only function
 was to do up and undo the buttons, laces and straps of her clothing, and the fact
 that they were not there falling over each other and getting in each other\u8217
\'92s way as they strove to do it told Peter that she had sent them all away for
 the day, along with all the others.  So she was alone.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Rather
 awkwardly she undid the buttons, shrugged the material off her shoulders and let
 the dress fall in a soft pink cloud around her ankles.  She was naked beneath it
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Ohhh,\u8221\'94 Peter breathed at the sight, half-afraid that his little sister
 was going to hear his heart thumping.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 As 
he watched she smoothed her hands over her tiny breasts, small, soft-looking, nipple
-tipped mounds on her chest.  In truth they hardly existed at all.  Susan\u8217\'92
s breasts, he knew very well, were quite distinct parts of her body, proud projections
 from her chest bearing her cherry-ringed nipples as though ready to be suckled 
tomorrow.  Her little sister\u8217\'92s were no more than suggestions of what was
 to come, little puffy promises.  Gentle pads of flesh just beginning to appear 
beneath the flat plane of her chest, lifting pale circular rose-bud nipples slightly
 above the level of her ribs.  They were next to nothing at all, yet the sight of
 them made her brother\u8217\'92s blood burn.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 a dissatisfied sniff Lucy covered them with her hands and crushed them against 
her chest.  Then she slid her hands down her stomach, made an empty heart-shape 
between the tips of her thumbs and fingertips of both hands and slid it between 
her legs, framing her sex in it and studying it in the mirror.  Her big brother 
studied it too.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 had hair between her legs, he remembered only too well.  A vertical dark moustache
 of hair along the line of her slit with a thinner growth spreading out sideways
 from it.  Little Lucy had only a curving pad of smooth bald skin between her thighs
, deeply incised by her girlhood.  The sight made her brother\u8217\'92s heart pound
 uncomfortably.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 a grimace Lucy slipped her hands from between her legs and then, to Peter\u8217
\'92s amazement, she slid a finger along the crack deep between her legs and burrowed
 its tip into her body.  For a moment she played with herself and then took her 
hand away, frowning.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Not the same,\u8221\'94 Peter heard her breath disappointedly.  Not the same
 as what, he wondered, amazed?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 a shrug Lucy turned away from the mirror and padded from the room towards what 
Peter knew would be her bedroom.  As she left the room the everlights in their sconces
 dimmed in accordance with the terms of the spell that controlled them.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 realised that he was standing with his prick in his hand, gently stroking it as
 he recalled what he had just witnessed.  His little eleven-year-old sister was 
very clearly quite aware of the changes starting to take effect in her body, and
 just as clearly somewhat dissatisfied that they were not happening faster.  She
 was obviously sexually aware, and from her responses to his attentions during the
 Latin lesson earlier, was also aware and not averse to the effects her sexuality
 was having on her big brother.  With a crystal certainly he knew his little sister
 would not stop him from examining her new breasts, would be willing to let him 
explore the mystery between her legs, and would be interested in seeing, and touching
, the sex organs he had and she didn\u8217\'92t.  Because he was her big brother
 she would be happy to masturbate him if that what was he wanted her to do, and 
if he wanted her to be naked so that he could fondle her little breasts and explore
 between her legs at the same time, he was sure she would regard it as part of the
 fun. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Why
 his sisters should be so different he couldn\u8217\'92t imagine, but it was a difference
 that went way back.  Susan had always been so ladylike and correct, and he assumed
 that sex for her was something sinful and dirty.  Something nice girls didn\u8217
\'92t do.  Lucy had always been more mischievous, less willing to be bound by rules
 and restrictions.  Sex for her, Peter guessed, was more a matter of naughtiness
 than sin, and she had always been drawn to naughtiness like a moth to a flame.  
Good old Lucy, he thought as he opened her wardrobe door wider and slipped into 
the room.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Promptly
 the everlights brightened for him but his sister\u8217\'92s bedroom was two rooms
 away and there was no-one other than Peter to notice.  Like a schoolboy sneaking
 back into the dorm after a night-time raid on the tuck-shop he crept through the
 empty rooms to her bedroom door, which was closed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 This
 was the crucial moment.  If he startled her into a scream her centaur, Cory, would
 be into the room, followed by a crowd of servants and guards, within moments.  
All, no doubt, would be abashed and apologetic when they discovered who it was had
 startled the Queen, but Susan would inevitably come to hear of it and would, no
 doubt, harbour dark suspicions as to what he was doing in Lucy\u8217\'92s rooms
.  After all, he had shown himself to have no qualms about using his elder sister
 for sex so to her mind it was surely only to be expected that he would have no 
difficulty using his younger sister for sex also.  Which of course was what he was
 hoping for.  But if Susan were to get to hear of it things would become very awkward
 indeed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 his heart in his mouth he tapped lightly on the panels of the door and as loud 
as he dared whispered, \u8220\'93Hey Lucy.  It\u8217\'92s me.  Peter.\u8221\'94\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 There
 was no scream in response.  In fact there was no reply at all.  Nervously Peter
 twisted the door handle and eased it open.  \u8220\'93Lucy, are you awake?  It\u8217
\'92s Peter.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 There
 was still no answer so he opened the door far enough to stick his head around it
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 was sitting up in the middle of her huge bed, gazing wide-eyed at the door in alarm
.  When she recognised her brother, however, the alarm turned to amazement.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Peter,\u8221\'94 she gasped.  \u8220\'93What do you want?  How did you get in
?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
slipped around the door and closed it behind him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93There\u8217\'92s a secret door, between your rooms and mine,\u8221\'94 he explained
 low-voiced.  \u8220\'93I only found out about it today.\u8221\'94  He padded across
 the room to stand beside her bed, her eyes following him.  The main lights in the
 bedrooms, which responded only to their owner\u8217\'92s voice commands, were dark
 but an everlight on a cabinet to each side of the bed burned brightly, bathing 
the bed in golden light.  Lucy, in a high-necked white-linen nightgown, had been
 sitting up in bed stitching some embroidery, Peter noticed, but the frame, needle
 and silks were forgotten in her hands.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I, er, wondered if you might like to continue today\u8217\'92s lesson,\u8221
\'94 he suggested.  \u8220\'93But if you don\u8217\'92t...  Well...,   I can go 
away again.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
stood beside the bed while she studied him, clearly thinking something through.  
Then she grinned.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93All right,\u8221\'94 she said.  \u8220\'93I think I was just beginning to get
 it.\u8221\'94  She set the embroidery materials on the table beside her bed and
 arranged herself sitting primly upright, a suitably studious expression on her 
face, waiting.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 slid onto the bed next to her and tentatively put an arm around her shoulders.  
She snuggled up to him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Er, quis, qua, quid, qui, quae, qua,\u8221\'94 he suggested unsteadily.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Quis, qua, quid, qui, quae, qua,\u8221\'94 she echoed obediently, but with a
 little giggle at the end.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Gently
 he blew in her ear.  She snuggled a little deeper into his arm.  Coming at last
 to accept what he suspected his little sister already had, he give up on the Latin
 and gently kissed her ear.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 At 
that Lucy giggled and snuggled again.  Crossing a Rubicon of his own Peter moved
 to kiss her on the mouth while at the same time boldly caressing her chest beneath
 the linen nightgown she was wearing.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
located the little bulging softness of her breast and stroked it, and she let him
.  Asserting himself he pressed her back against her pillows and kissed her mouth
, cheeks and nose, exploring her little breasts with his fingertips while she kissed
 him back and put her arms around his neck, a posture which perhaps not accidentally
 forced some more little-girl flesh into the tiny mounds of her breasts beneath 
the thick cloth under his hands.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Maintaining
 the gentle kiss he let go of his little sister\u8217\'92s breast and slid his hand
 down her flanks to where her body disappeared beneath the sheets and blankets of
 her bed.  Almost imperceptibly he felt her body move beneath his hand as though
 inviting him to continue but in the tangle of cloth around her waist he could go
 no further.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Will
 you take your nightdress off?\u8221\'94 he breathed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93All right,\u8221\'94 Lucy agreed after keeping him waiting a moment.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
released her, hunkering back on the bed to give her room as she wriggled the long
 garment up around her legs and hips beneath the blankets and then up her trunk 
and arms.  For a moment she was sitting pulling it over her head with her arms up
, her face swathed in the material and her posture revealing her little puffy breasts
 clear on her chest.  Then she fought herself free of the material and threw it 
onto the floor beside the bed, turning to face her big brother, naked to the hips
 in the bed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Gosh, you are beautiful, Lucy,\u8221\'94 Peter breathed, admiring her nudity
 frankly.  She grinned, clearly pleased.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I\u8217\'92ve begun to grow,\u8221\'94 she pointed out, thrusting her little
 breasts at him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93So I see,\u8221\'94 Peter agreed, taking them into his hands.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was clearly enjoying having him fondle them, as was he, but he wanted already to
 move on.  To explore what she had between her legs.  But he still wasn\u8217\'92
t sure his little sister was prepared to go that far.  Gathering her into one arm
 again he resumed kissing her, and after a moment slid the hand which had been exploring
 her little breasts down her stomach to the barrier of bedclothes rumpled around
 her waist.  When she didn\u8217\'92t react to that he burrowed beneath the sheets
 and rested his hand uncertainly in the cup of her lap.  Beneath his fingers he 
could feel the soft rise of the cushion of flesh between her legs and even the very
 beginnings of the cleft that ran between them, but the valley itself was closed
 by the press of her thighs as she sat.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93You can if you want,\u8221\'94 his little sister breathed under his kiss, and
 opened her legs to give him access.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Breathless
 and with a pounding heart he eased his finger down the groove and into the warm
, moist tangle of flesh within it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 In 
the shadows of the dell of the Dryads festival he had not been able to see what 
lay between the Dryad Queen\u8217\'92s legs and his prick had been guided to the
 hole within this maze by her fingers while he had not thought to explore between
 her legs with his own.  In his pavilion in the beach beside the bay his big sister
 had sat back on a table and unwillingly spread her legs for him, allowing him to
 see a girl\u8217\'92s genitals because, as King, he had a right to know such things
.  Susan would never in a million years, though, allow him to touch her there, he
 suspected.  But now his little sister\u8217\'92s sex was open to him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 All
 else forgotten he explored her with acutely sensitive fingertips, gently rolling
 the folds of flesh aside to find the floor of the cleft, toying with the tiny finger
 of skin like a little penis which half covered it and, with amazement, discovering
 between two warm, moist flaps of flesh, the rim of the well which penetrated into
 her body.  Unbreathing he explored its edges with his fingertip and then slowly
, gingerly, inserted it into his little sister\u8217\'92s body.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93That\u8217\'92s my vagina,\u8221\'94 she breathed, her own voice slightly unsteady
.  \u8220\'93My cunt,\u8221\'94 she added shyly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8216
\'91Cunt\u8217\'92 to Peter was an extremely rude word, yet if his little sister
 chose to use it in relation to the one she owned who was he to chastise her, particularly
 while he was carefully easing his finger into it, which was itself an extremely
 rude thing to do.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Little
 Lucy\u8217\'92s cunt could easily accommodated the full length his finger with 
room to spare, he discovered.  Around the rim it was hard, almost bony, but inside
 it soft pillows of hot, wet girl-flesh pressed softly against his finger yet gave
 willingly if he pressed back.  The cunt of the Queen of the Dryads had accommodated
 his prick in exactly the same manner, and the sensations that had woken in his 
prick had been unbelievable.  The same sensations, he knew, would be given to his
 prick by the soft embrace of his little sister\u8217\'92s cunt were it to go there
, but that, surely was out of the question.  Of course Lucy would never allow that
, and even if she did he, as her elder brother, knew it would be very, very wrong
 for him to put it there.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 a vast disappointment at the realisation he began gently sliding his finger in 
and out of his little sister\u8217\'92s cunt, heard her gasp with delight and felt
 her melt in his arm.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Even
 what he was doing was very, very wrong, he felt sure.  Susan would never permit
 him to slid a finger into her cunt and Susan, being older, more correct and a whole
 lot more responsible than her younger sister, was a much better guide as to what
 was and what wasn\u8217\'92t proper.   He was responsible for Lucy and even if 
she didn\u8217\'92t mind his finger poking up her cunt he most certainly should.  
With regret he decided to stop but at exactly the same moment his little sister 
suddenly reached out, slid her hand beneath his gown and took his prick in her hand
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh,\u8221\'94 he grunted, very nearly ejaculating over her hand in response.  
Lucy giggled.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Isn\u8217\'92t it funny,\u8221\'94 she observed, carefully exploring his prick
\u8217\'92s length and rigidity with her little fingers just as he was exploring
 her vagina\u8217\'92s depth and softness.  \u8220\'93What\u8217\'92s it like, having
 one of these?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Er.\u8221\'94 He paused, nonplussed by the question.  \u8220\'93It\u8217\'92
s not always stiff like that.  Mostly it\u8217\'92s floppy and soft, and doesn\u8217
\'92t get in the way.  When it goes stiff it\u8217\'92s a bit of a nuisance, though
.\u8221\'94 \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93And it goes stiff so it can go into a girl\u8217\'92s cunt,\u8221\'94 she observed
 rhetorically.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Er, yes.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93So it wants to go into mine?\u8221\'94 she asked innocently.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Well, yes,\u8221\'94 Peter said helplessly.  \u8220\'93But..., well..., I mean
.  You\u8217\'92re so young still.  And you\u8217\'92re my sister.\u8221\'94\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Ah.\u8221\'94  His sister was gently stroking fire into his prick as his finger
 probed her hot, wet insides.  \u8220\'93Can I see it?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Er, well, yes.  I don\u8217\'92t see why not,\u8221\'94 he almost gasped.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 As 
they were semi-reclining each only had one hand free and Peter\u8217\'92s was between
 his little sister\u8217\'92s legs as hers was fondling his prick beneath his gown
.  Reluctantly Peter slid his finger out of Lucy and opened his gown, exposing her
 prick to her view.  After a moment she slid her head down his chest as though for
 a closer view.  Then she slid further and took his prick in her mouth just as she
 had seen her mother do to her father the night she had been conceived.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh, Luce,\u8221\'94 her big brother groaned, unable to resist the sensation 
of her tongue and lips around the helmet of his prick.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Gently
, as though giving a King\u8217\'92s blessing, he laid his hands on his little sister
\u8217\'92s head as she lay it in his lap, her mouth busy on his prick much as Peaseblossom
\u8217\'92s little fairy mouth did.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh, Luce.  I\u8217\'92m coming,\u8221\'94 he gasped after a very few moments
 of this.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 little sister paused, not quite understanding what he meant.  Then the stiff rod
 in her mouth jerked and gout after hot gout of fluid squirted against her tongue
 and throat.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 recognised the taste for she had tasted Aslan\u8217\'92s sperm and realised that
 her brother was delivering his seed into her mouth as Aslan had delivered his into
 her womb.  That he would do so surprised her for a moment, but then with a woman
\u8217\'92s intuition realised that a man has very little control over the delivery
 of his seed and that by stimulating it with her mouth she had caused it to happen
 whether he wanted it to or not.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 had caused it to happen, she thought again as she held her head still and received
 her big brother\u8217\'92s ejaculation into her mouth.  A great swell of pride 
and triumph filled her at the realisation.  She was the cause of it.   She could
 feel that her big brother, the High King and four vast years older than she, was
 for that moment in her control, her pawn, and it made her feel good.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 thing in her mouth stopped spurting, although it continued twitching and she could
 feel his seed still oozing from it onto her tongue.  Holding her lips closed around
 the shaft of her brother\u8217\'92s prick she manoeuvred the slimy globs of his
 seed into one pool at the back of her throat and swallowed it, then sucked the 
dregs still oozing from its tip.  As she did she felt the boy nearly swoon with 
delight at the sensation.  She could do this.  Little half-grown, eleven-year-old
 her could do this for her big, brave brother, ruler of Narnia.  Did Susan do it
 as well, she wondered?  And did she do it better?  And did she do the other thing
 as well?  The thing Aslan had taught her?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 fire her brother had lit between her legs with his finger was still simmering and
 the boy was laying panting on her bed.  His prick in her mouth was still rock-hard
, so she cleaned the last dribble of his seed from its tip with her tongue and then
 lifted her mouth off it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh good gracious, Lucy,\u8221\'94 he breathed.  \u8220\'93That was fantastic
.  But what made you.....?   How could you....?  Who taught you....?\u8221\'94\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Those
 were awkward questions to answer for she did not want to admit having been fucked
 by Aslan already, or to what she had seen in their parent\u8217\'92s bedroom.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Girls know about these things,\u8221\'94 she said archly and obliquely.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Well.  Gosh,\u8221\'94 Peter breathed.  \u8220\'93But Susan...\u8221\'94\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
paused and Lucy waited, anguished, for him to continue.  Desperate to know what 
Susan....  Did she know better ways for him of doing what Lucy had just done?  Or
 did she do more?  Did she do IT?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Of 
course she did, Lucy decided.  Her big sister was more than half-way to becoming
 a woman, and would do IT with her brother.  They were the elders, pathfinding the
 way into adulthood for themselves and their younger siblings, and IT was certainly
 a part of being an adult.  But she could do it too.  She knew she could because
 she had.  With Aslan.  She wanted her big brother to know she could do it, and 
there was only one way to do that.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 In 
a single movement she slipped her lower half from between the sheets and, as her
 big brother\u8217\'92s eyes widened with surprise, she straddled him, took his 
prick in her fingers and held it steady as she lowered herself onto it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 As 
her cunt swallowed it the constellation of stars inside her popped like sparks just
 as Aslan\u8217\'92s prick had done to it.  Then she felt her weight settle across
 the boy\u8217\'92s hips, the patch of rough hair that surrounded the base of his
 prick just like his father\u8217\'92s pressed against the bald curve of her body
 and her brother\u8217\'92s stiff rod pulsed and twitched like a little animal inside
 her.  Oh, but it felt good there.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Lucy,\u8221\'94 Peter gasped beneath her.  \u8220\'93What are you doing?  We
 can\u8217\'92t do this.  I\u8217\'92m your brother.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 began gently rising and falling on his prick, bathing in the cascade of popping
 stars each stroke woke in her cunt.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Don\u8217\'92t you want me to?\u8221\'94 she asked, bemused and unable to stop
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93It\u8217\'92s not that,\u8221\'94 he gasped, holding her by the waist and beginning
 to match her movements, sliding his prick up and down inside her.  \u8220\'93In
 fact it\u8217\'92s wonderful.  But we shouldn\u8217\'92t.  Not brother and sister
.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Who says,\u8221\'94 Lucy asked, beginning to pant as the shimmering popping 
of stars in her cunt began to coalesce into the beginnings of an explosion like 
the one Aslan\u8217\'92s lion prick in her cunt had caused.  \u8220\'93If it\u8217
\'92s all right to do it with Susan.....\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93What?\u8221\'94  The genuine surprise and shock in his voice told her the instant
 truth.  He didn\u8217\'92t do this with Susan.  They didn\u8217\'92t do IT.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 I thought
...\u8221\'94 she panted, but she couldn\u8217\'92t stop.  The need to trigger the
 explosion her brother\u8217\'92s prick was priming in her cunt was too great.  
Desperately she pumped up and down on him, aware of a hot wetness like pee but which
 wasn\u8217\'92t pee flooding from her cunt and presumably flowing down his prick
.  Peter was groaning, thrusting his prick up and down in her just as she lumped
 up and down on him while his hands on her waist were holding her so highly it almost
 hurt.  In fact it did hurt, but the hurt was almost unbearably sweet, soaking into
 the explosion as it built and adding to the pending cataclysm.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Ohmygosh\u8217\'92\u8221\'94 her big brother groaned, suddenly arching his back
 and lifting his little sister clear off the bed.  His prick seemed to spear even
 deeper into her and she felt a sudden hot squirt of yet more of his seed, this 
time deep in her insides.  The tiny tickle of the squirt seemed to hit the button
 of her explosion and it detonated inside her.  Vast, hot waves of pure pleasure
 surged out of her cunt, wracking her from her toes to her fingertips.  As her brother
\u8217\'92s prick pulsed in her cunt it was like being pounded by a hot, red bubble
 of pleasure, almost unbearably sweet.  The explosion within her was too vast to
 contain and she felt a great squeal build within her, and realised that if she 
gave voice to it she would have everyone in the castle flooding into the room to
 save her from murder, only to find her willingly impaled on her brother\u8217\'92
s prick.  Unable to stop it she threw herself forward onto her brother\u8217\'92
s body and pressed her mouth to his in a kiss that seemed to blow the top off her
 head.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Slowly
 she surfaced in a warm, languid sea of pleasure.  She was lying on top of her big
 brother, she realised, with his arms around her and his prick slightly soft and
 wetly still within her.  She could feel that her thighs were soaked and where they
 touched Peter\u8217\'92s were slimy and sticky.   She could smell her sex, sharp
 and almost sickly.  She was breathing heavily and her big brother\u8217\'92s chest
 against her little breasts was still heaving with his exertions.  She had done 
IT with him when he hadn\u8217\'92t done it with Susan, and he had told her that
 brother and sister shouldn\u8217\'92t do it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
was true that Aslan had told her that the prick of any boy would feel as good in
 her as his had.  Come to that he had said that the pricks of horses and dogs would
 feel just as good in her as well, but he hadn\u8217\'92t mentioned brothers.  Perhaps
 she had done something terrible after all.  Something Peter had obviously wanted
 to do with her, but had been holding back from, denying himself because brothers
 did not do it with their sisters.  Something he and Susan wanted to do but didn
\u8217\'92t, because brother and sister didn\u8217\'92t do it.  Perhaps that was
 why things were so strained between them, for in Narnia they had no-one to be their
 boy-friend or girl-friend in the usual way.  They only had each other, but they
 couldn\u8217\'92t have each other.  And now she had done it with her brother, and
 it had been her fault.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Why shouldn\u8217\'92t brother and sister do it?\u8221\'94 she breathed.  \u8220
\'93What\u8217\'92s going to happen to us?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Her
 big brother had his arms around her and was holding her to him.  His prick was 
still inside her, growing soft, but still inside her.  Both felt good.  Peter sighed
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I don\u8217\'92t know,\u8221\'94 he admitted.  \u8220\'93Just before we left
 London...\u8221\'94 He paused as they both remembered that parting, and felt the
 fear of the unknown that had happened since.  \u8220\'93Father had a talk with 
me.  About girls.  And about you and Susan.  He told me that I might come across
 girls who would be willing to do things only married people are supposed to do.  
But I was not to do it with them, because they had to be bad girls and only trouble
 would come of it.  And that I was responsible for you and Susan, and to make sure
 that you were protected from boys who, well, who might try to lure or trick you
 into behaving badly.  I think Mother had the same kind of talk with Susan, and 
if Susan knew we had done this... Well, she\u8217\'92d be livid.  And quite rightly
.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 was thoughtfully silent.  She had not had any such lecture from her mother, but
 of course she had been so much younger then.  Just a child.  And of course their
 mother and father would both have assumed the two elder children would take responsibility
 for their younger twin siblings.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes,\u8221\'94 she said slowly.  \u8220\'93But why is it extra wrong between
 brother and sister?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 felt her brother shrug beneath her.  \u8220\'93I don\u8217\'92t know,\u8221\'94
 he breathed.  She thought for a moment he was going to leave it there, but then
 he added.  \u8220\'93Do you remember Roland Paul-Moreland?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 did, vaguely.  The boy had been one of Peter\u8217\'92s school-friends who had 
occasionally visited them in their London house before the war.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8216
\'91Roland had an elder brother,\u8221\'94 Peter went on.  \u8220\'93And a sister
 who was older than him.  Well, apparently one day their mother discovered Roland
\u8217\'92s brother and sister in the stables, doing what we just did.  And there
 was trouble.  Big trouble.  The sister was sent to live with an Aunt in India and
 Roland\u8217\'92s brother was whipped, and I mean whipped, by their father within
 an inch of his life.  So Roland said.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes.  But why?\u8221\'94  Lucy insisted.  \u8220\'93Why is it so terrible?  
I mean, it didn\u8217\'92t feel terrible, did it?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93No,\u8221\'94 Peter agreed reluctantly.  \u8220\'93It felt terrific.\u8221\'94
  Lucy felt her brother\u8217\'92s prick twitch appreciatively within her.  \u8220
\'93I think... I don\u8217\'92t know, but I think... that if a brother and a sister
 have a baby together there\u8217\'92s always something wrong with it.  It comes
 out an imbecile or has too many toes or something.  Brothers and sisters doing 
it is against the Bible, I think, and if they have a baby it bears the signs of 
their sin.  Or something.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93And besides,\u8221\'94 he added after a moment.  \u8220\'93You\u8217\'92re supposed
 to be a virgin on your wedding day, and do it for the first time with your husband
.  On your honeymoon.  I guess it would be too easy for every girl to give their
 virginity to her brother, if it was allowed.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh,\u8221\'94 Lucy said in a small voice.  \u8220\'93Well, it\u8217\'92s too
 late for that, then.\u8221\'94  In fact she had given up her virginity to Aslan
, not her brother, but she felt she wanted to keep that a secret.  \u8220\'93And
 I\u8217\'92m much too young to have a baby,\u8221\'94 she added.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes.\u8221\'94  Despite his dismay Peter kissed her lightly on the nose.  \u8220
\'93There\u8217\'92s that, I suppose.  I hope,\u8221\'94 he added in an undertone
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I am,\u8221\'94 she declared with conviction.  \u8220\'93Susan and I have talked
 about it.  A little. So,\u8221\'94 she said slowly, snuggling down onto his chest
 and giving his soft prick in her cunt a little squeeze with muscles she hadn\u8217
\'92t realised she had until they had something to squeeze against.  \u8220\'93You
 don\u8217\'92t want to do it to me again?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh Luce,\u8221\'94 the boy groaned.  \u8220\'93It isn\u8217\'92t that I don\u8217
\'92t want to.  I just don\u8217\'92t think we should.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Well,\u8221\'94 Lucy suggested.  \u8220\'93How about just doing it until I get
 old enough to have babies.  If we stop then it\u8217\'92ll be all right.  And we
 can pretend it never happened and I can be a virgin on my wedding night.\u8221\'94
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93It does make me feel wonderful,\u8221\'94 her brother admitted reluctantly.  
\u8220\'93Better than I have for a long time.  I guess if we stop before you get
 old enough to have babies it wouldn\u8217\'92t be too bad.  And if no-one else 
knows about it.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Well I\u8217\'92m not going to tell anyone,\u8221\'94 she declared firmly.  
\u8220\'93Are you?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Not likely,\u8221\'94 her big brother agreed with feeling, the spectre of a 
furious Susan lurking in the shadows.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Then that\u8217\'92s all right,\u8221\'94 said his little sister happily, pressing
 her little breasts against him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I\u8217\'92d better go,\u8221\'94 Peter said reluctantly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Wouldn\u8217\'92t you like to do it again before you go,\u8221\'94 Lucy cooed
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh Luce,\u8221\'94 her brother groaned.  \u8220\'93You\u8217\'92ve made me come
 twice already.  I\u8217\'92m not sure I can manage a third.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh!\u8221\'94 Lucy exclaimed.  This was something about boys she hadn\u8217\'92
t known.  \u8220\'93When will you be able to?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 a quiet laugh her brother kissed her on the nose again.  \u8220\'93Tomorrow.  Don
\u8217\'92t you worry,\u8221\'94 he promised.  \u8220\'93Now get off me, you lump
.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 obediently rolled off him, feeling his limp prick slide out of her cunt and a trickle
 of something slimy follow it to slide down inside her thighs.  Peter kissed her
 again and then climbed wearily off the bed.  His gown hung open and his prick hung
 limply from his groin, glistening with her cunt-juice.  It looked happy, she thought
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93See you tomorrow,\u8221\'94 Peter promised and then padded away, doing up his
 gown.  Lucy stretched languidly on her bed.  In a moment she would have to get 
up and wash the stickiness of sweat, her sex-cunt-juice and her brother\u8217\'92
s sperm from her body  in cold water from the tub in the room two doors away that
 served as her bathroom but for the moment she was content to lie and let the shimmering
 glow in her cunt die gently away like the embers of a camp fire, and not worry 
about how she was going to find out from her virginal elder sister how she would
 know when she was old enough to have babies.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f0\lang5129\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 8\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f0\lang5129\fs32\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy Peaseblossom kept to the promise she had given to King Edmund of Narnia in
 the White Tower.  She did come to him in his bed, and they did have a lot of fun
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 didn\u8217\'92t come every night and, like the tooth-fairy, never until he was 
asleep.  Most often he would wake up aware of a tiny, warm, naked body curled up
 beneath the sheets at his hip and a little mouth eagerly embracing his penis.  
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Sometimes
 he wouldn\u8217\'92t move at all, except perhaps to fondle the fairy\u8217\'92s
 sharp little shoulder or busy little head, until his orgasm had squirted his seed
 into the fairy\u8217\'92s sweet little mouth after which he would contentedly drift
 off back to sleep.  If, though, he felt the need to wriggle beneath the sheets 
to join her the fairy would make no objection to his sliding a finger into her tight
 little vagina, stroking, caressing and kissing her little body all over, assured
 him that few girls would object to his kissing their genitals and putting his tongue
 in their cunts and taught him how to locate and then tickle the little bud, which
 she informed him was her clitoris, until she orgasmed like a firework.  And she
 introduced him to her other orifice.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 This
 initially shocked and bemused Edmund, but he had to admit that the sight by dimmed
 everlight of the little fairy squatting over his thighs and bobbing up and down
 with his prick going in and out of her tiny bottom was extraordinarily exciting
, and the sensation was, well, sensational.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 To 
Edmund\u8217\'92s deep satisfaction it was quite obvious that neither his big brother
 Peter nor his big sister Susan had any idea that he was being so naughty so often
, or even that he was aware such naughtiness existed.  Lucy he didn\u8217\'92t think
 about much at all.  The fact that Peaseblossom spent as much time in High King 
Peter\u8217\'92s bed  was of course known only to Peaseblossom.  In this way in 
the weeks following Peter and Susan\u8217\'92s seaside trip, the White Witch drank
 quite a lot of the seed of Sons of Adam, with the power and life-force in it slowly
 restoring her own power.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 being Edmund he hugged the secret of the White Tower to his chest very tightly, 
although the long, creepy journey through the secret passages to get to its base
, and the long, exhausting climb up its hundreds of stairs, dissuaded him from visiting
 it very often.  In any case the secret of the White Tower was only a small thing
 when compared with the much greater secret the Fairy Peaseblossom had incidentally
 revealed to him when taking him to the White Tower - the extent of the network 
of secret passages themselves.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 desire to explore them thoroughly and drain them of all their secrets tugged at
 him like the moon pulling the tides from the sea but he was also very wary, and
 more than a little afraid, of them as the little fairy had explained that the builders
 of the secret passages had included some very unpleasant traps in their construction
, intended to discourage their being used by spies, assassins or trespassers in 
general.  Innocuous paving slabs were finely balanced above bottomless pits, waiting
 patiently through uncountable years to send the owners of unwary feet plummeting
 to oblivion.  Huge slabs hung poised amid the ceilings of the narrow ways, still
 primed to drop with awful finality onto passers-by below who did not know the secret
 of immobilising them.  Innocent, straight avenues somehow converted themselves 
into intricate mazes with no exits behind the backs of unsuspecting explorers and
 massive doors hidden in the stone of the wall itched to slam shut behind guileless
 wanderers, trapping them forever in silent, pitch-black cul-de-sacs.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Doubting
 not a word of it, for such things were exactly what he would have done had he been
 constructing the secret ways, Edmund discovered that the little fairy seemingly
 knew them well and enlisted her as his guide.  With her help was able to make some
 inroads into them and find several ways to exits in other parts of the castle or
 even beyond it which enabled him to escape the attentions of his minders.  He was
 well aware, though, that he had barely scratched the surface of what they offered
 but certainly had no desire to explore them without the help of the little fairy
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Eventually
 he did gain enough confidence to begin using on his own the routes he had become
 sure of, with a starting point always through the walls of his own rooms.  It was
 on one such cautious expedition that the secret passages revealed to him another
 secret.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Almost
 always he and Peaseblossom entered the passage in the wall behind his Suite and
 turned left, as that way led to a spiral staircase which descended to lower levels
 of the Castle.  There was a route to the right, though, which they had taken once
 and followed to its terminus on the keep\u8217\'92s roof through a trap-door which
, from the other side, looked exactly like just another flagstone among many.  Deciding
 to visit the roof again for no particular reason Edmund armed himself with an everlight
, let himself through the hidden door into the panelling and turned right in the
 passage behind it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 narrow corridor ran level in the thick castle wall for a distance and the turned
 sharp right again to stretch ahead for quite a long way before it came to the tight
 spiral which led upwards.  Cautiously making his way along one of the straights
 Edmund noticed a thin beam of light angling across the passage in front of him.  
That light should be able to make its way into the passage from outside through 
cracks or chinks in the walls was not entirely unexpected, except that Cair Paravel
\u8217\'92s masons had been so skilled that the stone blocks filled together perfectly
, and in all his other travels through the passages he had not seen another stray
 ray finding its way in from the outside world.  When he reached it he also realised
 it was coming from an inside wall a foot or so above his head, and directly beneath
 it was a low stone step like several others he had passed before and thought nothing
 of.  That the step enabled him to hop up high enough to actually peer through the
 crack the light was coming through seemed at first a lucky coincidence.  As soon
 as he did so, however, he realised it was nothing of the sort.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 light was coming through the corner of a deliberately made peep-hole in the wall
.  The hole had a little wooden flap intended to cover it on the inside, but this
 was partially dislodged allowing the ray of light to penetrate the darkness of 
the passage beyond.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Even
 fully uncovered the hole was no bigger than a pea and Edmund had to press his nose
 uncomfortably against the back of the wooden panelling in order to apply his eye
 to it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
was looking into an empty room.  Someone\u8217\'92s bedroom.  A royal bedroom.  
Taking his eye away from the hole he stared at the dark oak and thought hard, drawing
 in his mind a plan of the keep\u8217\'92s level which held the Royal Chambers.  
It was the sort of thing he was good at. It had to be Susan\u8217\'92s bedchamber
.  Reapplying his eye he saw from the pretty rose decorations in all parts of the
 room the he had to be correct.  Rose was Susan\u8217\'92s colour just as lilac 
was Lucy\u8217\'92s, royal blue was Peter\u8217\'92s and Edmund himself had, deliberately
 perversely, chosen white.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
\u8217\'92s bedroom!  It was early afternoon so he could not expect her to be there
, which she obviously wasn\u8217\'92t.  Later, though, at bedtime he could surely
 expect to see her prepare for bed?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 No, 
she would do that in her dressing-room, after washing herself down in her washroom
.  Did they have peep-holes, too?  With his heart suddenly pounding he carefully
 closed the little flap across the peep-hole, stepped down from the stone block 
and began looking for others.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
did not have to look far, as he discovered that every room abutting an outside wall
 had at least one peep-hole and some had several, giving a view of different parts
 of the room.  And as the inner rooms of the Royal Suites tended to be the public
 ones, where visitors were received, meals taken or servants gathered, it was the
 outer ones that were the private ones.  Susan\u8217\'92s washroom, dressing-room
, study and her sewing-room all had peepholes, he discovered, as did Peter\u8217
\'92s, Lucy\u8217\'92s and even his own as he found during a complete circuit of
 the level.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Back
 in his Suite he looked for the peepholes into his own rooms but even knowing roughly
 where they were he found them impossible to spot, so cunningly had they been hidden
 amid the carved decorations and natural textures of the wood.  A fresh, rather 
alarming thought struck him and he slipped back into the secret passage, but a close
 examination of the stone steps below the peep-holes into his rooms revealed that
 they were coated with a thick layer of dust which obviously hadn\u8217\'92t been
 disturbed for years.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 A fierce
 warm glow woke in his stomach as the opportunities offered by the discovery presented
 themselves.  When on his first arrival in Narnia he had temporarily sided with 
the White Witch, he had been fascinated by the role played by Maugrim, her Chief
 of Secret Police.  All three words attracted him separately, Chief, Secret and 
Police.  Each was redolent with Power and put together were irresistible to him - 
to know everything that was going on through spying, listening and questioning, 
and to be able to use that knowledge for, well, whatever it was useful for at the
 time.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 and Susan, though, would never countenance a Secret Police.  He knew that perfectly
 well and so, greatly handicapped, did what he could to perform the role of Secret
 Policeman in secret, forever in the hope of being able to uncover and reveal some
 terrible treason against them for which the would be otherwise unprepared, and 
eternally grateful.  So far he had been unsuccessful, but the discovery of the spyholes
 surely offered great possibilities.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 They
 also offered the more immediate and real opportunity for him to peek at his sisters
 when they were undressing, and that was something he very much wanted to do.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 For
 that, though, he had to wait until everyone went to bed, and that was still hours
 away.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
killed half the afternoon by thoroughly exploring his new realm and, with the aid
 of a piece of chalk, marking each of the peepholes with its identity - SB was Susan
\u8217\'92s bedroom, LD was Lucy\u8217\'92s dressing room, etc.  There were no peepholes
 into any of the privies, perhaps because they had not been privies when the castle
 was built, merely alcoves to a room, but in looking to locate them Edmund noticed
 something else that seemed very peculiar indeed.  The secret passage appeared to
 pass right through where they were built out of the walls.  Moreover, the secret
 passage also completely ignored the fact that the outside walls were pierced with
 small windows at regular intervals and, when you got down to it and measured it
,  was actually wider than the walls themselves where the windows penetrated them
. This seemed somewhat startling but, given that Narnia was after all a magical 
kingdom and that Cair Paravel itself quite definitely had magical roots, was not
 all that surprising when you thought about it.  No doubt it was easier just to 
build a standard castle and then add magical secret passages where you needed them
, than to do all the planning necessary to build them into the structure from the
 start.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
did, though, add an addition tingle to the already troubling unease he felt whenever
 he was in them, for he could not ignore the suspicion that he was in fact somewhere
 else entirely.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Dinner
, the daily formal meal for the rulers of Narnia in the Great Hall, was even more
 interminable than ever as Edmund eagerly counted off the hours to bed-time.  Then
 there was a display of scampering by talking-dog puppies which he had to intend
 to admire and enjoy, he had to listen to and applaud a new song by the Court Bard
, a talking or rather singing and particularly gaudily feathered parrot, and there
 was the reading of the passage from the Great Bible which Susan insisted they each
 do every day, in case they might otherwise forget how to read altogether.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 They
 had begun at the beginning, with Genesis 1.1 and ploughed religiously through it
, each King or Queen reading a bit each day when they were there.  Edmund had let
 most of it pass over his head, finding it incomprehensible even when he was reading
 it - though he did listen with interest to the bit about Lot and his two daughters
 living in a cave where the girls made their father drunk so that he would shag 
them and give them babies - and they had reached the bit in Leviticus where there
 was a great tedious list of things clean and unclean, which seemed to involve much
 killing and burnt offering of lambs, goats and turtle-doves.  As he watched Lucy
 standing at the lectern reading a long piece about men with running issues from
 their flesh, which sounded deliciously dreadful what ever it was, he let her voice
 drone on and instead studied the clothes covering her body, tingling with anticipation
 that he might very soon be able to watch her take them off revealing what was underneath
.  She came to an end and it was his turn.  He eagerly strode up to the lectern 
and picked up the placemarker where she had left it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Apparently
, he read, any man with a running issue out of his flesh had on the eighth day to
 take two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the tabernacle and give them to a 
priest, one as a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and the priest
 would make an offering to the Lord for his issue, whatever than meant.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93And if any man\u8217\'92s seed of copulation go out from him,\u8221\'94 he read
, still pondering the fate of the turtledoves, \u8220\'93Then he shall wash all 
his flesh in water...\u8221\'94  Then he realised what he had read and his voice
 dried up.  Lucy giggled nervously in the ensuing silence and Peter coughed.  Susan
 looked stony-faced.  \u8220\'93Go on, Edmund\u8221\'94 she said icily.  \u8220\'93
Don\u8217\'92t be a baby.\u8221\'94  He swallowed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93...shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.  And
 every garment and every skin whereon is the seed of copulation...\u8221\'94  Such
 was his mood of joyful anticipation that his voice trembled with hilarity as he
 realised that the solemn Biblical tract was presumable dealing with the consequences
 of a good wank.  \u8220\'93....whereon is the seed of copulation,\u8221\'94 he 
said again, delighted in the knowledge that Susan was listening and could not object
, \u8220\'93...shall be washed with water, and be unclean even until the evening
.  The woman also with whom the man shall lie with seed of copulation...\u8221\'94
  His voice cracked up.  Sometimes Peaseblossom would rub and play with his prick
 until his seed of copulation spurted out all over her and him, when she would clean
 it off with her fingers and tongue.  No-one could call the little fairy a woman
, but here was the Bible talking about such things between a man and a woman as 
though they were everyday events, with the only consequence being that they should
 both have a bath afterwards and be unclean until the evening.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Susan, what does it mean, to be unclean?\u8221\'94 he asked innocently, and 
with great daring.  If she wanted him to be grown-up and deal seriously with such
 things as spraying the seed of copulation about the place, and all over women, 
she should herself be willing to deal seriously with matters arising from it, he
 decided.  He also experienced a fierce joy that he was indirectly informing his
 big sister that he not only knew exactly what \u8216\'91seed of copulation\u8217
\'92 was, but that it could \u8216\'91go out of him\u8217\'92.  From her reaction
, though, it seemed that Lucy also knew what it was, and that was a puzzle to be
 picked at later.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I think it means that if you were unclean you couldn\u8217\'92t take part in
 some of their festivals and ceremonies,\u8221\'94 Susan said firmly.  \u8220\'93
That\u8217\'92s all.  You can sit down now.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 hadn\u8217\'92t read as much as he was supposed to but meekly resumed his seat, 
looking so serious and solemn that no-one could mistake his inner hilarity.  Scowling
 at him Susan took his place at the lectern.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93And if a woman have an issue, and if the issue of her flesh be blood,\u8221\'94
 she read, and then paused for a shocked second, reading on in silence.  \u8220\'93
She shall be put apart seven days and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until
 the even,\u8221\'94 she continued steadily after a moment. Something about that
, Edmund decided, had rattled her but despite this she read on firmly about how 
the woman and everything she touched, wore, sat or lay upon became unclean and had
 to be washed.  If a man lie with her when her flowers were upon her it seemed that
 he, too, became unclean, although why having flowers on her should make any difference
 puzzled to Edmund, who thought the idea of Peaseblossom naked in his bed covered
 with flowers was a rather appealing one. On the eighth day two more turtledoves
 had to be sacrificed and made a burnt offering, and there was something about a
 woman who is sick of her flowers also being unclean.  Being sick of flowers seemed
 an odd complaint. Was it talking about hay-fever Edmund, who suffered from it himself
, wondered?  Lucy, too, seemed to be having difficulty keeping a straight face but
 Susan, as she closed the big book, seemed unusually pensive while Peter looked 
downright uncomfortable.  Clearly something a lot deeper than he understood was 
going on for the two elders and Edmund ground his teeth with frustration at not 
understanding.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 As 
a result the evening came to a rather awkward end and Susan, who tended to be in
 charge of everything that happened within the confines of Cair Paravel, dismissed
 them all rather abruptly.  Edmund, who had been looking forward to the moment with
 increasing impatience, scampered away hurriedly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 In 
his rooms, surrounded by his Royal body servants, he undressed quickly, sponged 
himself down scantily at his tub, donned his nightgown and then ushered all the 
servants out of his suite.   Tarttak took up his post for the night at the outer
 door and Edmund at last, everlight in hand, could open the door to the secret passage
 and slip inside.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 agonised caution he made his way to the peephole marked SD for Susan\u8217\'92s
 Dressing Room, mounted the step and eased the little flap away from the hole.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 was not there, but he could tell from the gathering of servants scattered idly 
about the room and the buckets of steaming water being brought in and carried through
 to the tub in her washroom that she was expected before too long.  Patiently he
 waited and after a few minutes, proceeded by her canine Maid-of-Honour who brought
 all the servants to instant attention, the High Queen of Narnia entered.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 elder sister was still dressed as she had been earlier for the formal dinner   
Over a skirt of pale blue that fell in looped folds from her waist to the floor 
she was wearing another heavy-looking skirt of dark blue which only covered her 
hips at the front but which fell all the way to the floor at the back.  The effect
, Edmund thought, was a bit like sitting in the cinema waiting for the curtains 
to roll up and the film to start flickering on the screen.  Beneath the pale blue
 skirt were what looked like half-a-dozen petticoats the white hems of which flicked
 into view and then out of sight around her little slippers as she walked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Above
 the skirts she was wearing some sort of stiff tube in dark blue held close about
 her bulging chest almost like armour by lacing at the back, over a light blue blouse
 with a frilly neck and long puffy sleeves with lace cuffs.  Her ash-blond hair, 
which he knew from Peaseblossom she kept trying to grow longer but couldn\u8217\'92
t as the ends kept splitting, fell about her shoulders from a little cap of layered
 light and dark blue.  Edmund had never seen the clothes before that night, which
 hadn\u8217\'92t been all that special.  His sisters certainly kept the fairy seamstresses
 busy, he pondered. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 came to a standstill like a galleon drawing alongside a dock and her maids closed
 around her.  Lacing was unlaced, buttons unbuttoned and layers of clothing removed
 to be passed from hand to paw to claw and brushed, smoothed, folded and added to
 the seemingly vast number of other garments in her wardrobes and chests.  In only
 moments she was standing in the middle of the room in no more than a thin shift
 held away from her chest by the breasts beneath and one last petticoat which fell
 in loose folds around her legs from her waist to her ankles.  Edmund\u8217\'92s
 heart began to pound.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Then
 Susan snapped an order Edmund didn\u8217\'92t hear and the servant\u8217\'92s froze
.  She spoke again sharply and the wolf-sized dog - or, rather, bitch, - who was
 her Maid-of-Honour for the month quite literally barked an order which had all 
the other servants hastily filing out of the door.  The big golden dog shepherded
 them out and then followed them, walking backwards and bowing.  The door closed
 and Susan was alone.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 saw her sag.  From proud and imperious the fourteen-year-old girl drooped as though
 weary to the bone.  For a moment she stood as though collecting herself and Edmund
, who saw in the transition something of the demands his elder sister imposed on
 herself in accepting the role of High Queen, at least as she saw it, felt his heart
 go out to her.  Then she stirred, set her hands to the bottom of her shift and 
began taking it off, and his heart stopped.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 big sister\u8217\'92s breasts were the most wonderful, beautiful, astonishing, 
enticing things he had ever seen.  As she lifted her arms over her head to remove
 the garment they pulled taut on her chest, pouting, proud, rose-tipped and inviting
.  When she lowered her arms again and let the cloth slide to the floor they relaxed
 into firm, gravity-defying mounds of delight.  The skin containing and shaping 
the softness within was smooth and flawless.  The pale-red circle on each tip protruded
 slightly and contained within it a tiny button nipple sticking out a quarter-inch
 further.  Edmund crushed his nose against the solid wood of the panelling in order
 to get his eye a fraction closer and his prick pulsed rock hard as he soaked in
 the loveliness of his big sister\u8217\'92s breasts.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 sighed wearily, her breasts rising and falling visibly in response, and then slipped
 the waistband of her slip over her hips so that it could slide down her legs to
 the floor.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 had been wondering for months whether or not his sisters bothered to wear any knickers
 under the long, heavy skirts Susan decreed for them.  Susan at least, he saw, didn
\u8217\'92t.  But she was not naked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 A thin
 white ribbon was tied around her waist, supporting a flimsy-looking harness which
 ran, front and back, between her legs holding in place a pad which was pressed 
against her crotch.  Peeping above the pad at the front was, Edmund saw to his surprise
, a tuft of sandy hair between his sister\u8217\'92s legs.  A few hairs of almost
 the same colour had appeared between his legs around the base of his cock in the
 past few months, but he had not expected girls to grow hair down there as well.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 picked at the knot holding the band around her waist until it came undone and then
 freed the harness running between her legs.  Carefully she peeled the pad away 
from her crotch and studied it, and Edmund saw that where it had been in contact
 with her body it was stained with a wide patch of dark blood.  Wrinkling her nose
 in distaste Narnia\u8217\'92s High Queen scrunched the pad into a ball and lobbed
 it in the direction of her privy.  Then, naked, she padded out of the room into
 her washroom.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
, who had expected the move and had been ready to follow her to the appropriate 
peephole, couldn\u8217\'92t move.  His sister had been bleeding between the legs
 where, he knew from Peaseblossom,  her vagina was.  Had she injured herself in 
some way?  Had she inadvertently sat on something which had jabbed into her vagina
 and cut her?  Then he remembered something Peaseblossom had told him as, his seed
 of copulation safely down her throat, they had lain together in his bed just cuddling
.  That a virgin has a flap of skin across her vagina which has to be broken by 
the first boy to stick his prick in her, and which bleeds that first time.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Was
 Susan bleeding because the flap of skin across her vagina had been broken by the
 first boy to stick his prick in her?  If so it was obvious who that boy had to 
be for there were only two boys in Narnia and he was one of them.  And he certainly
 hadn\u8217\'92t stuck his prick in his big sister, much as he longed to.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
could only have been Peter.  Susan had let her brother stick his prick in her, breaking
 her virginity, and was bleeding as a result.  Susan had let Peter do what Edmund
 knew perfectly well she would never in a million years allow him to do, which was
 put his prick in her cunt.  Peter knew what it felt like to have his prick in a
 real girl\u8217\'92s cunt.   Susan, with the beautiful breasts who behaved so much
 like a real woman even though she wasn\u8217\'92t one, had allowed her big brother
 to shag her.  It wasn\u8217\'92t fair.  It really, really wasn\u8217\'92t fair, 
he howled silently into the darkness of the secret passage.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
, towelling herself off, re-entered her dressing room and crossed to the privy where
 she disappeared from his sight.  Still he couldn\u8217\'92t move.  Two minutes 
later she re-appeared and sheathed her nakedness in her bed gown which had been 
left ready for her, and Edmund hardly noticed as he stood shaking with fury and 
frustration.  Then she crossed to her bedroom, entered it and closed the door behind
 her.  The everlights in her dressing room dimmed and still Edmund couldn\u8217\'92
t move.  Peter.  Always the eldest.  It isn\u8217\'92t fair, his heart howled.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Eventually
 he moved, stepping slowly down off the step with some semblance of rationality 
returning.  In a way it was fair, of course.  Peter and Susan were closer in age
 so it was only natural that they would shag each other.  What rankled was the certain
 knowledge that Susan had no intention of shagging with her younger brother.  This
 hadn\u8217\'92t been too bad while he had believed Susan was not about to shag 
with either of her brothers, but now that she had with Peter but would not with 
him.... that was what was not fair.  It was perhaps understandable that Susan would
 shag with Peter first, but for her to only shag with Peter....  He felt his rage
 growing and let it turn into a cold, powerful fury.  Well, he would show them.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Quite
 what he was to show them was not immediately obvious, but establishing the principle
 at least was a start which steadied him.  In some way, he speculated, it would 
involve Lucy, and as he thought of his twin he set off down the passage towards 
her rooms.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Her
 dressing room was dim and empty, he espied through the peephole, which meant that
 she had been and gone.  Annoyed at having missed her undressing he tried the peephole
 into her bedroom and was rewarded with a view of his twin sister pacing the carpet
 beside her bed as naked as the day she had been born.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Although
 a girl she did not have much in common with her elder sister.  Her hair was a  
tad darker than Susan\u8217\'92s, a kind of sandy-blond like his, and she could 
grow it down to her shoulder-blades.  She had a rounder face than Susan and a mass
 of freckles which Edmund knew she hated.  She was a head shorter than her sister
 and looked, well, kind of stubby without Susan\u8217\'92s long, elegant legs, firmly
 rounded hips and deeply curved waist.  She still looked much like the child she
 had been for many years, just bigger.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Between
 her legs, squashed between slightly podgy thighs, she had that same little cushion
 deeply split with her girl\u8217\'92s crack that Peaseblossom had and presumably
 Susan had beneath that astonishing mat of hair, but there Lucy was totally bald
 and as she moved he caught glimpses of a tiny roll of flesh, which his experiences
 with the little fairy told him was her clitoris, peeping out of the crack as though
 it was just a little bit too big to lie neatly within it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 On 
her chest, where her elder sister sported those magnificent breasts, Lucy had the
 merest beginnings - tiny soft protuberances beneath nipples which were barely more
 that slightly oversized freckles.  Indeed they could almost be mistaken for a little
 extra fat on a slightly pudgy girl, and it was the promise of what they would become
 rather than the reality of what they were that fascinated Edmund as he absorbed
 them with his eye.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Her
 nightgown was lying on the foot of her bed in a slight disorder no maid would have
 been permitted to get away with, which suggested that Lucy herself had taken it
 off and cast it there.  As she paced beside the bed she gave the impression of 
a person waiting for someone, and waiting nervously to boot.  But that was impossible
.  What was his twin playing at?  He studied her again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was nearly twelve now, of course.  In a matter of weeks, just as he was.  He didn
\u8217\'92t expect it would make him feel much different from being eleven, but 
who was to say how it was for girls?  Then he tensed as a thought struck him.  Perhaps
 it was very different.  He had been too young to notice, of course, but Susan must
 have been about Lucy\u8217\'92s age when those glorious breasts of hers had started
 growing.  Did girls have to do something to make their breasts start growing?  
Rub something on their chests perhaps?  Peaseblossom had nothing in the way of breasts
 so it was no good asking her, he decided.  Was Lucy preparing to do whatever it
 was girls had to do to help their breasts grow?  Was he going to see it?  At little
 hot ball formed in his stomach at the possibility.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Then
, suddenly, the notion of his twin sister having breasts hit him with an impact 
that nearly sent him tumbling off the step.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
, with stunning breasts like Susan\u8217\'92s?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
knew now what a girl\u8217\'92s breasts were like and had experienced for himself
 the effect the mere sight of them had on him.  That his twin sister was now about
 to start growing hers was as shocking a realisation as if he had noticed that he
 was beginning to grow a pair himself.  Lucy was his twin, in some senses an extension
 of himself.  His alter ego.  For all his life she had been an alterative version
 of him, always there and offering a slightly different perspective he could at 
any time adopt if it seemed better than the one he\u8217\'92d found for himself.  
Now, though, she was beginning on a totally different path to his, and one he could
 not follow how ever much he might want to.  He was losing her, and it was like 
losing a half of himself that he\u8217\'92d never really known he\u8217\'92d had
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
could have squealed at spiders as Lucy had, and sometimes he had wanted to but hadn
\u8217\'92t because boys didn\u8217\'92t.  He could even have worn skirts like Lucy
\u8217\'92s if he\u8217\'92d wanted to, but hadn\u8217\'92t because you can\u8217
\'92t climb trees in them.  But under no circumstances could he grow woman\u8217
\'92s breasts as his twin was about to and that created a sudden, new and vast gulf
 between them.  Staggered he looked at Lucy across it with a completely fresh eye
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 For
 twelve years she had managed without a penis, and that fact had never impinged 
on him as he had waved his at the lavatory bowl or tried to hit flies with the stream
 behind bushes.  Now the fact that she didn\u8217\'92t have a penis but had instead
 a vagina slammed into him, forcing him to lean against the cold oak for balance
 as he reeled again. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 twin sister went in where he stuck out.  They were like complementary jigsaw pieces
.  He could presumably slip his finger into her just as easily as he did into little
 Peaseblossom.  No.  His knees turned to jelly and he swayed on the steps.  Not 
his finger.  His penis could go into his twin\u8217\'92s vagina and make them both
 in some incomprehensible but powerful way complete.  He could supply her with the
 prick she didn\u8217\'92t have and she could bestow on him the breasts and vagina
 he didn\u8217\'92t have.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
.  Even her name sounded different, now.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 A powerful
 desire to go to her swept through him but before he could move he saw through the
 peephole the pacing girl suddenly stop and her head come up as though she had heard
 something.  For a moment he thought she had somehow heard him, but then the door
 to her bedroom eased open and someone slipped around it as the naked girl turned
 to face it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
was Peter. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Under
 Edmund\u8217\'92s unblinking gaze his elder brother smiled a greeting at Lucy and
 then stepped up to her to take her in his arms.  They kissed, Peter having to bend
 his head a long way to do so for his little sister was a head and more shorter 
than he was, and Edmund saw Lucy kiss him back eagerly.  Peter\u8217\'92s hand\u8217
\'92s stroked the smooth skin of Lucy\u8217\'92s sides and back, and then gave her
 bare bottom an affectionate squeeze while Edmund watched his twin sister\u8217\'92
s hands burrow inside Peter\u8217\'92s robe and find their way to his cock.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 knew what was going to happen, for it was obvious, and he knew it was the very 
last thing on Earth or in Narnia that he wanted to see.  Yet he had to watch, transfixed
, as Peter gently pushed his little sister back against the edge of the bed so that
 she toppled onto it spreading her legs wide for her brother as she did so.  Peter
 moved between them with his robe hanging loose revealing his cock rearing eagerly
 from his thighs, longer and bigger than Edmund\u8217\'92s by far..  Lucy reached
 out for it frantically and guided it down to the fork of her body, positioned it
 where she needed it and then clung to her big brother\u8217\'92s neck like a monkey
 as he eased it slowly into her vagina.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 As 
he watched Peter\u8217\'92s prick firmly penetrate their mutual sister Edmund whimpered
 with pain.  Perhaps it was fair that Peter, as elder, should shag Susan, but Lucy
 was his.  She was his twin.  Peter had no right to her, and certainly no right 
to both his sisters while Edmund had neither.  This was not only not fair, it was
 a vast injustice in which he was the victim.  As he watched Peter\u8217\'92s prick
 slide back and forth in his own twin sister\u8217\'92s body something seemed to
 break inside Edmund, something small and insignificant but which was all that had
 been holding back an avalanche of monumental proportions.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 had a superb view of Peter shagging his little sister.  Like a piston on a steam
 train Peter\u8217\'92s prick, glistening and oiled with Lucy\u8217\'92s sex-juice
, slid back and forth in her body, remorseless as a clock from the moment when the
 flared rim below the helmet of his penis appeared between the sucking, floppy lips
 at the entrance to her vagina, to the moment the mat of sandy hair around the root
 of his prick pressed against the split, bald cushion between his sister\u8217\'92
s legs, and then back again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 had his hands on the bed above Lucy\u8217\'92s shoulders as she lay on her back
 beneath him, her breasts non-existent on her flat chest, holding his weight off
 her little body with straight arms so that her thighs around his hips and the sliding
 rod of flesh inside her were the only places they touched.  Lost in his own delights
 he dropped his head and kissed the top of hers, the only part of her he could reach
 in the position they were, and then stretched his face upwards as she arched her
 back and titled her hips up as far as she could towards him, allowing him to reach
 a fraction more deeply into her.  His thrusts gained more urgency, shorter, sharper
 and harder, his groin thumping against hers and rocking her on the bed as the girl
-child\u8217\'92s mouth opened in a silent paean of ecstasy.  Edmund\u8217\'92s 
smaller, thinner prick, rock hard against the cold wood of the panelling, quivered
 with envious empathy as he watched his big brother strive towards his climax in
 their mutual sister and tingled with faint echoes of the sweet surges of sensation
 that poured from Peter\u8217\'92s penis as it squirted gout after gout of hot semen
 into his little sister\u8217\'92s uterus.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Spent
, his head hanging and sweat dripping off his nose, Peter stopped with his prick
 still pinning his sister to her bed.  Impaled on it Lucy twitched and shuddered
 as her own orgasms rocked her and then her feet flopped to the floor and her knees
 dropped away from her big brother\u8217\'92s thighs.  Edmund saw Peter take a big
 shuddering breath as he regained control of himself and saw him speak to the girl
 beneath him, although he heard nothing.  Lucy\u8217\'92s face lit with a smile 
which seemed to brighten the room and stretched languorously, grinding her vagina
 around her brother\u8217\'92s prick.  Peter winced and slid it out of her and Edmund
 saw it hanging from his thighs, shining with his sister\u8217\'92s sex juice and
 streaked with smears of his own semen, sagging slightly yet still twitching with
 life, and satisfied.  His loathing of his brother reached new heights at the sight
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Wearily
 Peter leaned over the supine girl and kissed her lightly on the lips.  Then he 
ruffled her hair as a favoured brother might pet a kid sister, drew his robe closed
 and slipped easily out of the room again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 For
 several minutes his twin lay unmoving, her legs still wide apart as though letting
 the air cool the tingling, blushing, pouting lips between her legs and dry the 
shining grease which laved them.  The dark hole of her vagina was clearly visible
 to Edmund as though it was reluctant to close and a trickle of white semen, her
 brother\u8217\'92s seed of copulation, slimed slowly out of it and down the bulge
 of her bottom squashed against the bed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 didn\u8217\'92t want to move, either.  He didn\u8217\'92t want to think.  He didn
\u8217\'92t want to begin living again because as soon as he did he would have to
 start coming to terms with what he just seen.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 eventually stirred herself, stiffly and slowly.  From a table beside her bed she
 took a rag and wiped herself between the legs.   Then treading softly she crossed
 to the door and let herself out of it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 guessed she was going to her washroom for a more thorough clean-up or perhaps the
 privy to dispose of the mess dripping from her vagina, but he had no desire to 
follow and peep at her further.  He had seen enough.  He had seen far too much.  
Numb from the neck up he closed the peephole cover and stepped carefully down from
 the stone block, picked up the glimmering everlight he had set down on the floor
 and made his way like a sleep-walker to his own rooms.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy Peaseblossom was waiting for him, curled up like a cat on his bed.   She 
was fully dressed with her fake wings sticking up behind her and her long legs, 
a woman\u8217\'92s in miniature, folded to her chest and exposed to the smooth thigh
.  As he entered the room she lifted her head sleepily but though his eyes lit on
 her they did not register what they saw for several moments.  She slowly uncoiled
 herself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King?\u8221\'94 she piped in her treble voice, heavy with concern.  \u8220
\'93What troubles my King?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Peebee?\u8221\'94  Edmund\u8217\'92s eyes focussed on her.  \u8220\'93Oh Peebee
.  It isn\u8217\'92t fair.\u8221\'94  And he burst into tears.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 little fairy rose vertically from the bed and flittered around him like a moth, 
shepherding him across to it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Tell me, my King?\u8221\'94 she urged, kneeling weightlessly in his lap once
 he was sitting on the edge of the bed.  Huge worried round eyes peered into his
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93It\u8217\'92s Peter,\u8221\'94 Edmund snarled, stifling his sobs.  Ashamed of
 them he released his anger to drown them out.  \u8220\'93He\u8217\'92s shagging
 Susan and Lucy.  It\u8217\'92s not fair.  Not both of them.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The High King is the High King,\u8221\'94 the little fairy observed doubtfully
.  \u8220\'93He is the fount of justice and fairness.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93He\u8217\'92s a rotter,\u8221\'94 Edmund spat with feeling.  \u8220\'93A real
 cad.  He should be satisfied with Susan.  Lucy is mine.  She\u8217\'92s my twin
, after all.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8216
\'91The High King and High Queen are indeed a wonderful match,\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom
 offered cautiously.  \u8220\'93All Narnia will rejoice at their coupling.  And 
Queen Lucy is a loving and dutiful sister to the High King.  It must surely be a
 great joy to her to couple with him.\u8221\'94   \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 memory of how much of a joy it had been to Lucy stung Edmund deeply.   \u8220\'93
Yes, but it\u8217\'92s not fair.  He\u8217\'92s having them both and I\u8217\'92
m not shagging anyone.  I mean\u8217\'92\u8221\'94 he added hastily, remembering
 what the little fairy in his lap did do for him, \u8220\'93What we do is very nice
, but I can\u8217\'92t shag you properly \u8216\'91cos you\u8217\'92re too small
. And there isn\u8217\'92t anyone else in all Narnia.  Susan and Lucy are the only
 Daughters of Eve to shag.  But they won\u8217\'92t shag me if they\u8217\'92re 
shagging Peter,\u8221\'94 he wailed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Something
 imperceptible in the little fairy\u8217\'92s reaction to that caught Edmund\u8217
\'92s attention.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Would they?\u8221\'94 he asked eagerly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King knows his royal sisters far better than does little Peaseblossom,\u8221
\'94 the fairy told him gently.  \u8220\'93Only my King would know if they would
 be willing to lie down with him.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 King
 Edmund would have said it was inconceivable that Susan would lie down with anyone
 she wasn\u8217\'92t married to, let alone her brother, while Lucy he was sure had
 still not truly forgiven him for the events of their earliest days in Narnia, when
 amongst other betrayals he had accused her of childishly fantasising the Great 
Lion Aslan when he knew she was telling the truth.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Then...\u8221\'94 He tried to recollect what he had said that might have caused
 that minute alteration in Peaseblossom\u8217\'92s stance and that sudden flare 
of uncertainty in her eyes.  \u8220\'93Susan and Lucy are the only Daughters of 
Eve in Narnia, aren\u8217\'92t they?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
knew he had hit on it.  The little fairy was uncharacteristically silent, as though
 unsure of what to say.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Peaseblossom?  Tell me?  They are, aren\u8217\'92t they?\u8221\'94  He urged
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King, they are and they aren\u8217\'92t,\u8221\'94 the fairy admitted unhappily
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93That doesn\u8217\'92t make sense,\u8221\'94 Edmund glared at her.  \u8220\'93
Are there any other girls, Daughters of Eve that is, in Narnia?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King, there is one other Daughter of Eve in Narnia,\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom
 said.  \u8220\'93But she isn\u8217\'92t here.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 threw his head back in exasperation.  \u8220\'93Please, Peebee?\u8221\'94 he begged
.  \u8220\'93Make sense.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Peaseblossom will tell her King the story so he will understand,\u8221\'94 she
 offered.  Edmund nodded eagerly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Once upon a Time,\u8221\'94 she began, which in Narnia means, \u8216\'91This
 really happened but I can\u8217\'92t tell you when because Time in Narnia isn\u8217
\'92t exactly linear,\u8217\'92 or something like that. \u8220\'93Once upon a Time
,\u8221\'94 she began, \u8220\'93There was a King called Gorboduck who had a beautiful
 daughter called Princess Swanhilde.  The Princess was full of love and was always
 singing and laughing, and King Gorboduck loved stroking her lovely hair, kissing
 her sweet lips and blessing her with his seed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Alas, though, in her sixteenth year Princess Swanhilde fell ill and no magic
 or medicines could cure her.  The illness grew and had death at its end.  In his
 despair King Gorboduck consulted the Deep Magic, which offered him a spell that
 would caste the Princess into a deep sleep in which she would get no older, so 
that the illness would get no worse and she wouldn\u8217\'92t die.  Gladly the King
 cast the spell and the Princess fell into a deep sleep and grew no older.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93In his gladness the King prepared a vault for the Princess below Cair Paravel
 and there she lay sleeping.  Every night for many years the King visited her and
 stroked her lovely hair and kissed her sweet lips and blessed her with his seed
, and was in his way happy.  But one day, giving audience in the Great Hall, the
 King seized at his heart and died, and Alsan brought no other Sons of Adam or Daughter
\u8217\'92s of Eve from the Other Place to Narnia to replace him.  So Cair Paravel
 was given over to the silence and Narnia slept, and the Princess in her vault was
 forgotten, and there she sleeps still, no older than she was when she lived.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93You mean,\u8221\'94 Edmund whispered, \u8220\'93She\u8217\'92s down there?\u8217
\'92  He nodded in the direction of the floor.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes, my King,\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom agreed readily.  \u8220\'93Princess Swanhilde
 is a Daughter of Eve and she is in Narnia still.  Yet in her sleep she is not here
.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I see,\u8221\'94 Edmund said.  In England he would have scoffed at stories of
 beautiful princesses cast unaging into deep sleeps, perhaps by wicked stepmothers
 with doctored apples, but it Narnia it was perfectly feasible.  \u8220\'93Is she
...?  I mean, could I...?  That is, do you think....?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93If my King desires to know the sensation of shagging a Daughter of Eve, the 
Princess Swanhilde is a Daughter of Eve.  In her life it was her joy to be shagged
 by the King her father, and her joy to give joy to others however she could, so
 if it would be joy for you to shag her I think she would enjoy it.  But in her 
sleep she knows nothing and my King could do anything he wants to her and she will
 pay no mind,\u8221\'94 the little fairy told him solemnly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Well,\u8221\'94 declared Edmund loftily.  \u8220\'93I don\u8217\'92t know about
 that, but I would like to see her.  Do you know where she is?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes, My King.  If it is your wish I can take you to her.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes, it is.  Lead the way, Peebee,\u8221\'94 Edmund urged, standing up eagerly
.  This new and exciting discovery had almost totally overwhelmed the pain of his
 betrayal by his brother and sisters.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes, my King,\u8221\'94 the little fairy bobbed, seemingly untroubled that an
 eleven-year-old boy should want to go charging off into the uncharted depths of
 the Castle in the middle of the night.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 led him into the secret passages and turned left, lighting the way with her wand
.  Down the spiral staircase several levels and then into a network of passages 
she went and Edmund soon lost all sense of direction and became totally lost.  Anxiously
 he followed the fairy-light bobbing along in front of him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Eventually
 it stopped in a small, circular chamber with eight doorways leading out of it, 
regularly spaced around the walls.  Even though he had just emerged from one Edmund
 would not have been able to say with certainty which one it was.  The little fairy
 turned to him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93King Gorboduck was concerned that others might find the Princess as she slept
, and defile her,\u8221\'94 she explained.  \u8220\'93So he had these ways built
.  One leads to the Princess\u8217\'92s chamber and one back to the Castle.  The
 others lead to horrible deaths.  And they are not always the same ones.  My King
 would be well advised not to try to find the way without Peaseblossom to guide 
him.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 shivered at the warning, which he did not for a moment doubt.  \u8220\'93But how
 can you be sure of the way?\u8221\'94 he asked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
\u8217\'92s eyebrows disappeared into her bobbed fringe.  \u8220\'93I am Faerie,
\u8221\'94 she declared, clearly offended, and then shot without hesitation through
 one of the doorways.  Edmund had no option but to follow.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 passage beyond could have been ten yards long or a hundred, there was no way he
 could tell.  He caught up with the Peaseblossom waiting by a massive door of solid
 rock, thickly iron-bound and closed against them.  It looked like it would take
 a steam engine to move it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The Princess lies beyond,\u8221\'94 the little fairy declared and then blew 
a light puff of breath at the door, which swung reluctantly open.  She flitted through
 it and Edmund followed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 room beyond struck him dumb.  It was not large and had a shallow-domed ceiling 
painted an intense bright summer blue across which small white puffy clouds floated
 lazily.  Or, he corrected himself, appeared to float for if he actually tried to
 follow the movement of the clouds it was not there.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 room was octagonal and in each the eight corners a slender column of what looked
 like white marble glowed with a soft, translucent white light.  On the walls between
 them - on all eight walls, for there was no sign of the door he had just entered
 through - hung a tapestry like so many in Cair Paravel, except that the scene displayed
 on these was full of life and movement like a cinema screen, until you tried to
 look directly at it for the action.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 On 
one a group of brightly-clad young people streamed across a hillside of short grass
 in an exhilarating hunt, their clean-limbed horses capering and prancing in swirl
 of motion only when seen from the corner of your eye.  In another a pretty young
 girl in billowing skirts on a swing of laced flowers swung higher and higher to
 the pushes of a handsome boy while a troubadour sitting in the shade of a tree 
nearby sung of love.  Low, fragile boats fluttering with gaily-coloured streamers
 and bunting drifted lazily down a sparkling river while their happy passengers 
flirted lightly and sang. Lovely young ladies teased and tantalised their pursuing
 lovers with a flash of ankle or swish of skirt-hem in the turns of intricate mazes
 of honeysuckle and rose.  Laughing young lovers skipped a light dance on a camomile
 lawn in a soft snow of drifting cherry-blossom which swirled and caressed their
 lithe bodies as they spun.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Those are the Princess\u8217\'92s dreams,\u8221\'94 the little fairy whispered
 from Edmund\u8217\'92s elbow, as though unwilling to break into his astonishment
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 stirred.  The Princess was lying on a bed which was little more than a couch on
 a low dais in the centre of the room.  Nervously he approached her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was, as Peaseblossom had promised, quite beautiful.  Clearly only slightly older
 than Susan her hair of bright gold cushioned her head against a soft pillow and
 flowed beneath her shoulders.  Her face was angelic, a tiny upturned nose above
 full, cherry-red, slightly parted lips.  Her eyes were closed by long-lashed lids
 and there was no sign of movement beneath them but in the silence Edmund could 
hear the soft, regular whisper of her breath and saw the minutest flaring of her
 nostrils as she breathed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Her
 fine neck was long, smooth and as white as the marble columns in the corners of
 the room but her body below that was draped by a sheet of whitest silk which clung
 to the contours of high, round breasts which were visibly rising and falling as
 she breathed, and flowed smoothly across the gentle curve of her stomach and grooved
 deeply between her legs below the soft pouting mound at the fork of her body.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Are you sure she won\u8217\'92t wake up?\u8221\'94 Edmund whispered in disbelief
.  The sleeping Princess looked as though a pin dropped in the room would startle
 her awake.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Alas,\u8221\'94 the little fairy said sadly, peering fondly down into the face
 of the Princess from the other side of the bed.  Then with all her might she gave
 the Princess two massive open-handed slaps across the cheeks.  The twin impacts
 cracked loudly across the silence of the room and the Princess\u8217\'92s head 
rocked sharply from side to side on its cushion of hair.  An angry red flush spread
 across her cheeks where the fairy\u8217\'92s fingers had made contact, to slowly
 fade away as the Princess slept on, her breathing untroubled.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93It is an immutable rule of the Deep Magic,\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom said into 
Edmund\u8217\'92s shocked reproach, \u8220\'93That only the maker of a spell can
 unmake it.  King Gorboduck died before unmaking the spell, so it will hold the 
Princess in its thrall for all eternity.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh,\u8221\'94 said Edmund faintly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King,\u8221\'94 the little fairy breathed invitingly.  \u8220\'93Your Princess
 awaits.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 his heart in his mouth Edmund caressed a strand of gossamer hair falling past Princess
\u8217\'92s ear.  There was no reaction.  Slightly bolder he traced the line of 
her brow and cheek with the most delicate of fingertips.  The Princess gave no sign
 of awareness.  Acutely aware of the special significance of kisses in such situations
 Edmund leaned over her and cautiously kissed her soft lips, feeling the soft flutter
 of her breath in his throat and against his cheek, but the Princess slept on.  
As he straightened up after the kiss the fairy twitched the silken cover away from
 her body and it cascaded from the bed onto the steps of the dais in a flow of shimmering
 light.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 elder sister\u8217\'92s breasts had been stunningly beautiful, young and ripe with
 promise, but at least two-finger-breadths of flat, faintly rib-grooved chest still
 lay between them over her heart.  Princess Swanhilde\u8217\'92s breasts were firm
 and proud and fully-grown, pressing together over her heart and sloping smoothly
 over the contour of her chest as though it were made for no other reason than to
 support them.  Her stomach was white and smooth as milk between the rises of her
 breasts and the cup of her hips while between her long thighs a neat, sharp-edged
 tuft of short golden hair like a lawn lay along the line of her woman\u8217\'92
s crack.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Her
 legs, slightly apart to reveal the tumbled folds and rolls of female flesh extruding
 from the deep valley below the pad of hair,  tapered elegantly to trim little ankles
 and tiny, delicate feet.  Edmund, who would previously have said that nothing could
 be more stunning than the sight of his elder sister\u8217\'92s naked body, gazed
 at the nude Princess Swanhilde and forgot to breath.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Beneath
 his cautiously exploring hand her breasts were slightly resilient, giving to gentle
 pressure with obedient compliance but resuming their perfection of bold-arching
 line as soon as it was released.  Little hard, perfectly circular nipples teased
 his fingertip at the centre of rose-pink aureols softer than the softest velvet
 below his lips.   His hand glided effortless as a skier across the sweep of her
 stomach and hips to where the little tuft of golden fur at the join of her legs
 gently enmeshed his finger and invited it to linger and explore further and deeper
 in the vicinity.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 exquisite delicacy he wormed Princess Swanhilde\u8217\'92s clitoris out of the 
cleft in which it lay half-hid and parted the soft lips beneath it between which
 the entrance to her vagina waited.  It was a landscape he knew for little Peaseblossom
 had familiarised him with it well enough, but whereas the fairy\u8217\'92s clitoris
 and labia were the tiny, tight buds of a six-year-old girl those of the Princess
 were the full, lush ripe genitals of a sixteen-year-old woman, kissing his finger
 with hot moist promises.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Ohhh.\u8221\'94  He released breath he suddenly felt he had been holding for
 hours.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
, who had been hovering nearby watching as he explored the Princess\u8217\'92s body
, suddenly swooped in.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93If my King will permit me,\u8221\'94 she said gently, elbowing him aside.  He
 gave her room and watched as she reverently parted the long legs of the Princess
 and then lifted her knees up and apart.  \u8220\'93There,\u8221\'94 she said with
 satisfaction, and drifted backwards.  Before Edmund the Princess lay unmoving, 
the lush soft fruit of her sex wide open and fully exposed to him with the dark 
entrance to her body peeping shyly from its folds.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 There
 could be no doubt what the little fairy\u8217\'92s expectation was and Edmund was
 not about to disappoint her.  The couch was no more than knee high to him and he
 was able to mount it between the sleeping Princess\u8217\'92s wide-spread legs 
with ease.  Carefully he stretched himself out on her body but when he tried awkwardly
 to reach beneath himself for his aching prick little hands seized it and guided
 it for him.  As in a dream he felt the sex-lips of the Princess kiss its tip and
 part for him, knew only the slightest resistance from the hard rim at the entrance
 to her vagina and shivered with delight as the soft, moist, warm cushions inside
 her body received and enfolded him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Although
 the feelings given by Peaseblossom\u8217\'92s mouth around his prick were wonderful
 the little fairy could take little more than the bulb at its end in it, even when
 he it felt as though it was half-way down her throat squirting its load.  She could
 get the entire length of his penis in her back passage and its soft, dry squeezing
 of his bulb and shaft was delightful.  The hot, wet, silken press of the Princess
\u8217\'92s vagina around his whole prick was, though, something else again and 
far better.  Even the tight squeeze from her inner thighs around his hips, the soft
 return press of her breasts against his chest as he lay his weight on her and the
 smooth rolling rhythm of his back muscles as he stroked his prick inside her, none
 of which he could experience with Peaseblossom, seemed to add hugely to the wondrous
 sensation.  Moaning in his pleasure he burrowed his face into the golden locks 
of the Princess and gave himself over to the joy of shafting her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
could feel that, despite everything, she still slept and was seemingly unaware of
 his weight on her body, his prick in her cunt.  Fiercely he wanted her to wake 
and feel him there.  He wanted her arms to enfold him and crush him to her pressing
 breasts, wanted to feel her hips tilt and rise to meet him as he thrust into her
, wanted to hear her gasp as his groin thumped against hers and his prick pulse 
in its desperate attempt to fill more of the space it could feel beyond its tip 
inside her.  He wanted this gorgeous creature to know that it was he, Edmund, who
 was doing this to her, but the Princess slept on.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 seed of copulation boiled within him and flooded ecstatically from his prick into
 the soft billowing vagina of the Princess.  With it like poison from a lanced boil
 went the bile of his anger at his brother and sisters, the bitterness of his disappointment
 and the burning acid of his need for revenge.  His back arched towards the Princess
 in the glory of impregnating her and he saw a golden glow sweeping across the tapestried
 scenes around him as though they were lit by a passing ray of sunlight on a showery
 spring day.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 last of his semen dribbled from him into the sleeping Princess as the glow faded
 and died leaving the scenes as they had been before.  As his prick began contentedly
 shrinking he felt a great peace and weariness descent on him.  A powerful urge 
to let himself go swept over him, to sleep cushioned on the Princess\u8217\'92s 
soft breasts, his face buried in the pillow of her hair and his prick warm and snug
 in her cunt.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King, my King.\u8221\'94  Peaseblossom was gently shaking his shoulder and
 hissing in his ear.  \u8220\'93My King should return to his bed lest he be missed
,\u8221\'94 she urged.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
was long past the stage when he could have challenged anything the little fairy 
said.  Wearily he lifted himself off the still sleeping Princess, his prick sliding
 out of her vagina with a slurp.  Gathering himself he knelt between her legs and
 Peaseblossom\u8217\'92s mouth closed around his prick, licking the smears of his
 semen from it.  When she had finished he climbed off the couch and watched as the
 fairy bent to the Princess\u8217\'92s crotch and licked it clean also, covering
 her vagina with her mouth and sucking Edmund\u8217\'92s semen from it eagerly.  
Then she reverently rearranged the Princess\u8217\'92s legs as they had been before
 and with long, tiny fingers combed out her hair where Edmund had disturbed and 
tousled it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 her face creased with worry she appeared in front of him, floating so that they
 were eye to eye.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Peaseblossom regrets she is unable to let her King know her per vaginum,\u8221
\'94 she said softly.  \u8220\'93Does this mean her King will have no further use
 for Peaseblossom?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh no, Peebee,\u8221\'94 Edmund assured her.  He gathered the little fairy into
 his arms, hugged her and kissed her lips, getting a taste he recognised as his 
own semen.  \u8220\'93I love what we do together and I want to keep on doing it.  
But it would be nice to come here sometimes and do it to the Princess properly.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93As my King commands,\u8221\'94 the fairy said, looking pleased.  She wriggled
 free of his arms.  \u8220\'93Come.  Sleep awaits in your own bed.\u8221\'94\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93All right.\u8221\'94  Edmund make an effort to gather his muffled wits.  \u8220
\'93Peebee, can we keep the Princess a secret?  Our secret?  No need to let the 
others know.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93As my King wishes,\u8221\'94 the fairy agreed readily.  \u8220\'93Come.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Nearly
 sleepwalking Edmund followed her through the door in one of the eight walls which
 hadn\u8217\'92t been there a moment before and wasn\u8217\'92t there a moment afterwards
, and perhaps wasn\u8217\'92t there when it was, either.  Time passed in the Princess
\u8217\'92s vault.  Or perhaps it didn\u8217\'92t.  There was no way to tell.  The
 clouds floated past without moving and the happy young people energetically hunted
 and danced and flirted and pursued love in the tapestries without moving a muscle
.  Then the little fairy was back in the room with no doors.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 looked around her at the bright tapestries and the beautiful princess lying naked
 on the couch.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh, come out of there,\u8221\'94 she said irritably.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 For
 a moment there was no response.  Then from between the legs of the Princess a thin
 stream of mist began to issue like fume blown from a smoker\u8217\'92s mouth.  
It hung in the air by the dais and began to coil in on itself while the plume issuing
 from the Princess\u8217\'92s vagina grew thicker and strengthened.  As it did the
 flesh on her face began dissolving beneath the skin and her glorious hair sagged
 away from her tightening scalp, growing lank and losing its lustre.  The lids over
 her eyes sank into the hollows beneath, her nose shrivelled into a misshapen knot
 and her sweet lips shrank to become emaciated, dry rims to yellowed teeth in the
 grin of a skull.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 coil of mist grew into a column and thickened, and still more poured out of the
 Princess\u8217\'92s vagina to merge with it.  The Princess\u8217\'92s elegant neck
 wasted to a scrawny pipe of skin on deeply-ridged bone and her breasts collapsed
 to become empty bags of wrinkled leathery skin lying on a sharp-edged rib-cage.  
Her stomach became a concave pit of parchment between the cliff of her ribs and 
the sharp bony projections of her hip bones while her long thighs shrank to gaunt
 sticks of skin-wrapped bone and between them the soft cushion of her pubis collapsed
 onto the sharp arch of her pelvic bone, the welcome mat of golden hair growing 
grey, thin and scanty.  Above the couch the light of the ceiling faded and the drifting
 clouds became merely badly-painted globs of white on a flaking blue background 
while the tapestries between the age-crazed plaster columns faded to become age-
browned brittle rags bearing the indistinct outlines of a few gaudy scenes.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 From
 the gaping hole in the dry, walnut-wrinkled wreckage of the Princess\u8217\'92s
 genitals the last wisps of mist were drawn into the shape coalescing within the
 column of mist, the form of an old, naked man.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
stretched painfully and then put his hand ruefully to his cheek.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93A slight pinch,\u8221\'94 he observed dryly, \u8220\'93Would have done.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy shrugged carelessly.  \u8220\'93Have fun?\u8221\'94 She asked, disinterestedly
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93It was.....interesting,\u8221\'94 the old man said thoughtfully.  \u8220\'93
Still, I think I prefer being on top sticking it in than being underneath being 
stuck into.  Seemed a bit demeaning, somehow.\u8221\'94  He directed a challenging
 grin at the fairy but she merely sneered back.  \u8220\'93I must admit that your
 cunts are certainly sensitive,\u8221\'94 he continued after a moment.  \u8220\'93
I\u8217\'92d certainly like to try it on the receiving end of a real prick.\u8221
\'94  He thrust his erect one provocatively at the fairy but she stared stonily 
back.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Change me,\u8221\'94 she commanded in her childish treble.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 After
 a casual wave in her direction the old man turned away to study the withered corpse
 of the Princess.  A sheath of light surrounded the fairy which intensified and 
lengthened, and then faded away from the tall ivory-skinned woman in its place, 
her long raven hair falling across her sheer white gown.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Sa, Swanhilde,\u8221\'94 she said in icy tones far lower than the shrill treble
 of the fairy, crossing to look down at the dead Princess coldly.  \u8220\'93All
 those years treasuring your precious virginity despite the itching between your
 legs and now it\u8217\'92s gone to some eleven-year-old prick.  What a waste, eh
?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Never too late,\u8221\'94 the old man commented thoughtfully.   With considerable
 care he arranged the skeletal legs of the Princess as the fairy had done earlier
 for Edmund and then climbed between them.  The White Witch gave an ostentatiously
 unimpressed sigh and turned her back on him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Carefully
 the old man lay himself on the dry bones of the shrivelled corpse, fumbled unaided
 between his legs and, wincing, probed his way with his prick into the open, dry
, shrivelled vagina of the dead Princess. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Can\u8217\'92t say,\u8221\'94 he observed as he gingerly shafted her, grimacing
, \u8220\'93that this has much going for it.  In fact I\u8217\'92d say it\u8217\'92
s dead boring.\u8221\'94 The White Witch sniffed disdainfully as the old man dissolved
 in a cackling crow of laughter and, gleefully kissing the Princess\u8217\'92s skeletal
 grin, shot his semen into the dusty remains of her long-dead womb to join Edmund
\u8217\'92s.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f0\lang5129\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 9{\ulnone\fs24\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28          
The extensive formal gardens at Cair Paravel contained a maze, a large one of shady
 paths contained within high clipped hedges and including unexpected, cosy little
 glades and groves within which the lost traveller might dally and not count his
 failure to conquer the puzzle a loss.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Peter
, afraid it would beat him, never tackled the maze and claimed pressure of work 
as High King.  Susan toyed with it but was soon bored by her lack of success while
 Edmund gave it his full attention until it had lost all its secrets to him and 
then turned to something else. Only Lucy was never beaten by or bored with it, and
 she adopted the lovely little garden that lay at its heart at her personal realm
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Most
 fine afternoons she could be found there with her reading or sewing, but few did
 so for not only did they face actually having to find their way to her through 
the maze, it was well known throughout Cair Paravel that she did not welcome such
 intrusions into her privacy.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab So it
 as that Edmund found her, sitting reading on a blanket on the short soft grass 
on a warm Narnia afternoon.  As he sidled in through the one entrance to the little
 garden his twin sister\u8217\'92s hostile gaze met him and she grimaced.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Oh, Edmund.  Don\u8217\'92t be a pest,\u8221\'94 she groaned wearily.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Her 
brother ignored her, grinning.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Hello, Lucy,\u8221\'94 he smirked.  \u8220\'93Fancy finding you here.\u8221\'94
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Lucy
 stuck her tongue out at him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Go away, you little beast,\u8221\'94 she ordered.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Mmmmm,\u8221\'94 Edmund retorted, appearing to consider it. \u8220\'93I will
 in a minute.  Just wanted to ask you something.  Then I\u8217\'92ll go.\u8221\'94
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93What is it?\u8221\'94 his sister enquired cautiously.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93It\u8217\'92s just,\u8221\'94 he replied casually, \u8220\'93That I wondered
 what you think Susan would do if she knew Peter was having sexual intercourse with
 you?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab The 
boy grinned inwardly as he watched his sister go white.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Having what?\u8221\'94 she asked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93You know,\u8221\'94 Edmund whispered conspiratorially. \u8220\'93Sexual intercourse
. Shagging. Fucking. Screwing. Whatever you call it.  Peter\u8217\'92s penis in 
your vagina ejaculating into you.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab To his
 joy his sister looked as though she might faint.  He was well aware Susan would
 not be at all happy that Peter was having intercourse with his younger sister, 
in part because of her age and in part because Edmund assumed she wouldn\u8217\'92
t want to share her brother with anyone else, and Susan annoyed could be a formidable
 prospect. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Does she?\u8221\'94 the girl asked faintly.  Edmund was gratified that she hadn
\u8217\'92t tried to deny the accusation. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93I don\u8217\'92t think so,\u8221\'94 Edmund admitted.  \u8220\'93But I was wondering
 if I ought to tell her.  It doesn\u8217\'92t seem right, after all, to keep things
 from her, does it?  She is our big sister, after all.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Lucy
 was watching him closely.  \u8220\'93What do you want?\u8221\'94 she asked coldly
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Well.\u8221\'94  Even though it was the moment of the kill and the joy of it
 was burning in him, Edmund still felt a moment of awkwardness. \u8220\'93I don\u8217
\'92t suppose I\u8217\'92d want to tell Susan that Peter was shagging you if I was
 shagging you as well, would I?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab   As
 twins they had been competing for adult attention and approval since their birth
 and Lucy, because she was a girl, usually won with little effort. Edmund, desperate
 to win, had as a result developed a far more acute sense of what others, especially
 his sister,  were thinking.  Now behind her blank gaze he knew she was thinking
 hard - dare she call his bluff?  If he carried out his threat he would gain Peter
\u8217\'92s enmity as well as her own while Susan, even if glad of the news, would
 regard him as a snitch for passing it on, especially if Lucy told her of his threat
.  It would be a high price for him to pay, but she should know from past experience
 that he was quite capable of deciding to pay it.  If he did tell Susan, Lucy surely
  knew her elder sister would be furious, both with Peter for even thinking of having
 intercourse with his eleven-year-old sister, and with Lucy for allowing him to.  
Although not an iota of his twin sister\u8217\'92s expression changed Edmund knew
 to the moment when she knew he had beaten her, and that she would have to give 
in to him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Nevertheless
 she made him wait a few more seconds before, rising slowly to her feet and giving
 him a glare of pure hatred, she said, \u8220\'93All right, then, you pig.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Names
 didn\u8217\'92t hurt Edmund and he let his sister\u8217\'92s contempt bounce off
 him as he stood waiting for her, forcing her to make the first move.  After another
 few seconds she arranged the long Narnian skirts around her hips and, bending, 
gathered them up around her knees.  Then, kneeling down again on the blanket, she
 lifted the whole bundle about her waist and lay back, opening her legs and exposing
 her sex to Edmund.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Excited
 by her defiance and his power over her, Edmund stood over her, studying her privates
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab A deep
 crack ran between her legs out of which little rolls of flesh pouted as though 
there was not enough room inside the crack for them.  Just visible at the deepest
 part of the crack, where it suddenly ended and there was a small flat piece of 
skin between it and her other hole, was her vagina like a little gap.  Slowly Edmund
 undid the buttons on the front of his Narnian trousers,  pulled his penis into 
the open air and fondled it to make it grow as his sister watched, glaring at him
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Savouring
 the moment he knelt between his twin sister\u8217\'92s knees, put his right hand
 under her shoulder and, using it to support his weight, lowered himself onto her
, using his left hand to position his penis in her crack.  Three times he pressed
 forward and met only the resistance of her groin but on the fourth attempt his 
penis skidded downwards a fraction of an inch and then slid forward into the girl
\u8217\'92s warm, moist embrace.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Little
 shudders of delight rippled through him as he eased his penis into his sister until
 his groin pressed against hers and he could feel the whole length of his organ 
buried in her soft flesh.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Mmmmm,\u8221\'94 he gave a groan of pleasure.  \u8220\'93That feels nice,\u8221
\'94 he told Lucy.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Pig,\u8217\'92 she sneered.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Slowly
, wanting to make the moment last as long as possible, he began shafting her.  Placing
 his left hand under her other shoulder to support his weight he was able to lift
 his body away from his sister\u8217\'92s and look between them at his penis dipping
 in and out of her.  Lucy lay unmoving, scowling at him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab In response
 to the friction and soft pressure of his twin\u8217\'92s vagina around his penis
 he felt it growing and swelling within her, and worked to penetrate as deeply into
 her as possible by changing the angle at which he ran into her.  Even as part of
 his mind felt like swooning to the delightful sensations flooding his body from
 his penis another part of it stood back and studied what he was doing, analysing
 the sensations and seeking to improve them.  Inside the base of his penis he felt
 the snake of his semen uncoil and prepare to spit itself into her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Madam?\u8221\'94 The enquiring voice jolted him, for he had not heard anyone
 approach.  He felt Lucy beneath him jump, too, and her vagina gave his penis a 
sudden, delightful squeeze at her shock. Turning his head and jamming his thighs
 against his sister\u8217\'92s he saw framed in the rose-covered arch around the
 entrance to the grove her centaur, Cory. Seeing the centaur standing looking at
 him bare-buttocked between his sister\u8217\'92s knees with barely-concealed horror
 and distain, Edmund suddenly felt two-inches tall and his intense dislike for the
 half-man, half-horse creatures deepened.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Cory. Yes?\u8221\'94 Lucy asked, relaxing again beneath Edmund.  \u8220\'93Is
 there something?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Er, no madam.\u8221\'94  The creature seemed disconcerted.  \u8220\'93I heard
 voices and wondered if all was well.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Everything\u8217\'92s fine, Cory,\u8221\'94 Lucy said evenly.  \u8220\'93King
 Edmund and I are trying to make a baby.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Yes, madam,\u8221\'94 the man part of the centaur said.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93I\u8217\'92d be grateful if you kept this to yourself, Cory,\u8221\'94 Lucy 
added. \u8220\'93We don\u8217\'92t want anyone to know.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Yes, madam.\u8221\'94  The horse part of the centaur backed out of the entrance
 and he was gone.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Lucy,\u8221\'94 Edmund breathed in admiration.  \u8220\'93You were great.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Pig,\u8217\'92 Lucy told him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab Annoyed
 at himself, his sister, centaurs and the world in general Edmund shafted Lucy violently
, trying to evoke some response from her but she lay beneath him passive and unmoving
 until his semen squirted into her with a distinct lack of pleasure. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Finished?\u8221\'94 she asked coldly once he had stopped thrusting into her.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93For now,\u8221\'94 he told her.  Angrily he pulled his sticky penis out of her
 vagina, stood up and  put it back in his trousers.  Lucy, too, stood and rearranged
 her skirts.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93If you tell Susan now, I\u8217\'92ll tell her that you\u8217\'92ve done it to
 me too,\u8221\'94 she told him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab It was
, he recognised, stalemate, but in his trousers his penis stirred and wanted to 
be back inside his sister again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\tab\u8220
\'93Maybe,\u8221\'94 he responded.  \u8220\'93We\u8217\'92ll see.\u8221\'94  Leaving
 her to ponder that he turned and strode manfully out of the garden.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\ul\f0\lang5129\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 10\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\qj\sl0\slmult0{\ul\f0\lang5129\fs32\kerning28\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Fourteen
-years-old and High Queen of Narnia, Susan sat back in the seat of her coach, rested
 her head against the cushions to absorb some of the jolting as it rattled along
 causeway which connected Cair Paravel on its little island to the rest of Narnia
, closed her eyes and let the smile fade from her face.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 There
 were still little clusters of her subjects by the roadside, delighted to see her
 and waving their hands or hooves or paws, but she was too weary to care anymore
.  She had smiled and waved to the crowds lining the streets of the castle as was
 expected of her and that was enough.  For Heaven\u8217\'92s sake, she was only 
going to be gone for four days!\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 shouldn\u8217\'92t be going at all, of course.  Normally Peter as High King would
 have responded to the request from the little community of fishergnomes on the 
shore of the Glasswater inlet for a Royal blessing on the new boat they were preparing
 to launch, but when she had volunteered to go a surprised Peter had acceded very
 readily, and she suspected he was not the only one glad to have her out of the 
castle, if only for a few days.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 And
 she had needed a break herself, hoping for a chance to regain some of her composure
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
had all begun to go wrong the day of the incident with Lucy and the dress the fairy
 Peaseblossom had made for her.  In truth Susan had some sympathy with her sister
 as they had both sweltered in the heavy, hot woollen Narnian clothes in the warm
 airless days, but Lucy\u8217\'92s failure to recognise her responsibilities as 
a Queen had annoyed Susan far more than she knew it justified and she recognised
 that she had been unnecessarily heavy handed in dealing with her little sister, 
although Lucy had recovered her good spirits far more quickly than Susan had expected
.  In fact, the following day at breakfast the child had positively bubbled.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Later
 that day Susan had met Peter in the little turret room, the most private place 
in Cair Caravel, where they purportedly discussed matters of great secrecy but where
 in fact she kept her promise to masturbate him once a week.  These meetings had
 always been awkward and uncomfortable but even as she arrived she had seen that
 her brother was unusually tense and ill-at-ease.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
hadn\u8217\'92t helped that she had been sick of her flowers, as the Bible picturesquely
 put it.  Her menses were settling into regularity but were at the best uncomfortable
 with the stomach cramps her mother had warned her of, and the pads of some sort
 of moss the royal physician, a studious old owl, had given her to wear between 
her legs to absorb the accursed tickle of blood from her cunt chafed her cruelly
 and were sometimes barely adequate if her royal duties prevented her from changing
 them regularly.  They were also accompanied by bouts of foul temper she could do
 nothing to control, and it had been one such bout which poor little Lucy had taken
 the brunt of over the dress.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 had been undergoing another when she had entered the little turret room to find
 Peter already there, as he usually was.  Avoiding her eyes he had said without 
preamble, \u8220\'93Sue, I\u8217\'92ve decided this has got to stop.  I really appreciate
 you being willing to do it to me when I know you don\u8217\'92t want to, and it
 has been wonderful for me.  But I\u8217\'92m the High King and your brother, and
 it isn\u8217\'92t right that you should do it to me, either as a Queen or a sister
.  So I\u8217\'92ve decided.\u8221\'94  And he had walked out of the room, leaving
 her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 had been devastated, and blood-boilingly furious.  Devastated that he should just
 stop it like that, and furious that he should just make a bald declaration about
 it and walk out on her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 For
 in fact it had become the highlight of her week.  She adored her brother\u8217\'92
s penis.  Feeling the strength and life of it responding to her touch and throbbing
 in her hands was a sensation she re-lived over and over, and longed to experience
 almost every time she saw her big brother acting the King.  She had learned how
 to play his prick and by extension the boy - nearly a young man - like a musical
 instrument, knew how to stroke the shaft and gently squeeze the soft bulging head
, when to tickle his balls in their bag and when to caress the tiny lips at its 
tip.  When she first took it up, already stiffening and waking in anticipation and
 response to the mere sight of her, she thrilled to the power she had to tease it
 into eager rigidity and she felt a fierce pride as she could chart the progress
 of his ejaculation by registering the play of the muscles in her brother\u8217\'92
s thighs between which she knelt, the catch and tension in his breathing, the melt
 and run of his expression and the sparkle of light in his eyes.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 And
 the moment of his ejaculation itself awed her as, in response to her skill, his
 prick pulsed like a living heart and something which was neither Peter\u8217\'92
s prick nor Peter himself but something huge and ancient of which they were but 
tiny parts, squirted his hot white liquid seed  into the air between them with such
 powerful urgency, and which she knew yearned to squirt them with the life they 
contained into her, if only she were to allow it.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Which
 of course she couldn\u8217\'92t.  She loved and worshipped her brother\u8217\'92
s penis but couldn\u8217\'92t allow him to see the merest hint of it.  She longed
 to kiss it yet could imagine how horrified and disgusted Peter would be to know
 he had a sister who could do such a thing.  She yearned to feel it pulsing against
 her own throbbing heart and wrap it in the soft cradle of her still-developing 
breasts. She ached to rise, step forward over his lap and take it into her vagina
 where it was meant to be, and to feel his hot seed pumping into her own cradle 
of life not because she wanted a child, because she didn\u8217\'92t, but because
 every fibre of her body sighed for the satisfaction the act would bring.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Kneeling
 between her brother\u8217\'92s knees, her hands clasped together in front of her
 around his prick, had become as intensely a religious moment for her as she could
 ever have experienced on her knees praying in any church, and he had ripped it 
from her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Not
 that she could do anything about it, of course.  In the face of her body\u8217\'92
s powerful urges she had been forced to adopt such rigid control that her actions
 had become almost like those of an automaton and she had treated the thing in her
 hands almost mechanically.  Sometimes she had become aware of the expression her
 face had taken on, a grimace of dismay at the strength of the desires she was trying
 to so hard to disown, a look of horror as she recognised the warm glow waking in
 her body as it responded to the sight and feel of her brother\u8217\'92s prick, 
the snarl as she fought down the whispers of temptation tickling at her mind.  She
 had little doubt her brother believed she handled him with the greatest of reluctance
 and that was certainly what she wanted him to believe, with the result that she
 could hardly rush after him and beg him to let her worship his prick again.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 But
 that he should just make a high-handed declaration of the fact and walk out on 
her.....  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Had
 there been anything breakable in the little round room with the narrow slitted 
windows she would have broken it, and probably jumped up and down in the shards.  
She wanted to hammer her fists against the solid stone of the walls.  If the table
 which Peter usually sat on for her had not been too heavy for her to lift she would
 have hurled it across the room.  She wanted to throw back her head and scream at
 the top of her voice, except that would have had a posse of heavily armed dwarves
 clattering frantically up the spiral staircase to her rescue - the spiral was too
 tight and narrow for Belrath her Centaur to climb so he had insisted on the dwarves
 as a back-up.  She wanted to stamp her foot as she had so often as a little girl
, but she hadn\u8217\'92t been able to do anything except stand in the middle of
 the empty chamber steaming and trembling like a volcano about to erupt.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
hadn\u8217\'92t helped that she had understood what Peter had done and why he had
 done it that way.  They both knew it had to be wrong for a sister to touch  her
 brother\u8217\'92s penis, let alone fondle it to the point of making his seed of
 copulation issue from it.  She now knew that the Bible declared it unclean for 
any woman to do it, let alone a sister. After her embarrassment the previous evening
 when she had been shocked to discover that the Bible declared her periods were 
unclean even though there wasn\u8217\'92t a damn thing she could do about them, 
she had read ahead a little and found out that the Bible was dead against uncovering
 the nakedness of near kindred.  True it didn\u8217\'92t say anywhere that she shouldn
\u8217\'92t uncover her brother\u8217\'92s nakedness but that was surely only because
 the rules appeared written entirely from the male point of view - presumably because
 the Bible took it for granted that women wouldn\u8217\'92t want to uncover anyone
\u8217\'92s nakedness apart from their husband\u8217\'92s anyway.  Uncovering a 
sister\u8217\'92s nakedness was certainly on the list as something a man shouldn
\u8217\'92t do and was something she and Peter had already done, which was worrying
.  What, she wondered, would Aslan say if he knew what they had done?  And, being
 Aslan, how could he not know?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 So 
of course Peter was dead right to have stopped it, both because he believed she 
didn\u8217\'92t want to do it and because they shouldn\u8217\'92t have been doing
 it in the first place.  Knowing that she was still prepared to do it for his sake
 the decision obviously fell to him to stop it and he had taken it, and Susan even
 honoured her brother for it.  And he had done it quickly and walked out presumably
 so that she would not see how much he regretted it, and perhaps to escape the temptation
 to change his mind.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh Peter,\u8221\'94 she had said with a sigh and then, after cramming her fury
 with difficulty back into a bottle inside her, she had been able to eventually 
follow him down the stairs.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 But
 the bottle of boiling anger had still been there, with occasional leaks which resulted
 in her biting the heads off innocent servants and some sheer bloody-minded orders
 from her which had resulted in a deal of unnecessary hard labour by many in scrubbing
 already spotless hallways and stairways, re-stitching practically perfect hems 
or tapestries, re-counting and re-sorting huge amounts of fruit and vegetables in
 the castle\u8217\'92s store-rooms and re-washing, pressing, folding and packing
 of mountains of linen.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Worst
 of all the itch was back between her legs and becoming unbearable.  Even with her
 flowers still on her she had been sorely tempted in her bed that night to take 
one of the candle-shaped everlights and shag herself senseless with it.  The desire
 to do it had never been far from her but since the earliest manifestations of it
, when to her eternal shame she had even gone so far as to get her little sister
 to do it to her, she had mostly been able to resist it.  Now, though, she was haunted
 by the memory of the dolphin\u8217\'92s prick inside her and how glorious that 
had felt, and the itch had become so much harder to ignore.  On that first night
 it had only been the fact that her cunt was already sore and bloody with her flowers
 that had stopped her, and if she had been able to crush the urges on the five ensuing
 nights it had only been at the cost of a great deal of sleep which had further 
added to her already short fuse.  Wrapping her hand around an everlight, which felt
 so like the shaft of her brother\u8217\'92s penis, sent shivers of delight and 
anticipation through her while even in her wide-windowed coach, which had to be 
one of the most public places in Narnia and surrounded by the males of the sizeable
 escort Peter had given her, she badly wanted to slip her hand beneath her skirts
 and know the delights that would follow if she were to scratch the itch.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 slumped miserably in the seat of her swaying vehicle, appalled at the distance 
she had sunk.  Even the Bible assumed women didn\u8217\'92t have the urges she had
, to play with their brother\u8217\'92s pricks and revel in their seed of copulation
.  She had been fucked by a dolphin and instead of being disgusted, ashamed and 
horrified that the penis of an animal had been in her vagina she remembered the 
sensation with excitement and pleasure, and often wished it could happen again.  
She was unnatural, a slut, a tart, growing up into a woman of the worst kind and
 there seemed to be nothing she could do about it.  Yet she was also High Queen 
of Narnia and as such had to be as pure and chaste as Good Queen Bess, the Virgin
 Queen.  It was an impossible dichotomy and one day Aslan would re-appear and look
 into her eyes and know what the little girl he had placed on the Throne of Narnia
 had become. \tab\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Kingsbridge
 had been built where the South Road crossed the Great River at the order of a former
 King of Narnia long ago, and represented a considerable technical achievement by
 the dwarfish masons who had done the job.  Quite how considerable was something
 few were aware of and, as High Queen Lucy\u8217\'92s coach clattered over the long
, slender arch, the girl within it was not one of them.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 town of Kingsbridge had begun as the tented camp of the dwarves\u8217\'92 work-
gangs and had transmuted into a permanent settlement mainly to service the inn which
 itself provided overnight accommodation to the steady stream of Nanians with business
 at Cair Paravel whenever the country had monarchs in residence.  It also serviced
 the garrison which existed to guard the bridge in the event any invasion by envious
 countries to the South, and the small palace which existed purely as an overnight
 stop for Narnian Kings and Queens should they have occasion to take to the road
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Small
 as a description of the palace was relative for the establishment adjoining the
 garrison was large enough to house not only the entire garrison but the whole town
 as well even if it was only used a few times a year, and only then if Narnia had
 Sons of Adam and/or Daughters of Eve on its Throne.  Susan, though, saw little 
of it as, wrapped in her miserable self-examination, she allowed herself to be guided
 from the stationary coach to a couch in a day-room for a rest after her travels
, led to a table to nibble at the contents of at least twenty different dishes without
 tasting any of it, directed to a dressing-room to be disrobed, manoeuvred into 
a washroom to be sponged down, steered into a bedroom and as dusk fell tucked up
 in bed.  There, alone at last, she felt with despair her hand crawl across her 
thigh and between her legs as though it had a mind of its own, and then surrendered
 helplessly to the fierce, tingling pleasures which wracked her body as her fingertip
 sorted through the wet folds of hot flesh, located the little button which  nestled
 within them and began teasing it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
took a while to exhaust her needs as she worked herself up to orgasm after orgasm
 with her fingers at her clit, or burrowed two of three inside her cunt.  Indeed
, each orgasm was like throwing petrol on a fire as the nerve-burning cataclysm 
shook her and yet left the tingling, urgent need to scratch the itch even stronger
.  When her fingers no-longer sufficed she grabbed an everlight from a bedside table
 and writhed naked on the bed jamming it up and down in her cunt as yet more orgasms
 rocked her, each one demanding another, stronger one.  The bedposts terminated 
in a vertical knob so similar in length and width to Peter\u8217\'92s prick that
 she cast away the everlight and straddled one, humping up and down on it awkwardly
 with her eyes tight shut as she imagined it was indeed her brother\u8217\'92s proud
 prick plumbing her insides.  The position, though, was too awkward to maintain 
for long so she lifted herself off it after just one orgasm that had her cunt walls
 clutching and squeezing the hard wood, and sought around the room for something
 else to sate the itch inside her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 royal bedrooms all had fireplaces although in the summer heat the one in her room
 was not lit.  Wood and kindling stood in the hearth, though, just in case the royal
 fancy should want a fire.  Each stick was, of course, carefully chosen for perfection
 of its length and circumference, and then brushed and polished to ensure that no
 dust, dirt or insects should sully the royal chamber.  Some of the sticks were 
6-inches in diameter for a steady, long-burning fire but amongst them were some 
thinner ones for a quick, fast fire and it was one of these an inch in diameter 
and smooth-barked, that Susan seized and fed into her cunt to feed the fire there
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
was about ten inches-inches long yet she had barely enough to hang onto with her
 fingers when, with its tip uncomfortably deep inside her, one last cataclysmic 
orgasm rocked her to leave her panting exhausted, weak and nerveless on the carpet
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 At 
the same moment, up the road in Cair Paravel, her little sister was also shuddering
 and gasping with orgasm as her vagina sucked and squeezed at her big brother\u8217
\'92s prick shafting it,  her tiny breasts crushed against his chest, her fingernails
 clawed at his back and her teeth gnawed at his shoulder.  Lucy,  though, had no
 doubts about her orgasms for they had been blessed by Aslan himself, she had seen
 her own mother enjoying one, and she was being given them by her much-loved big
 brother, who surely could do no wrong.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 had never heard the word orgasm, or climax, or even \u8216\'91come\u8217\'92 in
 that context.  The very brief introduction she had been given by her mother, together
 with the restrained, unemotional and very \u8216\'91English\u8217\'92 relationship
 she had witnessed between her mother and father, had left her with the firm belief
 that the sex act was performed clinically and unemotionally by husband and wife
 when they desired a child.  The powerful urges of her body and its animal betrayal
 of her desire to be a well-brought-up young lady that her mother could be proud
 of, let alone High Queen of Narnia, dismayed and disgusted her.  Her arm and wrist
 ached from rubbing her clit or working things in her cunt.  Her fingers were slimy
 with her vaginal mucus and the air seemed thick with its pungent smell.  Her still
-tingling fanny felt sore from all the rubbing she had given it and her thighs were
 wet and slick with her juices.  In the sated aftermath of multiple orgasms she 
felt ashamed and contemptuous of what she had just done.  Sweaty and greasy she 
needed a wash, but with a dozen servants between her and her washroom it was for
 the moment out of the question.  Wearily she slipped the piece of firewood from
 her cunt and replaced it on its pile, pulled herself across the floor to her bed
, dragged herself onto it,  curled naked on top of the soft woollen blankets and
 slowly slipped into sleep.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 And
 into a nightmare in which she couldn\u8217\'92t move or breath but was being carried
 along in a flood of black water.  She was struggling uselessly, her lungs straining
 for air she couldn\u8217\'92t draw in, the blood hammering in her ears and bright
 spots dancing in the darkness before her eyes.  Worst of all, though, was the knowledge
 in her mind that it was just a nightmare and if she could only wake up, only wake
 up....   Then it became far worse as she reluctantly realised she was already awake
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was trussed tight in her bedding and being carried under someone\u8217\'92s arm
, a someone who hand their other hand clamped tightly over her mouth and nose.  
Desperate to breath she wriggled and tried to escape the grip but it was held effortlessly
.  A drowning darkness gathered inside her skull and she felt herself go limp as
 her strength drained away but then, on a gust of stinking breath, a voice breathed
 in her ear.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Scream and you die, Daughter of Eve,\u8221\'94 it said.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 nodded to show that she understood and the grip eased just sufficiently for her
 to suck in a lungful of cold, moist air which stank of rancid animal.  As mind 
cleared with the infusion of new oxygen she gathered her wits.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 creature carrying her was humanoid for it was upright and had a large five-fingered
 hand.  It was also immensely strong as it was moving at a fast walk and making 
nothing of her weight. That narrowed the field of possible identities for her kidnapper
 considerably.  The hard-skinned hand still across her nose and mouth, now lax enough
 that she could breath with difficulty, was not large enough for a giant\u8217\'92
s but the arm around her body was too long for any dwarf.  Only one possibility 
seemed to fit the bill, though if she was right it was both hard to believe and 
very bad news indeed.   The most likely identity for her abductor was Troll.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 High
 Queen Susan had never seen a troll.  Few Nanians had, and lived to tell the tale
.  The great cave systems they inhabited lay far to the north-west beyond the Lantern
 Waste and the Wild Lands to the North, and while these underlay Narnia itself in
 parts there had never been any question of its kings and Queens claiming any allegiance
 from the trolls that lived there.  According to Peter\u8217\'92s advisors the trolls
 were thought to have \u8216\'91intercourse\u8217\'92 with the White Witch but this
, both Peter and Susan had already learned, was a word often used by important people
, or people who thought they were important, to mean no more than that people talked
 to each other diplomatically and Susan had assumed that was its meaning here.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 There
 had certainly been no question of either Peter or Susan, as King or Queen of Narnia
, having intercourse with the trolls because, their advisors pointed out, a previous
 King had ignored advice and taken an army into the trolls caves to subdue them 
and neither had been heard of again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Fortunately
 the trolls had not seemed to offer much of a threat, either.  Their homes were 
the dark, cramped caves and tunnels underground and in any kind of daylight they
 were, like moles, virtually blind.  Also, the absence of any kind of roof or ceiling
 above them was said to instil a kind of paralysing terror into them, which together
 meant that they rarely left their caves and when they did it was only at night, 
going no further than they could while allowing themselves time to return before
 daybreak.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Furthermore
 the trolls were organised in Clans which were at permanent war with each other,  
led by whichever Troll fighter was the strongest at that moment.  In consequence
 a Troll Clan was not only being thinned out by constant raids on or by their neighbours
, each Troll Clan Chief spent most of his time keeping a careful eye on his own 
relations and killing off any that might appear to be becoming a threat.  Susan 
had never heard of any troll activity in eastern Narnia before and no potential 
danger from them in her journey to the Glasswater had been mentioned.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Yet
 they were there.  In a dim light her eyes were only just becoming accustomed to
 she could see the walls and ceiling of a low, narrow tunnel along which she was
 being carried.  She could just make out at least one broad back in front of her
 and from the scuffle of feet and hissing breathing which she could hear she could
 tell there were several more.  As the last dregs of sleep fled from her she fully
 realised what had happened and as a wave of hot terror swept through her she felt
 a gush of hot urine pour from her across her thighs and soak into the blankets 
swaddling her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 tunnel suddenly sloped upwards steeply and then Susan felt fresh air and open space
 around her and heard the quiet flow of water.  Without warning she was dropped 
a few feet into what she recognised immediately as a small boat for she could feel
 its unsteady movements as her kidnappers piled awkwardly into it, feel the sharp
, curving edges of its ribs through her cocoon and hear the thumps and knocks of
 flesh and metal on hollow wood.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Her
 captor took what had to be the bow thwart, put a foot in a metal-studded boot on
 Susan\u8217\'92s neck and pressed her face into the puddle of water sloshing about
 in the bottom of the boat.  Then he leaned down and his warm, stinking breath coated
 her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Ragnok like fuck you alive,\u8221\'94 the troll breathed in her ear.  \u8220
\'93But he fuck you dead if he must.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 nodded dumbly to show that she understood the warning while her mind registered
 the fact that despite everything her cunt had tingled with eager excitement at 
the promise of a fuck, even by a troll.  She was appalled and disgusted at herself
, yet if all they were going to do was fuck her there was perhaps some hope still
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 boat was pushed away from the bank and after some confusion during which the boat
 rocked dangerously, adrift on the current, some order was restored, oars began 
dipping into the water and the boat began making way.  Clearly they were on the 
Great River and equally clearly the trolls were not used to handling boats, yet 
they were immensely strong and the boat leapt forward with each grunting swing of
 the rowers.  As her mind was cleared by the cold of the water in the bottom of 
the boat, mixed with the frequent cascades of spray swept over her by a mistimed
 stroke from one of her captors, Susan tried to conquer the fear in her mind and
 think.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Kingsbridge
 was at the bottom of a wide loop made by the Great River as it passed through the
 forests around Cair Paravel.  To go downstream was to go east, even further from
 the realm of the trolls far away in the north-west until eventually the river emptied
 into the sea right beside the Great Castle itself on its causewayed island, which
 made it unlikely that they would go that way.  To go upstream, though, was to row
 against the current up the other arm of the river\u8217\'92s loop, which was also
 going back roughly in the direction of Cair Paravel, to pass it in some twenty-
five miles or so by a mere eight miles.  Beyond that again was the town of Beruna
 with its wide ford across the river, and they could not hope to get that far in
 just one night.  Surely in the morning, though, she would be missed, the secret
 passage which must exist to her room found and the fact she was taken away by boat
 discovered, after which every inch of the river would be under observation day 
and night.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Come
 dawn her captors would have to lay up somewhere for the day only a few miles from
 Cair Caravel, with a frantic Peter mobilising every animal in Narnia in the search
 for her.  And if all they did to her was fuck her\u8230\'85..\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 sky was overcast, hiding the stars, and the darkness was intense although there
 was clearly enough light for her abductors.  Clinging to her thoughts without wanting
 to think too much, for it was obvious that her problems would be far from over 
even if Peter did manage to track her down, she shivered in her wet wrappings and
 clung desperately to each long minute even as she longed for the dawn with whatever
 it might bring.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28  A 
long time later the bow of the boat rose and dipped unexpectedly, causing one of
 the rowers to miss a stroke.  A thick spray of water from his oar slapped across
 Susan\u8217\'92s guard and dripped onto Susan herself.  The troll snarled a furious
 oath in response but Susan barely heard it for, on her tongue as the spray trickled
 off her face, she tasted salt and the bow began to lift again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 sea.  She had been wrong.  Rowing hard with the current\u8217\'92s help they had
 made the mouth of the Great River before dawn and Cair Paravel could only be half
-a-mile away across the water.  A dozy, undisturbed Cair Paravel for, far behind
 them in Kingsbridge, she would not even have been missed yet.  Almost within shouting
 distance Peter was lying peacefully asleep in his bed, unaware of her terror.  
Susan whimpered.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 (In
 fact Peter was asleep in Lucy\u8217\'92s bed, his naked little sister curled spoon
-like against him, his sticky, satisfied penis burrowed between her warm buttocks
, her little puddings of breasts pressing into the palms of his hands as she breathed
 contentedly, his sperm still wriggling its way up his little sister\u8216\'91s 
uterus in a frantic race to find an egg which was not yet there.)\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 troll\u8217\'92s boot ground against her neck again, warningly.  Susan froze.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 felt the motion of the boat change, rolling as it turned to follow the shore towards
 the north and throwing the rowers into confusion.  Yet there was a new urgency 
about them, too, and Susan understood as she saw over the gunwale above her head
 the first grey tint soak into the clouds.  The trolls had to find cover soon, and
 if they failed to make the destination they were patently trying for it would be
 a temporary, unprepared cover only a few miles from Cair Paravel.  The coast at
 any time, and so close to the castle at this time, was not somewhere one would  
first look for trolls but Peter would have every inch of Narnia searched, likely
 or not, she was sure.  Yet if they were found it would only take a second for a
 troll to slit her throat.  Better that, perhaps, than what might happen to her 
if she was not rescued.  But if they were only going to fuck her\u8230\'85..\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 A fierce
 argument broke out amongst the trolls in the boat with the sound of some blows 
but then her guard, who seemed to be in charge, gave an order in trolloc in a voice
 so savage that all argument instantly ceased, the rowing began again even more 
furiously and Susan\u8217\'92s blood went cold with apprehension.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 grey light in the clouds slowly strengthened and the trolls obviously became more
 uneasy, the rowing more furious even as the breath began tearing in their throats
 and the grunts as they dragged at the oars even more bone-wrenchingly weary.  Soon
 the sun itself would peep above the eastern horizon, and if the cloud cover did
 not extend that far out to sea, as it often didn\u8217\'92t, its golden light would
 pour like a tidal wave across the sea and roll over the boat.  Would, as rumour
 had it, the trolls then turn to something almost like stone?  Even if it only cowed
, blinded and slowed them up a little she might, surely, have a better chance of
 slipping over the side and swimming for the shore.  Provided it was not too far
 away, for she knew she was not a good swimmer.  Perhaps the mermaid and the dolph
in were nearby, and they could carry her to the shore.  Oh please, Aslan. Let it
 be.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 she heard the slap of waves among rocks and a tall cliff loomed out of the greying
 darkness ahead of the boat.  Her guard growled directions to the rowers in trolloc
 and a sudden surge of a wave carried the boat at the sheer rock wall and then through
 it into a low, deep sea cave.  The noise of shifting water boomed about her, darkness
 enveloped her again, the rowers relaxed and laughed their relief and Susan wept
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 With
 a shocking, bone-jarring crash a wave-surge swept the boat against a rock.  Wooden
 planks and ribs cracked and splintered.  Then the boat lurched again as the retreating
 wave dragged it backwards and it tilted alarmingly.  Powerful arms scooped Susan
 up and then threw her effortlessly into air.  As she screamed in shock and fright
 she caught sight of the boat being sucked away from a rock ledge in a welter of
 black water and white foam, with six trolls desperately scrambling over one another
 for the safety of the ledge on which a small crowd of trolls were gathered watching
, some of them holding aloft what were clearly everlights .\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 had been thrown towards the crowd and eager hands caught her, still trussed in 
the wrapped blankets and sheets from her bed in far away Kingsbridge.  For a moment
 she was pulled in several directions at once as a fight developed for and over 
her, and she was almost relieved when her original captor, who had clearly made 
the leap to safety onto the ledge from the sinking boat, used his fists and elbows
 mercilessly to recover her.  He was clearly a troll of some importance for, apart
 from some snarling and bristling in return, none of the others seriously stood 
up to him.  Snarling defiance in all directions he tucked Susan under his arm like
 a puppy and turned with the rest to watch the end of the boat.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Several
 of the others of its crew had obviously made the ledge and one, watched but totally
 unaided by the others, was dragging itself out of the water onto the rock.  One
, though, was still in the rapidly sinking boat amid the swirling, sucking eddies
 as the sea surged in and out of the cave.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 A fresh
 wave threw the boat against rocks edging the ledge with a splintering crash and
 the troll made a desperate leap for safety.  He fell just short.  For a moment 
his huge, stubby, hairy-backed fingers scrabbled uselessly on the wet, sea-smoothed
 surface of the ledge at the feet of a watching troll, a troll who could easily 
have reached down and seized his wrists but didn\u8217\'92t, and then the retreating
 sea sucked him away into a maelstrom of foaming water churning around the rock 
fangs, to a roar of delighted laughter from the interested spectators.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
appeared once more, clearly unable to swim and flailing frantically at the water
 to the hoots and catcalls from his audience.  At the back of the ledge Susan saw
 there was a heap of timber, broken ship\u8217\'92s spars and tangled cordage which
 had obviously been swept into the cave and accumulated there over time, but no 
effort was made to utilise any of it to help the struggling troll.  Then a powerful
 backwash sucked him effortlessly between two evil-looking fangs of rock and he 
disappeared from sight.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 crowd cheered delightedly and then waited hopefully for several minutes but he 
did not reappear.  Eventually, with a disappointed grunt, the troll carrying Susan
 barked an order.  Still talking happily amongst itself the little crowd parted 
for him and he strode into a small cave in the rock wall at the back of the ledge
 which developed into a natural shaft or flue leading steeply upwards and away from
 the sea.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 mob of trolls, perhaps twenty strong, followed and Susan, jolting uncomfortably
 in the clasp of her captor\u8217\'92s arm felt a change come over them.  The hilarity
 caused by their colleague\u8217\'92s drowning died away to be replaced by a murmuring
 and whispering, and a barely restrained excited anticipation which she knew she
 had felt before.  Then it had been among the loathsome hoards making up the White
 Witch\u8217\'92s army as they waited eagerly for the surrender and execution of
 the Great Lion Aslan in place of her brother Edmund.  Now, she knew, it was an 
excited anticipation she was at the centre of.  In another flood of terror she wet
 herself again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 passage twisted and squeezed through the living rock and the sea-surges among the
 rocks of the cave below faded to become a distant whisper in the still air of the
 tunnel.  Then, through what was no wider than a crack in a rock wall, the troll
 carrying her stepped into a wide cave which Susan knew was their destination.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
was a raw, natural cave with rugged mounds of rock protruding from a rough floor
 and dark bays or further caves around its periphery. In places sheer rough columns
 rose from the floor into the shadows cloaking the roof of the cave above and in
 others jagged spears of rock rose from the floor seeking to meet similar pointed
 daggers growing down from the roof.  Stalagmites and stalactites, Susan\u8217\'92
s terror-numbed mind informed her although she could not remember which was which
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 A few
 everlights held thick shadows at bay at a odd points in the room, but most of the
 light in the cave was coming from a small camp-fire burning in a ring of stones
 before a low, rough hump of rock sticking out of the floor nearly at the centre
 of the cave.  A crevice roughly in the shape of a seat had  been made by nature
 or hacked by troll into one side of the hump and in this sat carelessly what was
 clearly the chief of the trolls.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 As 
they approached the fire it gave Susan the most light she had yet seen her captors
 by, and it was not a pleasant sight.  The creatures were no taller than the average
 man which made them only a head taller than the fourteen-year-old Queen, but despite
 this they were frighteningly massive.  It was like looking at a giant in one of
 those trick mirrors at a fair-ground which makes a human look like a dwarf.  Their
 legs were shorter than Susan\u8217\'92s yet thick and immensely strong.  Their 
torsos were wide and like a giant\u8217\'92s squashed into half its usual height
 but with all its muscle and bone.  Their shoulders were broad and looked as if 
they could support a mountain while their arms, long as a man\u8217\'92s, were easily
 twice as thick and rippled with strength, ending in broad, flat, stubby-fingered
 hands like a huge mole\u8217\'92s.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 They
 appeared to have no neck at all, and their heads were like great, round boulders
 with faces roughly chiselled by a child.  Their mouths were thin, cruel slits below
 broad, flattened noses and their little piggy eyes in which hatred and cruelty 
glittered, were sunk at the bottom of deep pits below craggy, overhanging brows.  
Long hanks of unkempt hair straggled from their heads over their shoulders and down
 their backs.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 They
 were all barefoot and dressed uniformly in sleeveless leather vests which left 
their chests bare, and a kind of leather kilt to their knees.  A few had leather
 belts in which were tucked knives or swords, and perhaps had a shield or buckler
 on their backs, some carried long spears with rusty, jagged heads but most bore
 only a crude club if they carried any weapon at all.  Perhaps twenty had accompanied
 Susan and her captor on the journey from the sea-cave and as many again were emerging
 from the shadows around the periphery of the cave, drawn by her arrival.  She saw
 no females among them.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Suddenly
 her captor shifted his grip on her and she spilled out of her wrappings to sprawl
 naked on the hard stone in front of the fire and the chieftain.  Leisurely he rose
 from his seat and looked down at Susan.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
was clearly the chief of the trolls as he was bigger and uglier than any of the 
others.  At some time a slash with a blade had caught him across the face leaving
 a deep gouge in his overhanging brow, smashing an eye and slicing off a lobe of
 his nose so that he breathed with a menacing whistle through a raw-edged hole in
 his face.  His one good eye, though, glared with malice and intelligent cruelty
.  He was wearing the same jerkin and kilt as the others but an open-fronted ring
 of twisted gold lay around his neck from which hung a cape of what Susan thought
 first was a strange kind of black grass, but which she realised as he stood over
 her was in fact the hair of many trolls still hanging from the skin of their scalps
 which had been crudely stitched together to lay across his shoulders.  Susan could
 not help imagining her own short but far finer dark hair laying among it, and moaned
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93You Daughter of Eve?\u8221\'94 the chieftain grunted.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 As 
she was lying naked on the ground in front of him there didn\u8217\'92t seem much
 point in Susan denying it, though it was probable the troll had never seen a human
 before and could therefore quite genuinely not know what one looked like.  Considering
 the question she decided that she might be worse off if they thought she wasn\u8217
\'92t what they wanted than if she was.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes,\u8221\'94 she squeaked, disappointing herself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
  stump of the troll\u8217\'92s wrecked nose wrinkled in distaste.  \u8220\'93You
 scrawny,\u8221\'94 he observed.  With a bare, hairy foot he roughly prised Susan
\u8217\'92s legs apart, spread them wide and regarded her genitals.  \u8220\'93And
 small,\u8221\'94 he added.   \u8220\'93Why Aslan fuck you?\u8221\'94 he asked, 
clearly puzzled.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93He doesn\u8217\'92t,\u8221\'94  Susan exclaimed, startled almost out of her 
terror by the utterly unexpected question.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Aslan not fuck you?\u8221\'94 the troll asked, clearly equally surprised.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93No.\u8221\'94  The honesty of Susan\u8217\'92s answer was clear as a bell.  
\u8220\'93He wouldn\u8217\'92t.  Anyway, he\u8217\'92s a lion.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Ragnok {\i trollogodyte} and he fuck you,\u8221\'94 the troll responded, amused
.  \u8220\'93Why not lion?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
\u8217\'92s stomach turned over but from somewhere she found the courage to gaze
 into the troll\u8217\'92s one good eye.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Aslan\u8217\'92s not like that.  He\u8217\'92s good.  And if you harm me he\u8217
\'92ll\u8230\'85..\u8221\'94 she had absolutely no idea what Aslan would or could
 do and it rather begged the question of why he hadn\u8217\'92t already done it 
so she dried up, her fragile courage dissolving like mist in the morning sun.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 troll said something in his own language, which was greeted by a roar of appreciative
 laughter by the eagerly watching audience of forty or so trolls gathered in a ring
 around the fire, the Chieftain and Susan.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Then Ragnok be first,\u8221\'94 he explained the joke to Susan.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 As 
half a dozen trolls rushed at her Susan screamed, but even through this she registered
 the fact that her cunt had twitched with eager anticipation at Ragnok\u8217\'92
s promise.  Hard horny hands seized her and though she struggled and writhed had
 no difficulty restraining her and carrying her across to a low flat rock near the
 fire.  The cold of the stone soaked into her shoulders and back as they slapped
 her naked onto it like a piece of cod on a fishmonger\u8217\'92s marble slab, her
 buttocks across the edge.  Her legs were stretched out and pulled painfully wide
 apart by rough hands like vices while other brutal troll hands pressed her arms
 and shoulders to the stone, pinning her there.  A dozen leering troll faces looked
 down at her and their animal stench swept over her as thick as water.  \u8220\'93
Aslan, help me,\u8221\'94 Susan howled with all her might, her terror and her despair
, struggling uselessly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Her
 scream, and perhaps the name it carried into the furthest recesses of the cave, 
knocked the trolls back for a moment and Susan saw some of them look around apprehensively
.  Another moment passed and then another and nothing happened.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 A roar
 of relief and amusement went up around her as her plea went unanswered and from
 between her legs the troll chieftain grunted,  \u8220\'93Ragnok here to help you
 instead,\u8221\'94 causing another roar of laughter.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 only thing Susan could move was her head and, panting, she lifted it to look down
 her body at the troll.  Over the low twin mounds of her breasts and beyond the 
little hill of her pubis with its patch of curly hair between her painfully wide
-spread thighs, Ragnok stood leering cruelly.  He had discarded his kilt and had
 his penis in his hand, aiming it for her cunt.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 troll\u8217\'92s prick was very different from her brother\u8217\'92s. Where Peter
\u8217\'92s was like a large cherry tipping a long slender shaft the troll\u8217
\'92s was shorter with a fat, stubby shaft as wide as three of Susan\u8217\'92s 
fingers.  Its head, though, was as big as Susan\u8217\'92s fist, a huge red knob
 which was still swelling as she looked at it with dread and horror.  It was flar
ed even wider at its rim and was mottled with unhealthy-looking white patches.  
She had never had anything nearly as big in her cunt before and knew immediately
 that in penetrating her it was going to hurt like she had never been hurt before
.  She shrieked, and went on shrieking as Ragnok stepped forward and pressed his
 fat prick against the face of her genitals.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28  Probing
, the troll found the entrance to her vagina and began squeezing his prick into 
it. As she felt the tip of the creature\u8217\'92s penis spread her cunt-lips and
 begin entering her vagina Susan ran out of breath.  Terror lay like an iron bar
 across her chest and fear burned like acid in her stomach but between her widespread
 thighs, just beyond the tip of the troll\u8217\'92s prick squeezing its way into
 her, she felt a fierce tingling thrill of excitement and anticipation shiver in
 her cunt as it waited for the bloated troll-prick to fill it and stroke it and 
satisfy it.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 gasped as the pain began. The skin across her cunt - the remains of her virginity
 left by the dolphin - became stretched by the troll forcing his penis into her 
vagina with slow cruelty.  It hurt and then began to hurt badly, the pain climbing
 in intensity like a scream as the troll leaned forward onto her.  Even when Peter
\u8217\'92s prick was at its stiffest and hardest in her hands the head of  his 
penis had a slight rubbery give to it, and she could feel that the troll\u8217\'92
s did too.  It felt as though someone was trying to push a tennis-ball into her 
cunt.  Someone with enormous strength.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 pain became sharp and intense with the remains of her hymen stretched to a burning
 ring around the entrance to her vagina as the troll tried to squeeze more and more
 of his prick into her.  Then the skin split and tore, sending a jolt of pain through
 her which convulsed her muscles, jerked against the iron grip of the trollish hands
 holding her down and drove an involuntary cry from her lips.  The troll chieftain
\u8217\'92s prick popped another inch or so deeper into her, beginning to part the
 soft folds of hot flesh that lined the inside of her vagina, but then it encountered
 a new resistance.  The ring of Susan\u8217\'92s pelvis itself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 lash of pain as the last of her hymen gave way died quickly, leaving just a burning
 soreness at her cunt entrance which Susan could almost ignore.  Now, though, the
 real pain began.  The troll\u8217\'92s huge prick began trying to split her body
 apart like a wedge in a billet of wood.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
was just as if she was having a baby, Susan realised, but in reverse.  Girls at 
her school had gossiped about it, and she with them.  Women had died in childbirth
 because the baby\u8217\'92s head was too big to pass through that hard hole that
 surrounded the entrance to their vaginas, everyone knew that.  Some older girls
 had told them terrible stories of women who had strained in agony for a day, two
 days, three days, to force their baby\u8217\'92s head out of that narrow hole between
 their legs.  Even when it didn\u8217\'92t take that long,  forcing that ring wide
 enough for a baby\u8217\'92s head was still agony.  All girls knew that.  It was
 part of being a woman.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 had held a two-day-old baby, surreptitiously felt the hard solidity of the skull
 beneath the thin bald skin and tried to imagine squeezing it out of her vagina.  
It had terrified her, yet now in a way it was happening to her except that, huge
 as it was, the bulb of the troll\u8217\'92s prick was not as big as that baby\u8217
\'92s head nor as solid, and if she wasn\u8217\'92t quite a woman she was no longer
 a girl, either, and was certainly old enough to have babies. Her bleedings proved
 that. The pain of the hard ring at the entrance of her vagina being forced apart
 by the troll\u8217\'92s prick wracked her body like a vast throbbing ache speared
 with sharp spears of intense splitting agony but it was no more than what women
 and girls through the ages had endured giving birth, so she could endure it too
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Too
, a hot pool of excitement just beneath the heart of the pain was anticipating the
 moment when the troll\u8217\'92s prick would have forced her open wide enough to
 slide into her and fill her vagina, pressing against the soft hot flesh that ached
 to suck, squeeze and stroke it and light the fires of her orgasm.  Her mind recoiled
, sickened and disgusted at the thought of the stinking creature\u8217\'92s filthy
 flesh inside her even as her body urged him to press on and into her, tried to 
open itself to it even more and yearned to embrace it and suck it deep inside her
. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Appalled
 by her betrayal by her own body  Susan\u8217\'92s mind suddenly wished the pain
 onto it.  As the troll, snarling like an animal, pressed his prick harder and harder
 against that tough ring at the opening into her cunt and forced the tennis-ball
 little by little into her, she almost welcomed the agony between her thighs that
 felt like her bones cracking and her hip-joints being pulled apart.  It was no 
more than her body deserved.  Snarling like an animal herself, but at herself, she
 found that she could  wall the pain off in her mind and almost detach herself from
 it.  It was her body that wanted to troll to fuck it.  Let her body pay the price
 of being fucked by the troll.  Suddenly she knew she could bear this pain and worse
. Though it hurt so much that she wanted to weep and howl it was no more than she
 deserved.  Beyond the pain she knew awaited an orgasm far more intense than any
 she had previously experienced and which the troll\u8217\'92s huge, repulsive prick
 would give her, but the cost of that mind-blowing orgasm was the pain.  The pain
 was even part of it. The relief from it that she would know when her body at last
 gave way to the relentless demand of the troll\u8217\'92s prick for admittance 
into her vagina as well as the sheer sensation of the massive thing filling it would
 add up to an orgasm like no other. She opened her eyes.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 stink of troll still lay thick about her.  Cruel hands still crushed her to the
 rock table.  A sea of hideous trollish faces still loomed over her, leering down
 and excitedly drinking in her pain like a bride the scent of roses.  She could 
see the wall of misshapen, brutish troll bodies crushed together around her swaying
 and seething as the creatures behind it struggled and fought for their share of
 her agony.  She lifted her head, smiled at the semi-human creature between her 
legs and tipped her hips slightly as though inviting it to try even harder to penetrate
 her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 could see pain in Ragnok\u8217\'92s eye, too.  Presumably the bulging head of his
 prick was as sensitive as she knew her brother\u8217\'92s was and trying to force
 it through the resisting ring of her body was hurting him.  And while she had no
 choice but to endure it, he did have a choice.  Responding to her challenge he 
curled his steel-split lips open revealing flesh-tearing, stained, yellow teeth, 
sucked air in through the nose-hole in his face with a thick whistle and pressed
 harder into her.  Her pelvis groaned and gave a fraction more with a jolt of agony
 that felt like the blow of a war-hammer on her spine but she absorbed it with her
 body as though it was a shield, accepting it as though it was another coin with
 which she could purchase an even more intense orgasm when the creature at last 
broke through.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 saw Ragnok break instead.  Saw the massive, brutish creature decide that whatever
 reward it would get by fucking her - whether it was the simple lust of male for
 female  or the kudos of fucking a Daughter of Eve as he seemed to think Aslan did
 - it wasn\u8217\'92t worth the discomfort of doing it.  Knew that although she 
was totally in the creature\u8217\'92s power, a toy in its hands, she had beaten
 it.  And she knew it had seen her triumph.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 His
 cracked lips curled and his one good eye blazed anger and hate, curdling Susan\u8217
\'92s stomach with terror.  Perhaps if he had just fucked her - and all the other
 trolls in turn afterwards in all likelihood - but perhaps if all they had wanted
 was to know what it was like to fuck a Daughter of Eve she might have been dumped
 afterwards like a piece of well-used rubbish.  And survived.  Yet for an instant
 she had seen something else in the troll chief\u8217\'92s eye.  Awe, that she could
 withstand what he had to know was worse than the pain that had beaten him, grudging
 respect for her as might be for a troll with superior strength and even fear that
 he didn\u8217\'92t know or understand what had beaten him.  Susan saw this and 
knew the troll was aware she had seen it.  And knew that as a result he was going
 to break her and worse.  She might have won a victory, but she was going to pay
 a terrible price for it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28  The
 vast splitting pressure in her groin eased and the inch or so of Ragnok\u8217\'92
s prick that he had managed to force into her vagina popped bloodily out.  The pain
 that was like a huge steel wedge forcing her legs impossibly apart collapsed leaving
 a throbbing dull ache in her pelvis and a trivial burning sting from the torn remnants
 of her virginity.  He spoke in trolloc, provoking a shout of agreement and eager
 laughter from the watching trolls but Susan heard undertones of doubt and questioning
 beneath it for they, too, were aware that Ragnok had been beaten.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was bundled off the table and dropped in a heap between the fire and the rock throne
.  No effort was made to tie her up or even formally guard her but although the 
crowd of trolls broke up it was obvious to Susan that the entertainment had not 
finished for they hung around in groups and any attempt by her to run would be instantly
 closed down, although as it was she had severe doubts that her legs would even 
be able to support her if she stood.  She had smears of blood on her thighs from
 her ripped hymen and her arms and legs were developing dark bruising where troll
 fingers had held her but the creatures had, she realised, given no attention whatever
 to her breasts as though they held none of the fascination for trolls that they
 had for her brother and, she already knew, men in general.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Ragnok
 sprawled on his throne again, unkilted and with his prick bearing her blood  throbbing
 angrily in his thighs.  He was barking orders and trolls were scurrying to obey
 but Susan, who had become used to thinking like a Queen, suspected that he was 
merely re-establishing his authority after his patent failure to penetrate her and
 perhaps singling out any who might be thinking of challenging him, for if any were
 going to now would be the time.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 No 
troll did.  Instead, after a short period, a trio of trolls emerged from one of 
the caves set into the side of the main cavern carrying what was obviously another
 captive.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
was a siren.  There were a few in Narnia, living along the sea-shore or on rocky
 islets just off the coast, and a deputation of them had attended the children\u8217
\'92s Coronation a year previously to give their fealty.  Peter and Susan had been
 assured that Narnia\u8217\'92s sirens did not use their songs, and other attractions
, to lure sailors onto the rocks as did the sirens of Susan\u8217\'92s classical
 education, fealty had been offered and accepted, and the group had sung a song 
of exquisite beauty in an utterly incomprehensible language for their new Monarchs
 before returning to their homes.  And their most remarkable feature, apart from
 their astonishingly pure voices and the flawless, almost unearthly beauty which
 they shared with several of Narnia\u8217\'92s other humanoid races, was their long
 green hair.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 siren struggling uselessly and silently in the hands of the trolls was a young 
girl, naked and with her waist-length green hair flowing over her shoulders like
 water as she twisted and writhed.  Physically she was clearly younger than Susan
 with small, immature breasts much like Lucy\u8217\'92s when last Susan had seen
 them five days previously and only a small tuft of green curls coating the slit
 between her legs, although Susan was well aware this meant little as the Siren\u8217
\'92s actual age might be anything from ten years younger to hundreds of years older
 than Susan.  Although not technically human she looked like a young, green-haired
 girl, felt pain and fear, behaved and, as far as Susan was aware, thought like 
a human and it was hard to think of her as anything other than a girl she might 
have gone to school with in England.  Despite her own predicament Susan\u8217\'92
s heart went out to her and the green-haired girl\u8217\'92s emerald eyes suddenly
 saw her, going wide with surprise and then soft with a desperate appeal.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Helplessly
 Susan watched as the trolls dragged the girl before Ragnok and, to a barked order
, held her horizontally before him, pulling her legs wide apart.  Ragnar ostentatiously
 peered between them and then almost disinterestedly put a finger to the girl\u8217
\'92s tight little slit and then forced it into her body to its full length, ignoring
 her writhing. Leaving it there he grinned cruelly down at Susan.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Cunt small,\u8221\'94 he said casually.  \u8220\'93We make her big.  You see
. Then we make you big.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
blatantly and cruelly swirled his finger around inside the tiny siren\u8217\'92s
 vagina and lazily scratched the skin around his nose-hole with it, whistling a 
deep appreciative sniff.  Then he barked an order.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 As 
Susan watched the wriggling but still silent Siren was carried to the edge of the
 firelight where she was stood upright on her feel.  Her hands were lashed together
 behind her back and a rope that had been trailing uselessly down from the shadows
 under the roof high above was knotted into her waterfall of hair.  A troll seized
 what was obviously the other end of the rope nearby and hauled on it.  A spear, 
tall as a troll, was  produced and the siren\u8217\'92s ankles were bound to it 
with her legs wide-spread.  Then with her body twisting like a fish on a hook out
 of water and her jerking legs held wide by the spear the Siren was lifted into 
the air by her hair.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 For
 the first time the green-hared girl made a noise, a keening like a wetted fingertip
 drawn around the edge of a wine-glass, and Susan realised she, too, had seen what
 Susan had, and knew what was about to happen.   A thin stalagmite of white, glistening
 rock perhaps twice as high as a man rose from the cave floor next to her, tapering
 smoothly to a needle sharp, oddly-discoloured point.  As the siren rose above it
 two trolls reached up and seized her legs, the troll at the end of the rope lowered
 her slightly and the creatures holding her legs manoeuvred her over the point of
 the tall stone needle.  Ragnok sauntered over and stood between the two trolls 
holding the siren\u8217\'92s legs and peered upwards, making motions to the troll
 holding the rope to slowly release it while helping the two holding her ankles 
to line her up.  Gently she was lowered onto the tip of the stone tooth.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Her
 own pains forgotten Susan watched the inch-wide point press relentlessly against
 the siren\u8217\'92s body between the lips of her crack as her weight settled on
 it and then, as the girl\u8217\'92s virginity gave way, suddenly spear several 
inches into her with a jolt.  In response the girl\u8217\'92s pure-toned keening
 jumped to a pitch at the very edge of Susan\u8217\'92s hearing and which would 
have shattered crystal as she gave voice to her agony.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 For
 the rock point was tapered, widening like a church spire, and as the troll with
 the rope continued letting it out the girl\u8217\'92s hair settled about her shoulders
 and all her weight worked at driving the stone deeper into her  while only the 
smallness and elastic resistance of her vagina was preventing it impaling her altogether
.  Susan realised that tears were streaming down her face as the girl\u8217\'92s
 unbelievably sweet cry of agony sang through the cave.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Ragnok
 gave a satisfied nod and the two trolls at his side let go of the girl\u8217\'92
s legs.  Her keen trembled as the movement and the little extra weight drove the
 rock a further half-inch into her. With her hands behind her back she could not
 reach the rope still twined and slack in her hair and every movement she made drove
 a fraction more of the stone spike into her vagina.  Slowly and with exquisite 
care she relaxed her legs and let the spearshaft holding them apart rest against
 the stone spike, straightened her spine so that her little breasts took up their
 natural, softly-rounded form on her chest, squared her shoulders, closed her eyes
 and let her song drift into silence amid the echoes of the cavern.  Motionless 
and silent, impaled by her own weight on the stone penis, she withdrew into herself
 and her agony.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 troll chieftain again grinned with savage pleasure at Susan to make sure she was
 watching and then reached up with a blunt finger to smear a horizontal line on 
the stone spike through thin lines of crimson blood trickling down it from the girl
\u8217\'92s crotch.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93When she get there, she big enough,\u8221\'94 he announced happily.  The line
 was six inches below the siren\u8217\'92s wide-stretched vaginal lips and the stone
 spike twice as thick  as it was where it was then spread them.  \u8220\'93Then 
we do you.\u8221\'94 \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
\u8217\'92s stomach shrank to a cold knot but she said steadily enough, \u8220\'93
Let her go and do me now, then.\u8221\'94  She was faint with fear at what she was
 asking him to do, yet she was also High Queen of Narnia and the girl suffering 
on the point of the stone spear was one of her subjects whom it was Susan\u8217\'92
s duty to protect.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 There
 was a murmur from the listening trolls and Susan knew she had scored another point
 off the chieftain.   She had challenged him, yet if he was to meet that challenge
 they would have to let the green-haired girl down before her cunt-lips reached 
the line drawn in her blood, if she survived that long.  Susan watched Ragnok consider
 his options and then sneer a response.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93No.  We sleep now.  You make us happy tonight.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Despite
 her horror and heart-wrenching sympathy for the little siren, who would be hours
 on her spike as a result, Susan felt a vast wave of relief at her own reprieve.  
She had seen, too, another flare of awe and unwilling respect for her in the chieftain
\u8217\'92s one good eye as she had challenged him to do something he had obviously
 thought would reduce her to terror, even as it had.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I need a drink,\u8221\'94 Susan croaked, quite truthfully as unremitting fear
 of the night and the horror she had endured and seen in the cavern had left her
 parched.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Then Ragnok give you drink,\u8221\'94 the troll said immediately.  In three 
paces he crossed to her, tilted his hips to her and a jet of urine from his penis
 hit her in the face.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 jerked her head away, dashing the steaming hot, thick, stinking liquid from her
 lips.  A moment later another jet from the other side hit her in the ear and ran
 over her shoulder. Within moments a dozen laughing trolls were peeing on her, chanting
 \u8216\'91drink, drink, drink\u8217\'92 urine was streaming down her back and over
 her breasts and thighs as she furiously tried to keep any of it from hitting her
 in the face.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was kneeling weeping with anger, terror and sheer weariness in a wide pool of piss
 and feeling it trickle from her hair and cool on her skin, when it at last stopped
.  Ragnok barked an order and she was lifted to her feet and dragged to a deep bay
 at the edge of the cavern.  There her hands were raised above her head and her 
wrists tied to another rope dangling from the roof.  There was no sharp spike to
 lower her on, however.  Instead she was swung over a hole in the floor which, she
 saw once she was over it, looked very like a well.  It was pitch black and as she
 was lowered into it she knew without knowing how that it was very, very deep.  
As her head disappeared below the level of the floor she caught a last glimpse of
 the siren balancing motionless on the stone spike piercing her sex. Then the darkness
 of the well together with a breathtaking stench embraced her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 A little
 further down her feet made contact with what felt like a round pole spanning the
 hole.  It was no wider than her feet and slimy, like a greased pole at a fair,  
yet it served to take the weight off her arms and she stood on it.   Instantly the
 trolls above stopped lowering her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93We come you tonight,\u8221\'94  one said.  \u8220\'93You wait us.\u8221\'94  
Then, choking with laughter at his wit, their feet scuffed away from the well. \par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh Aslan, please help me,\u8221\'94 Susan begged with all her heart into the
 silence and loneliness around her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 For
 a long moment nothing changed then, above her, she heard a soft padding as of big
 paws on stone and even the little light that seeped into the pit from above was
 blacked out as something large and round filled the mouth of the well.  Susan\u8217
\'92s heart leapt with relief and joy as she turned her face upwards.  \u8220\'93
Oh, Aslan,\u8221\'94 she called out happily.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Something
 warm, sloppily soft and stinking hit her in the face to drop off onto her breasts
 and slide thickly down her stomach.  Shock paralysed Susan even as she realised
 what it was.  A moment later a thick stream of urine splashed against the rock 
wall just above her head and showered her with a fine hot spray.  The troll farted
 explosively in Susan\u8217\'92s direction, grunted with contentment and then shuffled
 away.  Frantically Susan tried to shake the remnants of the lump of troll-shit 
off her face and her feet slid off the slippery pole beneath her.  Her heart stopped
 as she dropped two feet into the black depths beneath her, then she jerked painfully
 to a stop as the rope took up the strain.  For a moment she dangled from her arms
 but then with desperate feet located the pole and after an arm-cracking struggle
 managed to get back onto it again.  Another troll arse appeared over the mouth 
of the pit above her, more shit rained down on her and Susan realised she had been
 hung in the latrine.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 day became a nightmare.    Stones knocked into the pit by the feet of trolls visiting
 it for a shit and a piss on her rattled and clattered off rocky walls that sounded
 far, far below her. She fell off her perch to hang over the awful drop twice more
 when, weary to the bone, she dozed off  and lost her footing, but the rope was 
not slack enough to allow her to sit down on it.  The slack did allow her to bring
 her tied wrists down almost to the level of her head and, grunting with the strain
, she once lifted herself by her arms sufficiently to explore the knot holding her
.  It was caked with troll-shit, as was she, yet in her despair she seriously considered
 attacking it with her teeth.  Her hands, though, were separately tied and although
 she could get the rope into them it was thin and slippery and they were numb.  
When the knot gave way her grip on the rope would be the only thing preventing her
 dropping back onto the slippery pole and if she missed her footing on that she 
would drop helplessly into the unknown black depths below.  Even this at times seemed
 tempting, yet she still clung to the hope that the trolls only wanted to fuck her
, and probably fuck her and fuck her and fuck her, yet she could surely survive 
that and might one day\u8230\'85   \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 did not try calling on Aslan again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Slow
 hours passed and she was becoming delirious with thirst, half-dozing in a semi-
squat like a chicken on the pole with part of her weight on her arms and the rest
 on her feet, layers of troll-shit on her head, shoulders and the upper slopes of
 her breasts when without warning the rope jerked her upwards.  Taken by surprise
 she screamed, but she had spent all her strength and more just maintaining her 
perch for hour after hour and could do nothing but dangle helplessly by the arms
 as she was hauled from the pit.  A grinning party of trolls dragged her like a 
sack across the rough rock floor and deposited her at the feet of Ragnok in his 
throne.  Even the little light from the fire now burned Susan\u8217\'92s eyes and
 she turned away her head away.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Pah!\u8221\'94  Ragnok spat on her.  \u8220\'93Queen of Narnia smell.  Disrespectful
 to Ragnok. Clean her.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was dragged away, rock fragments and sharp striations on the floor scraping her
 skin,  clawing at her breasts and catching with sharp agonies at her nipples while
 her shoulders bumped off boulders and the ankles of laughing trolls.  Then she 
was  picked up and thrown through the air.  She screamed on seeing a ragged-edged
 black mouth in the rock floor beneath her and then caught a glimpse of the shimmer
 of water within it the moment before she hit it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
was near freezing and the cold seared into her.  It was deep, too, and with her 
hands still tied to the rope she couldn\u8217\'92t swim.  Desperately she twisted
 beneath the surface but her feet could find no bottom to the pool and she sunk 
into its depths.  Then the rope jerked at her shoulders and she was hauled from 
the water like a fish to lay choking and shaking with cold on the edge of the pool
.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Still dirty,\u8221\'94 a voice declared and she was tossed back into the pool
 again.  This time they left her there until the cold was beginning to squeeze her
 heart and the blood scream in her ears before twitching her out again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Still dirty.\u8221\'94  She barely had time to snatch a breath before she was
 back in the pool again, being dragged helplessly by the arms from side to side 
underwater like a piece of washing in a tub.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was dunked twice more before the voice declared happily, \u8220\'93Queen clean,
\u8221\'94 and she was dragged before Ragnok again.  She had, though, been able 
to snatch a quick drink  and the shock of the icy water had cleared her mind.  Dripping
 like a fish and fighting to take command of muscles that were shaking with cold
 she actually felt slightly better and  forced herself to her knees to face up to
 her tormentor.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 troll chieftain gave her a smile that promised pain and yet more pain.  \u8220\'93
We open you up now for Ragnok,\u8221\'94 he said with satisfaction.  \u8220\'93And
 you make Ragnok child.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 So 
that was it.  Susan sagged. He wanted to breed from her.  Whether she could actually
 conceive a child by the creature she had no idea.  In Narnia many things were possible
 which would never happen back in her own world.  She couldn\u8217\'92t even begin
 to imagine what such a cross-breed would look like but if it acquired any of its
 father\u8217\'92s physical characteristics at all it would surely be impossible
 for her to give birth to it anyway.  It would simply be too big. Her heart sank
 like a stone into her stomach at the prospect of that, yet a small flare of hope
 ignited there, too.  While Ragnok held to that intention he would surely want her
 reasonably fit and healthy, so he would not be likely to damage her too much.  
He would surely also not let any of the other males of his clan have her, let alone
 all of them as had been a real fear, for he would want to be sure any offspring
 was his.  It even made a kind of sense, for she was well aware that in Narnia the
 blood of a Son of Adam or Daughter of Eve had the kind of mystical aura accorded
 royalty in her own world, and there it had not been unknown for royal females to
 be forceably kidnapped and bred from by a powerful family or clan seeking an infusion
 of royal blood.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 But
 to get her pregnant the troll had to impregnate her, and to do that he had to penetrate
 her, and to do that he had to \u8216\'91open her up\u8217\'92 for his penis.  She
 glanced up and to one side.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 green-haired girl was still impaled like a rag doll on the rock spike.  Her eyes
 were open and rested on Susan but they were dull with agony endured beyond endurance
.  Between her lax thighs her impossibly stretched cunt-lips were much closer to
 the line drawn in her blood than they had been all those hours ago, but they were
 still two inches short of it and the line was almost invisible beneath a sheen 
of fresh, glistening crimson blood.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93How can you expect me to have a baby if you do that to me?\u8221\'94 she gasped
 in horror.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93How Ragnok get prick in if not do?\u8221\'94 Ragnok enquired mildly, the breath
 whistling through the hole in his face.  \u8220\'93And how you have troll baby 
with Daughter of Eve\u8217\'92s little cunt?\u8221\'94  He nodded at her thighs. 
\u8220\'93Just open up door,\u8221\'94 he went on.  \u8220\'93No hurt inside.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 reluctantly accepted that.  From what she knew of the lay-out of her own insides
 it was likely that the rock spike would not have penetrated far enough to do any
 damage to her ovaries or womb by the time it had forced the mouth of her vagina
 open wide enough to accept a bulbous troll penis, and if she was to give birth 
to a human-troll baby she might well need it to be wider still.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 green-haired girl, though, was much smaller than she was and the rock where the
 line was drawn had become thicker than Ragnok\u8217\'92s prick by an two inches
 or more.  If the siren\u8217\'92s internal arrangements were the same as Susan\u8217
\'92s the blunt tip of the stone spear would already have torn through the end of
 her vagina where it turned its right-angle into her uterus.  It was no wonder the
 stone between the girls\u8217\'92 legs was wet with blood. Her weight on it was
 slowly driving the point through her internal organs.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Then let\u8217\'92s get on with it,\u8221\'94 Susan snarled back at the troll
, her desire to end the siren\u8217\'92s suffering overcoming even her own terror
 of what was to come.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Ragnor
 could not hide his momentary surprise, nor the flare once again of awe and respect
 for Susan in his eye as she sought what he had expected her to cower from. Knowing
 she had seen it he spat at her in fury.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes.  Water girl take to long.  Finish it, and have her,\u8221\'94 he angrily
 told the crowd of trolls watching in eager anticipation.  With a delighted howl
 the crowd rushed to gather around the siren\u8217\'92s rock.  Cruel hands reached
 up to seize the spear-shaft and her ankles over their heads and, as Susan watched
 with appalled horror, began steadily pulling her downwards.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 siren shrieked, a sustained note of unbelievable purity and agony to which she 
added strange and impossible harmonics of such desolation that it broke Susan\u8217
\'92s heart.  Remorselessly more and yet more of the stone spike seemed to slide
 into the siren\u8217\'92s vagina and Susan saw the narrow floor at the bottom of
 her wide-stretched crevice split open like a crack in an ice-covered pool while
 the little lobes of her labia and the tiny finger that was her immature clitoris
 were ground into a mush by the slowly sliding rock like trees before a glacier 
and sucked into the crimson pulp that had been her vagina.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 wreckage of the green-haired girl\u8217\'92s genitals touched the line and the 
trolls cheered.  One seized the end of the rope tied into her hair and began hauling
 it in.  Limply hanging from by her hair the breathlessly keening siren rose from
 the spike of rock and a gush of blood gouted from the hole into her body to slide
 like red ice down its white sides.  Barely clear of the rock she was dragged away
 from it and lowered to the eagerly awaiting hands.  The rope was ripped from her
 hair, her ankles unlashed from the spear and she was carried high like a trophy
 above the mob to the low rock, dripping blood onto the heads beneath her.  To her
 horror Susan could see that she was still alive as, though silent now, her head
 moved weakly and her fluttering eyes probed the shadows beneath the roof above 
her as though seeking the sun or the stars beyond.  At the rock she was flung down
 on it like a slab of meat and her legs wrenched apart just as Susan\u8217\'92s 
had been in the morning but the troll who made to step between them, already flinging
 his kilt aside, was roughly bundled aside by another.  An angry fist was flung 
and within moments a free-for-all brawl had broken out involving about a dozen trolls
 all apparently determined to be the first to fuck the broken green-haired girl.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Only
 around a quarter of the trolls in the cavern were involved in the fight.  Many 
of the rest stood by and watched with interest, the siren laying sprawled motionless
 on the rock almost forgotten, blood pooling around her thighs.  At Ragnok\u8217
\'92s bark three came over and hauled Susan roughly to her feet.  She was dragged
 over to the spear of rock still dripping with the siren\u8217\'92s blood and the
 rope from the siren\u8217\'92s hair lashed around her arms and chest just beneath
 her breasts, Susan\u8217\'92s shoulder-length hair presumably not being long enough
 to tie it to.  Her legs were wrenched apart and her ankles lashed to the spear. 
A troll heaved at the rope and she soared into the air.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 was too weak to fight.  Big hands seized her ankles and positioned her  legs each
 side of the spike.  At the low rock on which the siren lay dying the fight was 
over with several trolls lying sprawled on the rock floor as others picked themselves
 up or sat nursing gouges or bruises.  The winner stepped between the green-haired
 girl\u8217\'92s legs waving his fat, stubby prick triumphantly at his audience, 
although many of them were also trying to watch Susan being lowered onto her stone
 spike at the same time.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 felt the tip of the spike gently kiss her body between the legs and the trolls 
holding her ankles manoeuvre her into position.  Ragnok had left his throne and, 
blatently ignoring what was happening to the green-haired girl, was standing below
 Susan directing the insertion of the rock spike into her cunt.  She felt it part
 her cunt-lips and locate the hole that was her vagina but with a curious, almost
 serene calm, barely noticed it.  Instead from her vantage-point she could see over
 the heads of the interested crowd of trolls surrounding the siren of her rock to
 the green-haired girl herself.  As the troll between her legs stepped forward and
 pressed his penis into the crimson mess between her thighs, forcing a gout of bloody
 pulp out of her body as he pressed his prick quite literally into her flesh, she
 turned her head to face Susan, her eyes met the Queen\u8217\'92s and she smiled
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Then
, with four inches of the stone spike in her vagina its widening flanks met the 
resistance of her pelvic girdle and the pain began.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f0\lang5129\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 11\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f0\lang5129\fs32\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28  King
 Edmund was still lying snugly abed enjoying the prospect of a few Susanless days
 in Cair Paravel when the alarm trumpets began blaring.  Deciding that Peter was
 also taking advantage of Susan\u8217\'92s absence by holding some kind of surprise
 exercise for the army, which had nothing to do with him, he snuggled deeper into
 his blankets and ignored it.  A few minutes later, however, came a tap at his door
 and his anxious major-domo, a four-foot-high badger called Brock, put a hairy, 
long-nosed head around it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Forgive me, my King,\u8221\'94 he growled.  \u8220\'93There is an emergency.  
The High King requests your presence in the War Room without delay.\u8221\'94\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 shot out of bed.  If his brother had decided to include him in his war games Edmund
 was not about to miss the chance.  And perhaps it wasn\u8217\'92t a game.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93What\u8217\'92s the matter?\u8221\'94 he asked as a stream of talking rabbit
 servants poured into the room behind the badger, bearing his clothes for the day
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Her Majesty, the High Queen, has been taken,\u8221\'94 Brock told him solemnly
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93What?  Where?  By who?\u8221\'94 Edmund squeaked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The High King knows all there is to know,\u8221\'94 the badger told him.  \u8220
\'93I know no more than that.\u8221\'94  Impatiently and with a very nervous buzz
 in his stomach Edmund allowed the rabbits to dress him and then ran from his rooms
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peter
\u8217\'92s War Room was based on the one Churchill was supposed to have somewhere
 beneath Horseguard\u8217\'92s Parade in London where the War Cabinet met.  King
 Peter\u8217\'92s, though, was a small room above the castle\u8217\'92s extensive
 stables which linked the Royal part of Cair Paravel with the garrison.  A few crude
 maps of doubtful accuracy hung on the walls and a big, empty table sat in its middle
 between a few chairs for the very few denizens of Narnia that could use a one.  
A ramp had been built up to it from ground-level to allow the Centaurs which formed
 the bulk of Peter\u8217\'92s staff to reach the room from ground level.  As Edmund
  rushed into it he saw many of them gathered in the open space left for them with
 the leaders of the talking-dog squadrons trying to keep out from under their hooves
 and the humanoid Generals of the dwarf and gnome Corps of Guards perched uncomfortably
 on the chairs which, Peter-sized, were too tall for them.  Centre of attention, 
though, was Belrath, steaming, gleaming and dripping white-foaming sweat onto the
 carpet of Royal blue.  For Belrath to be in Cair Paravel when High Queen Susan 
was somewhere else was very bad news indeed and Edmund\u8217\'92s heart lurched.  
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Peter,\u8221\'94 he called across the crowded, seething room.  His brother turned
 from an earnest conversation with the giant red squirrel who commanded the Corps
 of Scouts, called, \u8220\'93wait \u8216\'91til Lucy gets here,\u8221\'94 and turned
 away again.  Edmund scowled.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 A few
 minutes later Lucy bustled in, her hair patently unbrushed and untied lacing still
 trailing from the bodice of her dress.  In a wave of surreptitious movement a path
 opened for her to cross the room to Peter in a way that hadn\u8217\'92t happened
 for Edmund.  Ignoring her twin Lucy swept down it and Edmund, scowling even harder
, had to follow in her wake.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Susan was kidnapped last night, in Kingsbridge,\u8221\'94 Peter told them without
 preamble.  \u8220\'93It seems there was a secret passage to her bedroom no-one 
knew about.  She wasn\u8217\'92t missed until they went to wake her this morning
.  The dogs say it was Cave Trolls.\u8221\'94  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Lucy
 screamed and Edmund went cold.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The hounds tracked them to the river\u8217\'92s edge where it seems they had
 a boat waiting,\u8221\'94 Peter went on, \u8220\'93Belrath came right here to raise
 the alarm.\u8221\'94  Which meant, Edmund realised, that the Centaur had covered
 twenty miles in very little time.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I\u8217\'92m arranging to have both banks of the river combed in both directions
,\u8221\'94 Peter went on, \u8220\'93Tho\u8217\'92 I don\u8217\'92t think they would
 have gone downstream as there is nowhere for them to go.  But if they took Sue 
early in the night, they could still have got a long way before dawn.  Don\u8217
\'92t worry.  We\u8217\'92ll soon find her and get her back,\u8221\'94 he finished
 with a confidence Edmund knew was forced.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Aslan won\u8217\'92t let anything {\lang1033 bad }happen to her,\u8221\'94 Lucy
 declared firmly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93No, of course he won\u8217\'92t,\u8221\'94 Peter agreed with her fondly.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93What can I do?\u8221\'94  Edmund offered.  He didn\u8217\'92t share his brother
\u8217\'92s confidence that it would be possible to quickly find a presumably small
 party of trolls in the vast forests that lay between Cair Paravel and Beruna, and
 even if they did Susan had already been in their hands for perhaps twelve hours
, which meant there might not be much left of her to find.  Very little was known
 of what trolls did to their captives and those who knew even that little had refused
 to impart most of it to the Royal children yet what very little indeed Edmund knew
 was {\lang1033  }all {\lang1033 still} very, very unpleasant. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Which
 left Aslan.  But if they were relying on Aslan to rescue Susan from the trolls 
it begged the question as to why the great lion had allowed the trolls to capture
 {\lang1033 her} in the first place.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I\u8217\'92m going to be taking charge of things here,\u8221\'94 Peter declared
.  \u8220\'93You two are going to have to carry out the Royal duties on your own
 until Susan is back.  No,\u8221\'94 he overrode the beginnings of a protest from
 Lucy.  \u8220\'93It\u8217\'92s important that things go on as normally as possible
.  If we all flap around everyone will get frightened and that\u8217\'92s how panic
 starts.  You\u8217\'92ve got to show everyone that you\u8217\'92re not worried 
so they can take courage from you.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 reflected that there had been a lot of that kind of talk in London in the weeks
 before they were evacuated.  He hadn\u8217\'92t looked to hear it in Narnia too
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Come on, Lu,\u8221\'94 he said firmly.  \u8220\'93Peter\u8217\'92s right.  Don
\u8217\'92t forget, \u8216\'91Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile
, smile, smile\u8217\'92.\u8221\'94  He began warbling the old marching song from
 the First World War, which had been undergoing something of a revival in the England
 they had left.  After a moment his twin joined in firmly and they marched from 
the room, which immediately broke out into a murmur of suggestion, observation and
 counter-suggestion behind them.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Once
 outside Lucy stopped singing and turned to face Edmund.  He knew that she wanted
 comfort and reassurance but the occasion he had blackmailed her into letting him
 have sex with her in the maze lay like a wall between them.  Without that he recognised
 that he might have been able to take her in his arms and give her a hug, and who
 knew what that might have led to in the circumstances of the day.  Now, though, 
he knew that she didn\u8217\'92t want him to touch her. Rather coldly she declared
 that she was going to finish getting dressed and would then organise breakfast, 
and left him.  In need of the lavatory in his rooms Edmund made his way there thoughtfully
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 He 
knew his twin sister well enough to know that she was deeply worried, as was Peter
. {\lang1033 This} frightened him for he certainly didn\u8217\'92t share his twin
\u8217\'92s confidence in Aslan.   He hadn\u8217\'92t seen the great lion since 
their coronation nearly a year earlier and was quite happy about it, for Aslan made
 him very uncomfortable.  {\lang1033 The lion} was, Edmund felt in a way he knew
 none of the others would understand, just too good to be true.  It had {\lang1033
already }occurred to Edmund that the White Witch\u8217\'92s downfall {\lang1033 would
 not} have been so easy had the whole incident of the lion\u8217\'92s voluntary 
sacrifice on the Stone Table not occurred, yet for that to have happened it had 
been necessary for the Witch to have had Edmund to bargain with in the first place
.   Given what had happened it seemed to Edmund that in fact he had been the sacrificial
 victim, not Aslan. Indeed, Edmund harboured a strong suspicion that Aslan had manipulated
 him and the others from {\lang1033 the outset} although it was not a suspicion 
he could possibly have shared with them, and he could not help feeling that if it
 suited Aslan\u8217\'92s purposes he or any of the others were utterly expendable
.  Some of the previous Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve who had sat on Narnia\u8217
\'92s throne at Aslan\u8217\'92s bidding, had come to very sticky ends indeed, a
 fact which his brother and sisters seemed oblivious to.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Being
 a King in Narnia was just like a fairytale, he reflected as he entered his suite
, and in fairytales some very unpleasant things can happen.  Remember Hansel and
 Gretel. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
 was waiting from him in his bedroom, surprising him from his reflections.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 At 
the sight of her little white legs beneath the serrated edge of the leaf-green dress
 his prick twitched eagerly but he saw from the look on her face that she was not
 there to pleasure him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King,\u8221\'94 she whispered, bowing so low that he could see the perfectly
 flat plain of her chest through the loose-neckline of the dress.  \u8220\'93This
 is an terrible thing.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes.\u8221\'94  The little fairy\u8217\'92s {\lang1033 obvious }concern added
 to Edmund\u8217\'92s worry.  \u8220\'93I wish there was something I could do.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 fairy\u8217\'92s silence was more eloquent that words.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93What?  What is it?\u8221\'94 Edmund asked eagerly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King\u8230\'85\u8221\'94  Peaseblossom bobbed uneasily.  \u8220\'93I wish
 for the High Queen\u8217\'92s safe return above all things.  Yet more than all 
things I would not put the King I love in the way of danger.  What is Peaseblossom
 to do?\u8221\'94  The bright, wide eyes which regarded him from her lovely little
-girl\u8217\'92s face were full of trouble and unhappiness.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93I don\u8217\'92t understand, PB\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund} told her, still
 tingling from the way she had referred to \u8216\'91the King I love\u8217\'92.  
\u8220\'93Is there something I could do?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King,\u8221\'94 the fairy whispered unhappily.  \u8220\'93There may not be
 anything anyone could do, by now.   Queen Susan has been in the hands of the {\i
trolloclodyte }for more than long enough\u8230\'85.  Yet,\u8221\'94 she shook off
 the meaningful pause visibly and her voice took on a firmer tone.  \u8220\'93The
 High Queen of Narnia in person is perhaps a toy even they will be reluctant to 
break too quickly, so we may yet be able to wrest her from them.  If we knew where
 they were.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes.\u8221\'94  Edmund felt a moment\u8217\'92s exasperation at her for stating
 the obvious.  \u8220\'93Peter\u8217\'92s doing all he can to find them.\u8221\'94
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The High King is indeed,\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom agreed hesitantly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93\u8217\'92But\u8217\'92 what?\u8221\'94  Edmund asked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93There is another way,\u8221\'94 the fairy offered reluctantly.  \u8220\'93But
\u8230\'85\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93\u8217\'92But\u8217\'92 what?\u8221\'94  Edmund asked again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The Oracle is of the Deep Magic.\u8221\'94  Peaseblossom said.  \u8220\'93It
 will know if anything can be done to save the High Queen.  But as it is of the 
Deep Magic it would not be proper for the High King to ask of it.  And Queen Lucy
 is female{\lang1033 , and still so young.}\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 Deep Magic was something Narnians to a creature were reluctant to talk about.  
In some way it underpinned Narnia itself and even Aslan and the White Witch were
 subject to it, as Aslan had called on it and the Witch had been ruled by it when
 they had clashed on the children\u8217\'92s first arrival in Narnia.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Why wouldn\u8217\'92t it be proper for Peter to ask it?\u8221\'94 Edmund asked
.  \u8220\'93Is it dangerous?  Are you saying I\u8217\'92ve got to do it?\u8221\'94
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The thrones you sit upon and the power born there are not of the Deep Magic,
\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom explained.  \u8220\'93It would be unwise for the High King
 to bring the one to the other.  Is it dangerous?  Is the wind dangerous?  Is water
 dangerous?  No Narnian will recognise the Oracle, for they fear it too much.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Why is Lucy being female\u8230\'85.? She\u8216\'91s older than me.  Though not
 by much.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93The Deep Magic is of the male,\u8221\'94 the fairy explained.  \u8220\'93And
 ever seeks domination over the female..  The price it would ask of Queen Lucy for
 this knowledge\u8230\'85.  She is but a child yet, and unready for that.\u8221\'94
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8216
\'91What?\u8217\'92 Edmund wanted to ask but didn\u8217\'92t like to.  \u8220\'93
But what about me?\u8221\'94 he asked instead.  \u8220\'93Would it ask a price of
 me?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Knowledge is never free,\u8221\'94 the little fairy declared solemnly.  \u8220
\'93The Oracle will always ask a price.  Sometimes it is boon, sometimes doom.  
Sometimes dooms seem like boons, sometimes dooms are boons.  The Deep Magic is subtle
 and works across ages.  The price it might ask could seem trivial, yet who can 
foresee what the consequences of the tiniest action may be across time?  Or again
, its price may be valuable beyond worth.  When King Acemonix consulted the Oracle
 the price asked was just two stones from his kingdom, which the King agreed to 
pay.  When payment fell due the Oracle demanded his testicles.  Thus Queen Alithea
 came to the Throne rather than any later sons the king might have had.  She ruled
 well, but who can say whether that was better than what might have been? The Deep
 Magic is not evil, nor is it good.  It is itself. Will my king risk this for his
 sister?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Put
 like that Edmund knew he had no choice.  \u8220\'93How\u8230\'85? Where\u8230\'85
?\u8221\'94 he asked nervously.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Will my King make trial of the Oracle?\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom asked solemnly
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Yes,\u8221\'94 Edmund said unhappily.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King is noble beyond Narnia\u8217\'92s worth,\u8221\'94 the little fairy 
breathed in awe, her eyes gazing fondly on Edmund.  \u8220\'93Come.\u8221\'94\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Her
 King, Edmund reflected as he followed her into the secret passages, was scared 
stiff and not at all sure he would be able to go through with it when actually faced
 with the Oracle, whatever it was.  Yet for the moment the look of love in Peaseblossom
\u8217\'92s eyes held him to the purpose.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 She
 led him deep into the passages below the castle, and then off in a direction she
 had never taken before.  At last they entered a round chamber with no exit.  Standing
 at its centre was a stone arch within which a white fog swirled as though it opened
 to somewhere else entirely different because, Edmund presumed, it did.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93My King must pass through the arch and follow the path to the Oracle,\u8221\'94
 Peaseblossom said in a whisper.  \u8220\'93I shall wait here for your return.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Aren\u8217\'92t you coming?\u8221\'94 Edmund squeaked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93It would not be proper,\u8221\'94 the little fairy told him.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
\u8217\'92s nerve wavered.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93There are no dangers there,\u8221\'94 Peaseblossom assured him.  \u8220\'93Beyond
 the Deep Magic itself.  And the choices it offers are yours to accept or decline
 as you wish.  If my King deems the price too high no-one will know of it but me
, and in my eyes my King can do no wrong.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh, Peebee!\u8221\'94  Edmund wanted to hug the little fairy and certainly did
 not want to go through the arch, yet as she drew her tiny body upright as though
 offering it to him without reserve he did the only thing he felt he could, and 
strode firmly into the fog.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 It 
chilled him and a {\lang1033 cold, }sharp dampness filled his nose, yet it quickly
 thinned to a breathing mist through which he could see a narrow path at his feet
 leading away {\lang1033 across} a thin, sour grass-covered hillside.  Reluctantly
 he followed it.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 path led steeply downwards in a curve as though in a bowl in some bleak moorland
 hillside and terminated at the edge of a wide pool of black, bitter-looking water
 from which the mists surrounded him seemed to be issuing.  At the centre of the
 pool lay a small islet on which stood a stone table much like the one on which 
Aslan had allowed himself to be sacrificed.  Sitting easily on the table, swinging
 his legs lazily beneath it and whistling tunelessly was a tubby old man with long
 white hair{\lang1033 , a round, cheerful face and }wearing a black academic gown
 over a shabby grey suit.  He was an amalgam of every teacher Edmund had ever known
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Hello.\u8221\'94  He {\lang1033 peered at Edmund through tiny  round gold-rimmed
 spectacles and then }hailed {\lang1033 him }across the water{\lang1033 , waving
} happily.  \u8220\'93Lovely day.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Are you the Oracle?\u8221\'94  Edmund called back, uncertainly.  It didn\u8217
\'92t seem like a lovely day to him, from any viewpoint.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 The
 tutor seemed to ponder the question.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Strictly speaking, no,\u8221\'94 he said.  \u8220\'93If you want the true Oracle
 you\u8217\'92d have to go to Greece, and long ago.  But we have much in common, 
she and I.\u8221\'94 \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Oh.  Peaseblossom sent me to find the Oracle,\u8221\'94 Edmund said helplessly
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93No,\u8221\'94 the {\lang1033 old }man said cheerfully.  \u8220\'93Your {\lang1033
lissom }little friend sent you to find me.  But had she used the name by which I
\u8217\'92m known here you would not have known what she was talking about.  Giving
 me a name you understood saved time which,\u8221\'94 he observed solemnly, \u8220
\'93I am now wasting on semantics.  You want to know where your elder sister is, 
yes?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Er, what is you price for telling me?\u8221\'94 Edmund asked nervously.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93Worried for your balls, boy?\u8221\'94 the old man guffawed.  \u8220\'93Well
, most men would be better off if they thought with their brains instead of with
 their balls.  I\u8217\'92ll {\lang1033 tell }you that for free.  But {\lang1033
few men} can tell the difference and while it doesn\u8217\'92t matter most of the
 time it does when he\u8217\'92s a king.  But don\u8217\'92t worry, yours are safe
.  From me anyway.  That pretty little fairy friend of yours is another matter, 
of course, but you certainly wouldn\u8217\'92t want to pay me anything to learn 
that so I\u8217\'92ll not tell you.  In fact the price for this knowledge is not
 yours to pay at all, but another\u8217\'92s.  And he may choose whether or not 
to pay it.  Do you want it?\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28 Not
 fully understanding but hugely relieved that what he was doing was apparently not
 going to cost him anything Edmund nodded.  The teacher looked gratified, sighted
 down two pointed fingers at Edmund with his thumb cocked and said, \u8220\'93Pow
\u8221\'94 like a schoolboy playing at cowboys.{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 The knowledge you seek is now in your mind,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  
he told Edmund, blowing across his fingertips like the barrel of an imaginary revolver
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 The price for its revelation is for the Queen}\u8217\'92
{\lang1033 s horseman to acknowledge his greatest desire.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Er.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Edmund, confused, stood helplessly looking
 at him.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Go, boy.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  The Oracle chivvied Edmund away with his
 hands urgently.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Time speeds against your sister.  Your little
 fairy succubus will know what to do.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Er, yes.  Right.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   A still confused Edmund turned
 and ran.   \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28  The
 path led him back uphill into the mist which thickened and clung to him.  Then 
the archway loomed darkly out of it and he stumbled through it into the room where
 Peaseblossom was waiting anxiously.  As he appeared she flung herself at him and
 clung frantically about his neck.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Oh my King is safe,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} she wept.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}Did he get the information he sought?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}I{\lang5129\u8230\'85} Yes{\lang5129\u8230\'85} I don{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t know,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Edmund admitted, hugging her tiny, lithe body.  
{\lang5129\u8220\'93}I talked to the Oracle.  He said the knowledge was in my mind
, but I wouldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t know it unless the Queen{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s horseman paid the price.  Something about him and his greatest wish.  Who is 
the Queen{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s horseman?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28      The 
fairy untangled herself and floated away a few feet.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}The Queen
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s horseman?{\lang5129\u8221\'94} she echoed thoughtfully.  
{\lang5129\u8220\'93}The Queen has no horsemen.  Perhaps it meant the Queen{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s horse-man?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Belrath!{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  Edmund exclaimed, understanding instantly
.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Where is he?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28      The 
little fairy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s eyes, which had been searching his face worriedly
, suddenly lost focus as though she was looking at something within herself.  Then
 they fixed on him again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}The Centaur is with the High King,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} she said with
 complete confidence.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Should I tell Peter, you know, about this?{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Edmund
 asked her reluctantly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Better that you speak with the Centaur first,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Peaseblossom
 suggested.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}If he does not wish to pay the price it will be
 easier for him not to if the High King is not looking for him to.{\lang5129\u8221
\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Not want to do his greatest wish?  Why should he want to do that?{\lang5129
\u8221\'94}  Edmund asked, perplexed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28      {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}He will not,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} the fairy declared with certainty.  
{\lang5129\u8220\'93}And he will not trust the Deep Magic.  Yet his given duty to
 the High Queen imposes a terrible obligation on him to do both.  I fear he will
 not respond to your majesty with joy when you tell him of this.  Yet every minute
 we waste is a minute more of terror for Queen Susan, so we must seek him out without
 delay.  Come, my King.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28     Still
 confused, Edmund obediently followed the little fairy as she led him back through
 the labyrinth of passages, the glow of light from her wand glinting off the grooves
 and gouges left in the raw rock walls by the tools of the long-forgotten tunnellers
.  Eventually they emerged through an ancient door on rusty hinges into the daylight
 of an empty, disused room alongside the vast stables which served the Castle.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28    {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}If the High King were to see your majesty, he might enquire why you are
 here,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Peaseblossom said to Edmund shyly.  {\lang5129\u8220
\'93}Better perhaps if I seek out the Centaur and bring him to you. Yes?{\lang5129
\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28    {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Er, yes,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} Edmund agreed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28    {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}Then if my King will wait here{\lang5129\u8230\'85\u8221\'94}  Giving
 him no time to agree or disagree the little fairy darted off like a gnat. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Completely
 perplexed by it all Edmund waited.  Distantly he could here the uproar in the castle
, the clatter of hooves, the blare of horns sounding assemble, excited voices nearby
 comparing often wildly inaccurate speculation while in his forgotten room a fly
 buzzed endlessly and dust settled slowly through the early morning sunshine shining
 in through the unglassed window.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Then
 the door jerked open and Queen Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s huge Centaur ducked 
in under the nine-foot high lintel, Peaseblossom floating behind him.  Edmund backed
 nervously into a corner.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Majesty.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Belrath briefly acknowledged Edmund
 and then his eyes flicked around the room.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 I do not see 
{\lang2057 Tarttak.}}\u8221\'94{\lang2057   \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 He}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s, um}\u8230\'85\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Edmund
}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s Centaur guardian was, of course, still standing guard outside
 Edmund}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s empty chamber.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 He}\u8217\'92
{\lang1033 s, um, doing something else,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Edmund declared firmly
, resolving not to be intimidated by the huge, frighteningly powerful creature.\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Belrath
 looked unconvinced.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}The fairy said you have some information
 concerning the High Queen{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s disappearance you will only impart
 to me,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he said.  The tone of stretched patience his voice 
suggested that he was expecting some trivial observation or childish suggestion  
from the young King which he would have to courteously, and time-wastingly, dismiss
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I know where Susan is,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Edmund declared, annoyed
 that the Centaur should treat him so disrespectfully while Peaseblossom was watching
 and determined to put the creature in its place.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 I went 
and consulted the Oracle, the Deep Magic thing, and he told me that I knew where
 Susan is, but would only know if you did your greatest wish.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 A great
 stillness came over the man-horse and the look he gave Edmund made the boy want
 to run away and hide.  But Peaseblossom was watching.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Did the fairy put you up to this?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  the Centaur
 asked coldly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Don}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t you want to find Susan?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
 Edmund flared back, butterflies the size of eagles in his stomach as he faced up
 to the huge man-horse.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Belrath
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s face darkened in anger and he snorted.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}The Deep Magic is a chancy tool,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he said with soft anger.  
{\lang5129\u8220\'93}It has a habit of turning to its own use those who would use
 it.  Has your majesty already forgotten the lesson of the White Witch, when you
 arrived?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 remembered.  The White Witch had thought she was using the Deep Magic to gain her
 victory over Aslan and so she was, but it had turned and bitten her on the bum. 
Badly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 But for good or evil, it is done,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Belrath 
said darkly.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 And your motives were no doubt good, which may
 play a part.  Tell me what it said.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 was no better at remembering a conversation verbatim than are most people.  \par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Er, he said that I knew where my sister was, but would only know 
if you did your biggest wish.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8216
\'91{\lang1033 The words, boy.  The actual words,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Belrath
 growled.  \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Being
 called {\lang5129\u8216\'91}boy{\lang5129\u8217\'92} by the Centaur with Peaseblossom
 watching rankled deeply within King Edmund, yet he accepted the man-horse{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s point that the actual words might be important and struggled to remember
 what the tutor had actually said.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 He went like this,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Edmund emulated being shot
 at by two fingers and saw that the Centaur didn}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t understand
.  After all, there were no six-shooters, nor cowboys, in Narnia so how could he
?  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 And said that the knowledge was in my head but I would 
only understand when you did your greatest wish.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 He 
could tell that the Centaur was far from satisfied.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Did it
 refer to me by name?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  Belrath asked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Er, no,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund said, struggling to remember
.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 On his return my King said that the {\i Haruspex} made reference 
to the Queen}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s horseman,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Peaseblossom
 offered cautiously from where she hovered in a corner.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Yes, that was it,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Edmund jumped onto it eagerly
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 He said that I wouldn}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t have to pay
 the price, the Queens horseman would.  And you could decide whether or not to pay
 it.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Belrath
 ignored the fairy but nodded slowly as though accepting what Edmund said.  {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}It would be just,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he said, largely to himself Edmund
 suspected.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}For the High Queen was lost while in my care.{
\lang5129\u8221\'94}  His eyes speared Edmund on his spot.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}And what was the price I must choose whether or not to pay?  Give me its exact 
words.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Placed
 on the spot Edmund realised he couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t remember the exact 
words used by the professor but he frowned with concentration.   {\lang5129\u8220
\'93}He said that in order for me to know what had been put in my head you had to
 do your greatest desire.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 sharp hiss of the Centaur{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s indrawn breath slashed across the
 room and the man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s body in the horse{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s 
torso drew up to its full height, making Edmund step nervously back two paces.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Forgive me, my King,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  put in Peaseblossom from
 her corner in a very careful voice indeed.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 But when you 
spoke of it earlier you said that the Centaur}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s price related
 to his greatest wish.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Yes,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund  said quickly.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033
That was it.  Your greatest wish.  Anyway what}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s the difference
 between your greatest wish and your greatest desire?  They}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
re the same, aren}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t they?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Are they?,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  asked the Centaur through clenched
 teeth in a voice of steel, and it was steel honed to a very sharp edge indeed.  
}\u8220\'93{\lang1033 You speak of what you do not know.  So which was it? My greatest
 wish or my greatest desire?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
, who still could not see the difference between a wish and a desire, froze with
 no certain remembrance of which of the two the Oracle had said.  He saw the Centaur
 realise it and dismiss him, to turn away thinking deeply.  In the next moment into
 his mind came a clear vision of a road running through a forest beside an odd outcrop
 of rock he knew he had seen before, and he knew the road led to Susan.  He opened
 his mouth to say something but at that identical moment Belrath turned back to 
him and said with a bitter sneer, {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Sa, so you would toy with
 the Deep Magic as long as others pay the price, eh?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Furious
 at the injustice of it, for he had gone to consult the Oracle fully expecting to
 have to pay whatever the price was himself, Edmund shut his mouth with a snap.  
Belrath ignored him.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Well, my greatest wish I can fulfil,{
\lang5129\u8221\'94} he said.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}My greatest desire I cannot. 
So there is really no choice.  Yet it is not me who must pay this price, but another
.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  Edmund could see this thought troubled him, but after a 
moment he visibly shook it off.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 In any case, no price is too high to pay for the High Queen}\u8217
\'92{\lang1033 s safe return, whoever must pay it,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   the Centaur
 said firmly.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Sidhe.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   He half-turned
 in the direction of Peaseblossom yet still did not fully acknowledge her, Edmund
 noticed.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 For the High Queen}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s sake, 
would you bring the pony Eilian to me?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 noticed a look of surprise cross the tiny fairy{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s face and 
then, unmoving, she turned questioning eyes to him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Please, Peaseblossom?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund asked, puzzled
 by the exchange.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Could you do that?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 As my King commands,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   the little fairy said
 instantly and zipped out of the room.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I}\u8230\'85{\lang1033   Who}\u8230\'85{\lang1033 . What did you 
call her?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Edmund asked the massive man-horse, his curiosity
 overcoming his caution.  For a moment he did not think he was going to get an answer
.  Then Belrath said, }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Sidhe,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  which sounded
 like Sithee.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 It is her title, whether or not she deserves
 it.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Her title?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  echoed Edmund.  He was astonished
 to discover that his little Peaseblossom had a title.  And furthermore it was clearly
 an important one the mighty Centaur clearly did not think she deserved.  He realised
 he had just discovered there was a lot more he needed to discover. Belrath}\u8217
\'92{\lang1033 s attitude, though, clearly indicated that he did not wish to discuss
 the matter further.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I see,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  said Edmund, who didn}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
t.  }\u8216\'91{\lang1033 And this pony, what did you call it?  Why do you want 
it?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Her name is Eilian,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Belrath said icily.  }
\u8220\'93{\lang1033 She is my daughter.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 decided to keep his mouth shut.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 A short
, uncomfortable time passed.  Something had happened, Edmund knew, which  had already
 unlocked the knowledge of his elder sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s whereabouts in
 his mind for the picture of the road was still clear in his head and summoning 
him onwards.  Yet what that something could have been mystified him as nothing had
 actually happened, at least so far as he had seen.  He should, he knew, have already
 admitted it to Belrath so that Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s rescue could be put 
in motion and every moment he delayed was a moment more that she was left at the
 mercy of her captors, yet what was happening was so fascinating that he wanted 
to see it through to the end and his dislike of the arrogant man-horse was so intense
 that he was very reluctant to let the Centaur off the horn he was clearly and uncomfortably
 caught on.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 A light
 clopping sounded from the passageway outside, for only the fighting centaurs were
 steel-shod, and a pretty centaur filly slipped into the room.  Early in his reign
 Edmund had been fascinated by the female centaurs who worked in the stables, caring
 for the ordinary dumb horses who had their uses in and around Cair Paravel, for
 apart from his sisters they were the only girl-like things around the Palace.  
There were, he thought, about twenty of them and they were all young because, he
 had discovered, the older female centaurs lived on the grassy fields of Elysium
 where the centauromachy was based, bringing up their foals and nurturing the herd
 which was, he had been told, matriarchal whatever that meant.  They were far smaller
 than the male fighting centaurs, pony-sized in fact, and with their horse bodies
 hidden behind a wall could have passed for an ordinary girl.  A seven-foot-tall
 girl, admittedly, but from waist up just like any other and as this bit had become
 an object of intense interest to Edmund he had initially spent quite a lot of time
 spying on them.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 one called Eilian he saw was the one he had already singled out as the prettiest
.  Her human part looked to be Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s age or a little older
 with flowing golden hair down her back like a mane, a lovely laughing face, high
 proud breasts beneath the flimsy tunic they all wore and a slim waist connecting
 to the shoulders of her pony body.  This was also always totally covered with a
 light cream-and-chocolate coloured horse blanket which flowed over her withers, 
back and flanks to all four knees, with only a long, silky tail the colour of honeyed
 ice-cream (a Narnian speciality) projecting from the back.  To his intense regret
 Edmund had never had the opportunity for a good look at what they had beneath their
 silken tunics, nor found out if beneath their tails they were anything like the
 dumb female horses who pulled Cair Caravel{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s carts and carriages
 and went around quite naked.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Entering
 the room she looked once at her father, her eyes wide, curtseyed prettily to Edmund
, avoiding his eyes, and then stood meekly with her head down.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Father,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  she whispered.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Belrath
 moved, passing behind her and closing the door quietly.  Then he moved to stand
 beside her, dwarfing the little pony that she seemed to be when compared with the
 powerful stallion that was her father.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Eilian, I do this for the High Queen,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund
 heard him whisper.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 lovely girl{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s face looked confused and she opened her mouth
 to speak but without warning her father suddenly wound his hand into her hair and
 pulled her head back until her Adam{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Apple protruded white
 through the stretched skin of her neck and she gurgled in distress.  With his other
 hand Belrath seized an handful of the sheet draping her body, and pulled it violently
 forward.  Edmund, shocked motionless, heard it rip around her tail and then Belrath
 flung it over her horse shoulders where it slipped in a heap around her forelegs
 and hung from her young girl{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s waist, revealing a sleek, fragile
-looking pony body covered with fine, shining golden hair.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Eilian
 was choking and struggling to breath, her hands at the end of long, slender arms
 desperately trying to reach her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hand twisted in her
 hair as it cruelly bent her head back.  The posture thrust her breasts taut against
 her tunic and as the cover slipped from her back it dragged the tunic askew allowing
 a small but perfect breast to pop out of its loose centre parting.  Edmund{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s prick stiffened at the sight.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28   With
 his front legs almost alongside his daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Belrath{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s massive body was at least three feet longer than her delicate pony{
\lang5129\u8217\'92}s one and in a smooth, powerful movement he reared above and
 then over her, landing the weight of his horse chest on her back.  Eilian staggered
 under her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s weight yet braced herself against it as, 
releasing her hair, he wrapped his arm around her throat and squeezed even as he
 placed his other hand on her forehead and held it braced back again his chest, 
making her gargle for breath.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28  Belrath
, as with all the male fighting centaurs, went bare-chested but wore a sort of cape
 from his human shoulders which fell down his human back and then swept over his
 whole horse body, including the tail, down as far as his knees like the cloak of
 a medieval knight.  Watching utterly baffled by what he was witnessing Edmund saw
 that the centaur{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s great penis had extended from his body, 
just as the young King had seen a dumb horse do in their children{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s early days in Cair Paravel.  It was as long as a man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}
s arm and almost as thick with small flattened bulge at the end, and it grew and
 stiffened beneath the great centaur{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s body very impressively
, unwittingly stroked and caressed by the flicking hairs of his daughter{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s tail as she flicked it in her panic.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Whether
 her tail warned her what was to come or she just guessed what her father was doing
 Edmund never knew, but suddenly the lovely filly froze.  Belrath surged forward
, his chest pressing to his daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s back and his hands, releasing
 her head, wrapped around her body to crush her to him.  Eilian grabbed one great
 whooping breath with her lovely breasts heaving and then her father humped his 
back and drove his great penis up under her tail and into her body.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 filly was carrying much of her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s weight on her back 
for Belrath{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s forelegs were not quite long enough to reach down
 past his daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s to the ground. As her father{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s huge penis rammed into her she staggered forward and nearly fell to her knees
 but then she braced herself, squared her shoulders and shifted her back legs for
 better balance under him, her little white hooves no bigger than Edmund{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s fists scraping slightly on the stone flags of the floor as her father
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hindquarters rammed against hers.  Watching breathless and
 fascinated Edmund saw her lovely eyes and mouth open wide with amazement as her
 father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s prick drove deep inside her, then her mouth slowly
 closed and her eyes glazed over as she clearly surrendered to the sensations she
 was having.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 After
 a very short time, as it seemed to Edmund, Belrath jammed his stomach against his
 daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s tail, the muscles of his flanks spasmed and Edmund
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s prick twitched as it seemed to receive echoes of the delights
 woken in the man-horse{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s massive prick as his hot sperm flooded
 down it into his daughter{\lang5129\u8216\'91}s pony body.  Then he relaxed and
 his arms unwrapped from his panting golden daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s torso
.  Gently he leaned down to nuzzled the honey hair on top of her head and kissed
 it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Forgive me, child,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund heard him whisper
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 It was necessary and I could not offer you the choice, 
for the price was mine to pay.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   His eyes lifted to meet Edmund
}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s fascinated gaze.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Has the knowledge
 been revealed to you,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he asked coldly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Er, yes,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund told him.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033
I know where we must go.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Telling the huge creature that it
 had not been necessary for him to rape his own daughter in order for the information
 to be revealed did not seem wise.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Father?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   The girl part of the centaur-filly
 took her father}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s arms in her hands and wrapped them around
 her again.  She was still carrying much of her father}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s weight
 on  her back and although Edmund could not see it her father}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
s penis still had to be buried deep in her.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 I don}\u8217\'92
{\lang1033 t understand.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Belrath
 had to bow his head slightly to kiss her hair again and his hands gentled her breasts
, for her tunic had been pulled open during their mating and both were now exposed
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 King Edmund, desperate for the safe rescue of the High Queen, risked
 a consultation with the {\i Haruspex }of the Deep Magic.  The knowledge he sought
 was placed in his mind, to be revealed only if I, who failed the High Queen, fulfilled
 my greatest wish.  Do you remember the story of Kantauros and Nessus, child?}\u8221
\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Yes father. Of course.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   The filly}\u8217\'92
{\lang1033 s voice was soft and warm.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 You do not know it all, child.  Before our foal is born Chiron will
 tell you the rest for it is now meet that you know it.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Yes father.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   There was a deep curiosity in 
the filly}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s sweet voice.  She did not, Edmund noticed, seemed
 surprised or alarmed at her father}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s announcement that she
 was now going to bear their foal, and had taken quite calmly the revelation that
 to mate with her had been her father}\u8216\'91{\lang1033 s greatest wish.  Had
 she already known, he wondered?\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Belrath
 slipped backwards off his daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s back, his penis slipping
 out of her horse{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s vagina with an audible slurp.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Now with King Edmund}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s assistance I must rescue
 the High Queen, and can delay no more.  Fare you well, daughter.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Fare you well, father,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  she responded, a huge
 sadness in her voice puzzling Edmund.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 My liege?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Belrath was waiting impatiently 
by the door for him.  Putting to one side the fresh mysteries he saw before him 
he gave a grin he instantly knew had been a stupid one to the girl-horse before 
him, who was trying to make something of the wreckage of her clothes.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Majesty,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  she acknowledged him, curtseying again
.  Her eyes were shining, her golden coat was glowing and the courtesy did the most
 wonderful things to her breasts.  She seemed utterly unperturbed that Edmund had
 just watched her be mated by her father.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Awed
, totally confused and uncomfortably belittled by her composure he tried to walk
 past her in a suitably royal manner but had to admit to himself that it was more
 like a scurry.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Once
 out of the room Belrath set a fast pace towards Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s War
 Room and Edmund had to trot to keep up.  Peaseblossom floated effortlessly at his
 side.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 What was all that about?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he hissed at her.\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I will explain,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  she promised quietly.  }\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 But not now.  The centaur will be very unhappy at what has transpired
, and his actions unpredictable.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Eilian didn}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t seem very unhappy,}\u8221\'94{
\lang1033  he probed.  He knew Belrath had heard it and the centaur}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
s spine jerked ramrod straight.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Tread carefully, my King,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Peaseblossom warned
 in an undertone.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Eilian does not yet understand what happened
 here today.  The consequences of this}\u8230\'85{\lang1033 ..}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
  She shook her head at the impossibility of predicting it.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033
Let us hope that it leads to the safe recovery of the High Queen, for if it does
 not}\u8230\'85\u8221\'94{\lang1033   she shook her head again.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Belrath
 clumped up the ramp leading to the War Room and Edmund followed, bracing himself
 for a confrontation with his brother.  He knew Peter would not be pleased that 
he had elected to consult the Oracle thing without reference to the High King first
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 room was a lot less crowded than it had been on his first visit and Peter was poring
 over a map spread out on the table,  with Bellerix his centaur general standing
 by his shoulder.  As Edmund entered on Belrath{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s heels he saw
 his brother lift his head.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Ah Belrath.  Where have you been?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   He didn}
\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t give the centaur time to answer, frowned crossly when he 
saw Edmund and then dismissed him.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Fairymail says the beavers
 at Beruna think it would be better to patrol the river a couple of miles downstream
 where it}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s narrower, rather than at the ford.  What do you
 think?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Belrath
 gave Peter a much deeper bow than he had Edmund which, Edmund tried to tell himself
, was only proper.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 King Edmund already knows the whereabouts of High Queen Susan and
 her assailants, my liege,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Belrath announced firmly.  }\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 We must assemble such forces as we have and make best use of that
 knowledge without delay.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s eyes switched to his younger brother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}
s and his eyebrows shot upwards.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Ed?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he asked.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Is this
 true?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 opened his mouth but his voice stuck in his throat. After a silent moment Belrath
 spoke for him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 King Edmund in his wisdom sought this knowledge of the Deep Magic
 and it was granted to him.  Delay only adds to the High Queen}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
s torments.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 straightened up hurriedly.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Where is she?{\lang5129\u8221\'94
} he asked, his eyes fixed on Edmund.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I}\u8230\'85{\lang1033   I don}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t know,}\u8221
\'94{\lang1033   Edmund stammered.  He was much happier when his big brother ignored
 him as he usually did.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 What?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   A flare of annoyance and impatience 
crossed Peter}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s face.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Belrath said you
 did.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I do}\u8230\'85{\lang1033  And I don}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t}\u8230
\'85\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund tried to explain.  Somehow Peter always made him
 fell like a little child again even when he knew he wasn}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t
 any more.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 I don}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t know where she is
, but I know how to get to her.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 How?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  his brother barked.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 The North Road.  There}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s some funny rocks beside
 it.  I remember them from that time we went to visit Puddleglum.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 saw Peter hesitate and knew his elder brother was far from convinced.  He was well
 aware that he had invented true-sounding stories many times at their home in England
, and stuck to them stubbornly, just to get the attention of adults and keep it 
for a while for otherwise his elders and his twin, being a girl, seemed to get it
 all.  And north of Cair Paravel had to be the least likely place for trolls that
  have kidnapped a High Queen in Kingsbridge far to the south to be, which perhaps
 made it a lot more likely that{\lang5129\u8216\'91}s where they would be.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I have every faith it is as King Edmund says,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
 Belrath announced solemnly.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 And while the Deep Magic may
 pursue its own purposes rather than ours, it does not lie.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 saw Peter accept that when he didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t trust his own brother.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Do you know how many the High Queen}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s captors
 are?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Bellerix snapped impatiently from Peter}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
s side. }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 My liege,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  the imposing old centaur
 added rather belatedly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Thirty-eight,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund responded instantly, the
 answer seeming to pop into his mind unsought.  \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 He 
saw Bellerix wince.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Sire,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he turned to
 Peter.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Trolls in their own country, underground that is, 
are fierce and strong fighters.  A giant might perhaps tackle one face to face, 
but it would take two centaur to subdue one, and five dwarves.  And even a half-
pack of hounds would take dire injuries bringing one down.  Thirty-eight of the 
brutes is a terrible strength to tackle.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Horrrr.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Gnawgrim was an ancient short- and
 bad-tempered dwarf with only one and a half arms who notionally commanded the dwarven
 armies, though each one tended to act with a lamentable degree of independence 
in the field.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Gi}\u8217\'92{\lang1033  me a day an}\u8217
\'92{\lang1033  I}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 ll have five-hunnerd dwarves here with}\u8217
\'92{\lang1033 n their axe}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s a}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 thirsten
 for trolloc blood.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Dwarves and trolls occasionally clashed
 in their underground realms, and the dwarves usually came off worst.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 A day?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Peter whispered, visibly appalled.  
}\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Every hour counts.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Suddenly
 Edmund saw that his big brother had made a mistake.  Desperate to find Susan he
 had scattered his forces all over Narnia and now that he needed them quickly, didn
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t have them to command.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 It will need several hours to recall the army,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
 Bellerix offered hastily.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 But it}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 ll
 have been travelling for hours when they get back here and will  to rest up and
 ready itself to go north.  Perhaps two hundred dwarves and thirty centaurs.}\u8221
\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 But then we wouldn}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t be starting }\u8216\'91
{\lang1033 til after midday,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Peter exclaimed.  }\u8220\'93
{\lang1033 How far is it?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he asked Edmund directly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 shrugged.  The answer to that question wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t given him.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 rounded on Bellerix.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}How many can we take now?  Immediately
.  The others can follow.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 centaur opened and closed his mouth slowly, thinking.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}My 
Liege, if we strip the castle?  Fifty dwarves, ten centaur including those by your
 side, two giants, two hound packs, maybe a dozen fawns and gnomes from the kitchens
 and infirmary who can handle a short-bow badly. No more. Not enough to tackle thirty
-eight trolls.  And it would leave Cair Paravel defenceless.{\lang5129\u8221\'94
}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 threw his head back in despair.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Majesty.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Peaseblossom reluctantly floated 
forward to Edmund}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s side.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 There may 
be faerie nearby where your armies are passing who could pass your wishes on to 
them.  You could direct those within reach to assemble at a point in the north, 
of your choosing.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Is that possible?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Hope bloomed in Peter}\u8217
\'92{\lang1033 s voice. \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Sire,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   the little fairy looked uncomfortable
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Those of my sisters who are asleep }\u8216\'91{\lang1033
neath the snow-boughed whitethorn or gazing entranced at the dew-bowed cowslip, 
weaving lazy tatters from the thorn-plucked teasel or}\u8230\'85\u8221\'94{\lang1033
 As though sensing Peter}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s impatience she amended hurriedly
, }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Similarly engaged, might be open to my thoughts if urgent
 enough.  Yet I must know where to set the rendezvous.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Edmund?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Peter said.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I don}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t know.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Edmund 
wailed.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 I just keep seeing this picture.  I know it}\u8217
\'92{\lang1033 s the North Road, in the forest.  And there}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s
 these funny outcrops of rock alongside the road that I know I}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
ve seen before, but}\u8230\'85{\lang1033 .  I mean}\u8230\'85{\lang1033 .}\u8221
\'94{\lang1033   He waved a helpless hand over map.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 I}\u8217
\'92{\lang1033 ll know it when I see it,}\u8217\'92{\lang1033  he finished lamely
.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 threw his hands into the air.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}That{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s 
useless, Ed,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he exploded.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 A tiny
 hand rested lightly on Edmund{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s brow.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}Picture me the place,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} the little fairy said quietly.  He did
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 King Edmund}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s seeing is strong,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
 Peaseblossom announced, to Edmund}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s joy.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033
I know the place.  I must withdraw for the sending, but will do what I can.  Yet
 I cannot foretell what success I will have.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   She bowed deeply
 to Peter, equally deeply to Edmund which pleased him, and was gone.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Who do we have up there?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Peter asked.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Sire, we have the Deep Delvers from Dwimmermere working their way
 along the cliff-top with Brack}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s pack as scouts and trackers
.  They are likely to have only made three miles or so,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Bellerix
 stated with confidence.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Ealan with his herd-brothers will
 be galloping north along the road to patrol to the west of the marsh and close 
off Ettinsmoor as your Highness ordered and they will be a dozen miles gone or more
.  Your Highness sent Digby}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s Diggers to support Ealan and 
at dwarf-trot may have made five miles by now.  If they can be turned back it would
 double our numbers, though leave a great gap to the north if Ettinsmoor and the
 Wild Lands of the North are where the trolls with Her Majesty are heading.\par}
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 To the north west are four hound packs to watch the gap between Beruna
 and the source of the Shribble and it will take a day yet for the dwarf companies
 from Beruna, Miras and the Lantern Waste to gather and move into position to close
 it off.  But if my Liege withdraws the hounds the way to the Marches of the Underland
 will be open and unguarded when night falls.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   The hoary old
 centaur gave Edmund a dark, suspicious glance.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Ignoring
 it, Edmund watched his big brother agonise.  Did he believe Edmund at all?  If 
he did, did he believe the Deep Magic had give his little brother the right information
?  Even if it was the right information was the Deep Magic, which the Narnians about
 him clearly mistrusted, playing some devious game of its own? Did he strip Cair
 Paravel of all its defences and pull away everything he had watching for the very
 likely move to the North during the night by the trolls holding Susan, and possibly
 face a powerful, savage enemy on its own ground with hopelessly inadequate forces
, merely on the strength of Edmund{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s rather suspect claims?  
Edmund knew that all Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s experience of his little brother
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s actions to date would be arguing strongly against it.  Edmund
 himself harboured doubts, and a real fear they would arrive at the place on the
 road he was so strongly picturing and nothing would happened - that he would stand
 there with Peter, Susan and a small army depending on him and he wouldn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t have a clue what to do next.  Almost as bad was the fear that he would
 indeed be able to lead them right to the place where Susan was, and that he would
 find himself facing a sizeable pack of blood-thirsty trolls with nothing around
 him but a few dogs, albeit talking ones the size of wolves, and a dwarf or two.  
His stomach turned over at the prospect and he felt a sudden powerful urge to deny
 the whole thing and admit that he made it all up, just so that he could stay in
 the safety of the great castle.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 My Liege,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Belrath said suddenly from his side
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 The knowledge King Edmund has gained was purchased at a
 price.  A price I and my kin have paid.  If you do not act on it the price becomes
 worthless.  The consequences of that for Narnia could be dire.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 opened his mouth, clearly intending to ask for more information, but Belrath beat
 him to it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 We do not have time, Sire.  You must decided on the instant.}\u8221
\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 For
 a moment more Peter stared at him.  Then he said, {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Right.  
Bellerix, your cooks will have to guard the castle.  I want everyone else ready 
to leave in half-an-hour.  Ed, you{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d better go and find Tarttak
, and get your armour on.  You might need both.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 felt himself pale.  Peter turned away from him.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Is there 
a Pegasus still in the Castle, or are they all out on the search?{\lang5129\u8221
\'94} he asked generally.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Sire,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   a gnome aide piped up from the shadows
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 The Pegasus Duneldyn is in the Castle still.  A sole bruised
 in landing prevents him flying.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Tell him that if the castle is attacked while we are away I will 
look to him to carry Queen Lucy to safety, bruised foot or not.  Is that understood
?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Yes, Sire.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  The aide darted away.  Despite himself
 Edmund felt a spurt of admiration for his elder brother, who could be quite kingly
 at times.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Edmund, for heaven}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s sake get going,}\u8221\'94
{\lang1033  Peter snapped at him angrily and, resentfully, Edmund turned and fled
.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 There
 was an no sign anywhere of Peaseblossom and an awkward moment when he arrived outside
 his suite to face Tarttak when he was supposed to be safely within it.  The Centaur
 visibly bristled but Edmund said sharply, {\lang5129\u8220\'93}We{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}re riding with King Peter and the Army to rescue Queen Susan in half an hour
.  You{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d better get yourself ready.  Then he dashed past the
 man-horse into the safety of his reception room where Brock with half a dozen more
 servants who had been waiting for him to emerge from the privacy of his bedroom
 within, were startled to attention.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Brock, I}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 m going to war.  I need my armour,}
\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he announced a lot more bravely than he felt.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Yes, Sire.  Which armour would my king wish to wear,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
 the big badger replied as though Edmund went off to war every day and twice on 
Tuesdays.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 stopped dead.  He had acquired three different suits of armour, any one of which
 a medieval knight would have given his sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s virginity for
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Top
 of the range was his full plate.  It was tough enough to stop anything in Narnia
 and probably most things the German Army could have thrown at him.  It also weighed
 a ton, or so it seemed, and reduced his movements to the speed of the average tortoise
.  It became stifling hot inside after a very short time and soon after that began
 dripping his own sweat back onto him.  Vision through the helmet{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s visor was like looking through a keyhole with the key still in it and it 
took two giants or a crane to get him onto a horse when he was wearing it.  For 
ceremonial occasions it was splendid but he knew that for chasing trolls about the
 countyside on horseback (or, more likely, running away from trolls whether on horseback
 or not) it would very likely be a liability.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 His
 splint mail was a lot lighter and would still stop most things apart from a cross
-bow bolt at point-bank range or a sneaky dagger sliding in under any of its many
 joints.  It was, though, still heavy enough to make staying on top of a moving 
horse a constant battle with the forces of gravity and its many bits clashing together
 sounded like a sack full of kettles rolling down a flight of stone stairs.  Despite
 this it still might have done had not the time it took to locate those same many
 bits about his person and then lace, tie or hook them together, been far longer
 than he knew Peter would be prepared to wait.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 The chain,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he said, having run out of options
.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 His
 chain-mail was like a short-sleeved knee-length night-gown with a hood made entirely
 out of tiny steel rings painstakingly knitted together by a dozen dwarfish smiths
 for an entire fortnight.  Although an arrow from long-bow at short range could 
pierce it, and a cross-bow bolt both pierce it and come out the other side, it could
 stop an arrow from a  short bow at long range and could turn a blow from a sword
 or an axe into the eqivalent of a blow from a mace so that it would only pulp his
 flesh and break his bones instead of actually slicing bits off him.  As such it
 was better than nothing, but he was denied even that when it was discovered that
 he had grown since the mail had been made for him ten months before and he could
 no-longer get into it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 A horn
 sounded impatiently from outside and he flung the mail aside in despair.  The leather
 undersuit intended to stop the links chafing his skin would have to do.  His white
 surcoat with the heavily embroidered {\lang5129\u8217\'92}ER{\lang5129\u8217\'92
} on its breast was flung over his head, his sword belt was buckled around his waist
 and the sword in its scabbard clipped onto it.  As there was nothing else available
 he grabbed the felt cap intended to go under the plate{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s massive
 helmet, crammed it on his head and pelted from the room.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Tarttak
 was waiting outside and clattered at his heels as he ran through the castle, trying
 to keep the sword from tangling with his legs.  In the tiltyard Peter{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s scraped-together army was waiting, the fifty dwarves mounted awkwardly
 on dumb horses under the control of the centaurs, the two giants who were not much
 more intelligent than the dumb horses standing to one side waiting for someone 
to tell them what to do and the packs of questionably intelligent, slavering war
-dogs waiting for someone to loose them.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Under
 Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s impatient gaze Edmund scrambled onto his horse at the
 head of the cavalcade and had to snatch at his saddle for balance as Peter clattered
 off before he had found his stirrups.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 clatter of three-hundred hooves vibrated in his skull as the procession passed 
though the short enclosed avenue from the tilt-yard and then, just as he managed
 to get himself organised, it emerged into the Great Square fronting the Palace.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Word
 had, it appeared, done the rounds and all Narnia seemed to be there to see them
 off, waving and cheering.  A road down to the Great Gate had been left for them
 and Edmund couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t help sitting more upright and trying harder
 to look the part as the little force clattered bravely and importantly down it 
and the cheering rolled over them all.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Then
, on the Palace Steps, he saw his twin sister.  Cory was nearby, trying not to look
 too envious as his fellow centaurs clattered off on their desperate rescue mission
 but Lucy was standing alone, small and forlorn in the middle of the wide span.  
At the sight his prick rose in his leather trousers and he had a sudden acutely 
vivid memory of his little sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s body soft and rounded under
 his, and of his prick sliding hotly back and forth in the wonderful opening between
 her legs that he didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t have.  He recalled the incredibly sweet
 joy of pumping his seed into that little, so vulnerable body and as his heart gave
 a painful thump he felt a sudden, powerful, unexpected and uncharacteristic desire
 to{\lang5129\u8230\'85} what?  To protect that little white body.  To cherish it
.  To love it, he realised with something akin to dismay.  His eyes misted over 
with tears and he raised his hand in a wave to his twin but she didn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t respond.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Then
 Peter, just ahead of Edmund and leading the cavalcade, raised his hand in solemn
 salute to Lucy and Edmund saw her grow a little taller and a little white hankie
 flutter a fervent response in her hand.  She only had eyes for Peter, he realised
, and had probably not noticed her twin in his wake at all.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 What
 had been a glow of unusual affection for his twin sister became a hot pang of anguish
 which twisted his heart.  Peter again.  Always Peter.  Lucy opening herself to 
his prick joyfully, Susan probably warmly and willingly though not with Lucy{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s enthusiasm.  And Edmund last and least.  Always outside.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 column clattered through the streets of Cair Paravel at the trot, Edmund bouncing
 uncomfortably in the saddle as he had never bothered to learn to ride properly, 
but as soon as they had crossed the causeway and tuned onto the North Road where
 the stone paving ended and the road became raw earth Peter stretched the pace out
 to a easy canter which Edmund found more comfortable.  With the ease of much practice
 Edmund shrugged into his loneliness again and let the pain of his twin sister{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s indifference soak into his soul to leave a familiar residue of bitterness
 in his heart and mouth. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 road led north through the broad forests of Narnia, sometimes within sight of the
 sea but more often not.  Within an hour the column came across the Deep Delvers
 of Dwimmermere and Brack{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s pack of talking war dogs by the 
road where, they said, they had been directed by the High King{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s orders relayed by a fairy who had delivered them and then drifted off in pursuit
 of a butterfly.  The twenty-five dwarves and fifteen wolf-sized dogs were a welcome
 boost to the expedition{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s numbers although the dwarves, not
 being mounted, had to double up with some of their brethren on the horses.  After
 the shortest possible break Peter led them on.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Lunchtime
 came and went without a stop and Edmund, who had missed breakfast as well, grew
 hungrier, more uncomfortable and more frightened.  Rocky outcrops started appearing
 beside the road, and Peter began turning to him frequently, asking, {\lang5129\u8220
\'93}Is this the place?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  After the first half-dozen or so times
 of Edmund shaking his head in denial he saw doubts begin to appear in his big brother
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s eyes.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Little
 whispers of temptation tickled at his mind that he pretend not to see the place
 even when he did.  Poor Susan was probably already dead, for she had been in the
 hands of the trolls for hours and hours and hours and they were not noted for taking
 their time in disposing of their prisoners, nor taking them away with them.  In
 fact they invariable left the bits behind.  They had nothing to do with Narnia 
nor its rulers and Edmund knew Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s fervent hope that perhaps
 they were just going to hold Susan for ransom had been reluctantly deflated by 
his advisors, who told him that with the sensibilities of pigs and any number of
 gold and diamond mines in their underground realm they had no need of cash or anything
 else Narnia might have to offer, except perhaps as participants in entertainments
 of an extremely sadistic nature.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 If 
Edmund chose to recognise a different piece of road with rocky outcrops he could
 lead them into the forest until they stumbled across some likely-looking spot were
 he could say his vision had said the trolls should be.  That they weren{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t his fault.  Perhaps the Deep Magic had it
 wrong.  Perhaps it had lied.  Perhaps they were suppose to wait there in ambush
 all night but somehow the trolls had seen them and slipped past.  Perhaps{\lang5129
\u8230\'85} Well, it was a terrible thing but terrible things happen in fairy tales
.  Especially in fairy tales.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
, of course, would not see that Edmund had saved him and his silly little army from
 being wiped out and would blame him as usual, and loath him as usual.  Lucy would
 be inconsolable but would still let Peter shag her, probably twice as often because
 Susan wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t there for Peter to shag any more, but there would
 be no real change there either.  He could go on playing with Peasblossom{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s little fanny and squirting into her mouth and spying on his brother
 and sister and eating his favourite foods and finding out what was really going
 on in Cair Paravel and best of all he would still be alive to never get on a horse
 again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Then
 the expedition, weary but purposeful and determined with the exception of Edmund
, cantered up a short rise and when the road levelled out at the top Edmund saw 
the picture in his head laid out before him.  His heart leapt, then sank as he saw
 that his hopes of being able to ignore the place were lost.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peaseblossom
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s message had clearly reached the local fairy population because
 both Digby{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Diggers and Ealan with his centaur followers, 
were drawn up and waiting. At least one pack of war-dogs was also there, lying on
 the grass beside the road and panting heavily with their tongues hanging out.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 This is it,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he called out unnecessarily, deciding
 to at least show willing.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 At 
least the enlarged  force seemed to Edmund to present a better prospect of being
 able to tackle the task in hand.  On paper and using Bellerix{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s ratios they were the equivalent of fifty-six-and-a-half trolls against the thirty
-eight Edmund himself had said they were up against.  However as he had no idea 
where that number had come from and therefore no reason to think it was correct 
there could just as well be eighty trolls ahead of them.  Furthermore what no-one
 had yet said but what Edmund had worked out for himself was that if they had to
 go underground to find the trolls, as was highly likely, there was no guarantee
 that the giants and centaurs would be able to stay with them, for neither creature
 was built for scrambling around in caves.  This would reduce the strength of the
 army to the equivalent of forty trolls, which put the forces on unpleasantly equal
 terms if Edmund{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s intelligence was right.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 called a short halt while the army reorganised and Edmund, achingly stiff from 
the saddle, grabbed some bread, cheese and sour dwarven beer which was all there
 was on offer.  Far too soon Peter arrived at his elbow.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Where to now?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he asked eagerly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 need not have worried.  One direction with nothing whatever to distinguish it from
 any other had been dragging at his attention from the moment he had arrived.  They
 did not have to go that way, though.  He was aware that the whole army was watching
 him covertly, waiting to see if he really did know the way to Susan.  He had the
 power to take them the right way or the wrong way.  Whichever way he pointed the
 mass of hairy, brown-clad dwarves, the aloof, condescending centaurs, panting, 
eager war-dogs and even his big brother would all set off on whatever wild-goose
 chase he sent them on.  Although he had been a King in Narnia for nearly a year
 he had for the first time some real power which even High King Peter was subservient
 to.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 And
 real power, a voice said in his mind, would be to send them the wrong way.  Choosing
 the right way was the right thing to do, which was a surrender of power.  If you
 always did the right thing what real power did you have?  What you did was chosen
 for you and you did it as obediently as a pet poodle.  Send them the right way 
and they all including Edmund himself could be dead or, worse, wishing they were
 within a matter of hours with Susan no better off, in the unlikely event she was
 still alive.  Send them wrong and they would stumble about uselessly in the woods
 for a day but still be alive.  True, they wouldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t appreciate
 it and he would be mistrusted and despised, {\lang5129\u8216\'91}King{\lang5129
\u8217\'92} in name only, Edmund the Least and the Unloved, but he was that already
.  So why not at least grab a chance to exercise real power when it came his way
, and rub it in?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Because
 of Susan, and the faint chance that she might still be alive.  Suddenly he saw 
her in his mind as he had seen her through the peep-hole into her dressing room.  
Not as the imperious, eye-snapping martinet of a High Queen she worked so hard at
 being when anyone was watching, but as a weary, pretty, troubled fourteen-year-
old girl who had been bleeding from a wound between her legs all day without showing
 it, and who was his sister.  That she should shag with her older brother but not
 her younger still rankled deeply with Edmund but most of his loathing in that regard
 was directed towards Peter who must somehow have persuaded his sister to let him
 do it to her, for Edmund could not imagine Susan initiating sexual relations with
 her brother. And perhaps, maybe, if he played his cards right, and was the hero
 of her rescue, she might accept that he, Edmund, was old enough to do it to her
 too so that he as well as Peter would know the firm smoothness of those blossoming
 breasts and the hot clasp of her cunt around his prick.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 That way,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he said, pointing in the right direction
 and wilting to the imagined sensation of his prick in his big sister}\u8217\'92
{\lang1033 s cunt.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Right.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Peter seemed encouraged by his confidence
 and set about giving instructions.  The dumb horses were untacked and left to graze
 beside the road, presumably with instructions left by the centaurs in their minds
 not to wander off, and in three columns within sight of each other the little Army
 entered the woods on foot, hoof and paw.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 A half
-mile into the woods they came across a swiftly running brook.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 That way,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund was sure, pointing downstream
, and the Army obediently changed its direction of travel to follow the stream.\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 They
 were moving quickly and not very cautiously.  Checking the sun through the branches
 above Edmund judged that it was already mid-afternoon, which meant there was little
 chance of the trolls being active on the surface.  As soon as the sun set in a 
few hours, though, trolls could function above ground and as they could see much
 better in the dark than even dwarves they would have a major advantage in any clash
.  Unfortunately they had the same advantage at all times underground and Edmund
 knew that Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s best hope, in fact his only real hope, was
 to find the trolls huddled in some temporary, limited shelter from the daylight
 where they could be rushed and perhaps flushed out into the open, which was the
 reason for the Army{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s haste.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hope was quickly dashed.  After another half mile of following
 the stream along a slowly deepening valley it disappeared into the wide mouth of
 a cave in a rock wall.  At Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s glance Edmund nodded regretfully
.  The cave mouth was their way.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Canine
 scouts had already found and explored inside it a little way as well as quite a
 wide area round about, and reported no trace of troll in recent weeks, which report
 clearly troubled Peter.  The army gathered around the cave mouth as dwarf scouts
 began cautiously exploring its depths.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I don}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t like it, Sire,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   
Bellerix commented.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 If you take the Army in there it would
 be all too easy for just a couple of troll to bring that lot down,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
 he nodded at the rock overhanging the cave, }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Trapping us inside
.  Yet we don}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t have the strength to leave a rear-guard here
.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 watched his fifteen-year-old brother pacing the short turf beside the stream, head
 down and agonising over the decisions he had to take like a painting Edmund had
 once seen of Napoleon before the battle of Borodino, wherever that was .  Edmund
 really, really did not want to enter the cave, entering the troll{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s home territory as it were, yet if Peter decided they were going to Edmund
 knew he would have to.  The power was back with Peter, and Edmund was glad of it
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 sighed and his head came up.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Leave three, no, five hounds
 here.  And a couple of dwarf runners.  The hounds will have to range widely, and
 if they get a sniff of the enemy the runners will have to let us know.  And we{
\lang5129\u8217\'92}ll have to try to get back in time.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}  Bellerix
 nodded.  Peter gave a humourless laugh.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 If you,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he nodded at the old campaigner}\u8217
\'92{\lang1033 s horse body, }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 And the Giants can}\u8217\'92
{\lang1033 t go where we have to you can come back and watch our rear.}\u8221\'94
{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 And
 the little army would have lost its iron fist, Edmund commented unhappily to himself
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 army filed into the cave, and a problem.  Tarttak and Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s Centaur Aldur were firm that their place was beside, or at least immediately 
behind, their royal charges while Belrath make it clear that he was not going to
 be anywhere other than in the front rank of the army.  Gnawgrim, though, pointed
 out bluntly that if the caves or passages ahead narrowed to the point that the 
massive centaurs were unable to proceed they would effectively become no better 
than corks in a bottle, with the two Kings marooned out in front and the army trapped
 behind them.  If the trolls attacked then the entire army would be helpless to 
protect the two Sons of Adam.  The truth of that could not be denied and so as a
 result when the army moved off into the cave it was with half the dwarves in front
, the two boys,  the centaurs and the hounds in the middle, the rest of the dwarves
 following them and the two giants, who did not like being underground, bringing
 up the rear.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 At 
first the cave was wide and not too low with the steam running happily along a bed
 worn down its middle.  The daylight behind them faded out of sight and one in five
 dwarves rummaged in their packs and produced everlights.  By their cool, pearly
 glow the expeditionary force pressed on as the cavern narrowed and the roof of 
the cave began lowering though intending, at its geological kind of speed, to crush
 them.  Then cavern widened again and the stream ran into a deep, still pool at 
its centre, which had no outflows.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 It 
was obviously disappearing through a drain beneath its surface which was just keeping
 pace with the inflow but Edmund could see that if the water in the stream increased
 in amount dramatically, as after heavy rain, it overflowed the pool and made its
 way out of the cave through a number of cracks and tunnels in the walls which were
 presently dry.  One of them drew him like a magnet.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 There,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   he pointed at a triangular crevice 
in the rock wall little wider than a centaur, although three times as high.  }\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 It}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s that way.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 little army piled up in the cavern as dwarf scouts and troll-scenting dogs disappeared
 into the crevice Edmund had indicated.  Several minutes later one reappeared.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Sire, the way is clear.  But we have a problem.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 new problem was that the passage, although wide enough for the centaurs and even
 the giants, dropped vertically down a sink-hole after a few hundred yards.  The
 hole was not deep, only three or four man-lengths, and the passage continued onwards
 from its base.  The rock-skilled dwarves were able to swarm down its uneven vertical
 sides with little difficulty, the two Sons of Adam would probably be able to climb
 down them with care and the giants would probably just drop down the hole but for
 the hounds and the centaurs it was impassable.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 It 
was Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s, and Edmund{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s, great fear realised
.  The centaurs and the hounds were a substantial part of the army{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s clout and to lose them would be a major blow.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Could we lower you?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Peter asked Bellerix.\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 It 
took a long time, and a lot of organisation.  The hounds made little fuss about 
being knotted into a harness and lowered down the pit by a giant but the centaurs
 hated it like fury.  Each one weighed a substantial part of a ton and their human
 arms were unable to bear the weight of their horse bodies.  So each one had to 
be bound into a much larger, stronger version of the hound{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s
 harness and then, dangling helplessly, lowered down the hole by a team of twenty
 dwarves.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 During
 the operation, with Peter chaffing uselessly at the delay, the dwarf scouts returned
 for Edmund.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Majesty, there is a maze ahead.  We need King Edmund}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
s guidance.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Reluctantly
 Edmund left the relative safety of the army and followed the scout down the tunnel
 ahead.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 tunnel grew no smaller for several hundred yards and then opened out into a huge
 space like a vast cathedral.  A thousand everlights would have made little impact
 on its immense darkness and Edmund was uncomfortably aware that a whole army of
 trolls could be hidden amid its shadows watching them, although the scouts reassured
 him that they had found no trace of trolls while the hounds scouting with them 
had scented none..\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Utterly
 terrified Edmund followed the compass the Oracle had put in his mind through the
 space of the cavern, rounding great columns stretching up into the darkness and
 skirting huge outcrops of rock.  At times he had to scramble up steep slopes of
 loose scree or slide down smooth rocky shoulders and at one point jump across a
 narrow crack which split the floor.  It would normally have been an easy jump and
 even the dwarves with him hopped casually across it, but Edmund somehow knew it
 was very, very deep and he had to screw his courage to the utmost in order to make
 the leap.  For an appalling moment he seemed to hang above the chasm imagining 
the drop beneath and his stomach turned to water, then he landed on the rock the
 other side and collapsed in a boneless heap.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Filled
 with concern and sympathy the dwarf scouts picked him up and he pointed the way
 onwards, to a low-arched cave amid many lining the walls of the cavern.  Then as
 the scouts set off into the cave he sat down on a rock and shook.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Two
 dwarves had remained with him and as time passed and nothing emerged out of the
 terrifying darkness all about him he slowly recovered the dregs of his courage, 
and made an appalling discovery.  His sense of the way they should be going was 
strong, but he had absolutely no idea of the way back through the vast cavern.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Erhm,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he swallowed and whispered.  }\u8220\'93
{\lang1033 Will anyone be able to find us here?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Oh yes,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  the dwarves with him assured him happily
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Gribble has already returned to lead the army here.}\u8221
\'94{\lang1033   Edmund sagged with relief.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Soon
 the army did begin to arrive in dribs and drabs as the bottleneck of the soakhole
 was cleared, but the scouts who had gone down the passage indicated by Edmund returned
 with more bad news.  The passage was blocked by a roof-fall.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 When
 Peter arrived and heard the news he sagged visibly.  Then he turned to Edmund.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Are you absolutely sure this is the way?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he
 asked.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 hesitated and saw Peter notice it.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Look,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he said, at the end of his tether.  }
\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Something in me is telling me that is the way.  I don}\u8217
\'92{\lang1033 t know what that something is, and because I don}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
t know what it is I can}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t trust it.  So you}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
ve got to trust me when I don}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t trust me, or you might as well
 turn round and go back to Cair Paravel now.  And the sooner the better.}\u8221\'94
{\lang1033   Then he sat down on his rock and burst into tears of fear and weariness
 and loneliness and emptiness.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Sire.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   He heard Belrath speak quietly to Peter
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 The knowledge King Edmund acquired of the Deep Magic was
 gained at a price I paid.  It was not a price the King would have known to ask, 
and the mischief it contains has the taste of the Deep Magic all through it.  The
 Deep Magic does not indulge in falsehood, for to do so would be to injure itself
, so I believe the knowledge it placed in the King}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s mind is
 true.  To know the High Queen}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s location, is of course not
 necessarily the most beneficial of information.  To know how to successfully rescue
 her would be more useful, but the shaping of a question to put to the {\i Haruspex
 }can occupy minds much older and wiser than the King}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s for
 many years and still not produce an answer free of hooks or be worth the price 
paid.  Still, I believe we must now place our trust in King Edmund, and if he says
 this is the way forward then this is the way I will go, even if I go alone.}\u8221
\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Yes.  Yes, of course.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Peter sounded deeply
 weary himself.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 I}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 m sorry, Ed,}\u8221
\'94{\lang1033  he said quietly.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 You}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
re doing a jolly fine job.  Keep it up.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Feeling slight better
 Edmund crushed his tears and Peter turned to the dwarves to work out what to do
 next.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 There
 was only one option and, rock by rock, the roof-fall began to be cleared and the
 debris passed along a chain of dwarves to pile up in Cathedral Cavern, as Edmund
 now thought of it.  Time passed with nothing to show for its passing in the darkness
 and silence except for a growing mound of rubble at the mouth of the cave.  Outside
 in the world the sun would have set which made it all too likely that the trolls
 would have abandoned their hide for the day and already be moving on in the darkness
 toward their dens in the north, while the forces which should have been patrolling
 across their path were waiting uselessly in a cavern far beneath the earth for 
a pile of rock to be moved.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 For
 Edmund realised that Belrath had been right about the importance of asking the 
right question of the Oracle, leave alone the little matter of correctly remembering
 the answer.  What surely made it even worse was that Edmund had not asked a question
 of the Oracle at all.  It  had decided the question itself.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93
}You want to know where your sister is,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he recalled the Oracle
 telling him, and this was the information he had been given.  No doubt the answer
 had been true but it only told him where his sister had been ten hours ago, which
 was not necessarily where she was now.  After all their efforts, and after Belrath
 had paid the price of doing his greatest wish, which had apparently been to rape
 his own daughter, were they only going to find an abandoned camp with the trolls
, and Susan, long gone?  Peaseblossom, and Belrath himself, had intimated that the
 price he had paid could have immense consequences for Narnia which Edmund couldn
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t even begin to guess at.  Could what Belrath did to his lovely
 golden daughter and its consequences have been the price of a worthless truth it
 would have been better not to know?  No wonder the Narnian{\lang5129\u8217\'92}
s were deeply wary of the Deep Magic.  His heart sank and he began to wonder how
 he could possibly bear being a King in Cair Paravel again, provided he ever emerged
 from those wretched caves.  And provided Belrath didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t kill
 him anyway.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 News
 emerged to the army from the tunnel that the end of the rockfall had at last been
 reached and a misguided cheer started, rapidly silenced by wiser heads.  The last
 rocks and debris from the blockage was passed down the chain and the army readied
 itself for the next move.  Then a scout emerged from the tunnel and trotted over
 to where Peter and Edmund waited.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Majesties,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he began, shooting a troubled glance
 at Edmund and a frightened one at Peter.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 The passage.  It
 is a dead end.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 groaned as though he had taken an arrow, and visibly sagged.  Then, with an effort
 he straightened.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Come on, Ed,{\lang5129\u8221\'94} he said
 quietly.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Let{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s take a look.{\lang5129
\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 News
 had also reached the army and as the two boys entered the tunnel a whispering started
 among it which Edmund knew would be about him.  Yet he knew it was the right tunnel
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 They
 passed where the rockfall had occurred and Edmund felt his skin crawl at the thought
 of the millions of tons of rock poised above him.  Another fall now would crush
 him like a beetle beneath a boot.  If it fell after he had passed it they could
 be trapped in the darkness and silence for ever.  It was all he could do to stop
 himself turning and running back down the tunnel, and he knew that once he had 
done that he would not stop until he reached the open air..\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 A few
 yards further they entered a chamber about the size of his bedchamber at Cair Paravel
.  As the drawf had promised it was a dead end.  Blank rock walls surrounded him
.  He moved into the middle of the chamber as Tarttak, Aldur, Belrath and Bellerix
 entered it behind him, followed by Gnawgrim and a small party of dwarves to join
 the few scouts still waiting in it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 pull was still strong in him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 There.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  He pointed at a wall of virgin rock.  
}\u8220\'93{\lang1033 They}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 re there.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Doubt
 and disbelief hung in the air for a moment.  Then one of the dwarf scounts crossed
 to the rock face, pressed his ear to it and gently tapped the rock with the base
 of his sword.  He lifted his head sharply.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 His majesty is correct,}\u8217\'92{\lang1033  he said as though unable
 to believe it himself.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 There is space beyond.}\u8221\'94
{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Get Gendso,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Grimgnaw ordered sharply.  }\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 He can read rock like no other,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he explained
 to the Kings.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 An 
order was passed down the stream of curious dwarves beginning to fill the passage
 behind them and eventually one appeared, having to push his way through what had
 become a packed mass.  As soon as he emerged he was pointed at the wall by Grimgnaw
.  Patiently despite King Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s obvious impatience he set 
his ear to the wall in a dozen places high and low,  tapping the rock gently. Then
 he turned to face his expectant audience.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 A cavern lies beyond.  How big?  Big.  I cannot say more.  The {\i
acilis} is thinnest here,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   he tapped a spot on the rock wall
 level with his shoulder.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 So.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  He held
 his finger and thumb up to indicate a thickness of two inches.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033
Here,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he indicated another spot and demonstrated its thickness
, slightly wider than before, and continued for a dozen more spots on the rock face
 in an area perhaps as wide as three people and as far up the rock wall as he could
 reach.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 But here?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   He indicated another
 spot just beyond the area he had outlined and held his hands three feet apart.\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Is there anyone in the cavern?}\u8217\'92{\lang1033   Peter asked
 eagerly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I could not say, Lord,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  the old dwarf replied
 with a sad shake of his head.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Big space and rock so thick
 would silence anything but old Fagelnart blowing off after beans and beer.}\u8221
\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 There
 was a suppressed titter from the dwarves packed into the tunnel but not a twitch
 from Peter who, Edmund knew, was as tense as a cocked cross-bow arm.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Can we get through?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\i\lang1033 Acilis {\i0 is as hard to break through as an }Orddicis{\i0  virgin
}}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s hymen, Lord,}\u8217\'92{\lang1033  Gendso replied, scratching
 his nose reflectively.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 It does not fracture easily and takes
 the edge of a chisle faster than a Tashbaan whore will empty your purse, and sap
 your strength as readily.  To make a hole your {\i kantori} friends could pass 
through? A good {\i g{\lang5129\u8217\'92}nire }with half-talbon}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
s would take a tenth, Lord.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Spitting
 his exasperation Peter rounded on Grimgnaw.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}What{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s he saying?{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Sire.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   The old dwarf looked alarmed.  }\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 A {\i g{\lang5129\u8217\'92}nire }is a six-head mining team and any
 ten {\i dwarvenire }can make one up, tho}\u8217\'92{\lang1033  a good one is harder
 to find.  Yet I daresay there are many here with us.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  He nodded
 at the dwarfish army crowded into the chamber and the passage beyond.  }\u8220\'93
{\lang1033 But a half-talbon is a special hammer for this type of rock and I misdoubt
 me if there is a one in this underspace for we came prepared for war, not rock-
hewing.  And war-axes are made for splitting skulls, not rock}\u8230\'85\u8221\'94
{\lang1033   He shrugged his hopelessness.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 And a tenth, sire
,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he finished for completeness, }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Is a
 tenth of a candle.  About one third part of your Cair Caravel hour.}\u8221\'94{
\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 So,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Peter groaned with despair.  }\u8220\'93
{\lang1033 Six dwarves with hammers we don}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 t have would take
 twenty minutes to open a hole in that rock big enough for a centaur to pass through
?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Aye, sire,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  the old dwarf agreed sadly. }\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Tho}\u8217\'92{\lang1033  they}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 ll be needing
 chisels as well.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 And if there any trolls in the cave beyond the wall, what will they
 be doing while we do that?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Peter asked rhetorically.\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 A heavy
, black silence fell as the magnitude of the disaster sunk in.  If they were any
 trolls in the cavern on the other side of the rock wall they would be thoroughly
 warned of the presence of Peter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s army long before the break
-through occurred and even a couple of trolls the other side of a hole the size 
the dwarves could make would happily slaughter anyone trying to pass through until
 it was blocked with dead.  Yet if there were no trolls beyond the wall they could
 be anywhere and the army that was supposed to be looking for them was stuck in 
a cramped tunnel and tiny chamber deep underground and hours from the surface.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Ashen
 in the everlight and sagging with despair Peter turned away from the dwarf general
.  Into the defeated silence came a scream.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 It 
came from beyond the rock face, muffled yet in no way softened by the intervening
 stone.  It was the scream of a girl suffering agony beyond bearing,  freezing every
 heart in the army hearing it and making hardened, grizzled dwarfish veterans want
 to weep.  Edmund, unable to bear it, clamped his hands over his ears while Peter
 swayed as though on the point of collapse.  The centaurs, always seemingly impervious
 to suffering, drew themselves up to full height and faced the dreadful sound as
 though standing up to the lash of a freezing, ice-toothed midwinter gale.  The 
scream climbed the scale to the edge of hearing and endurance and then passed beyond
 both into a realm of agony beyond mortal comprehension.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Even
 time in the cramped dead-end chamber seemed to stop.  Nothing moved, for to move
 would be to make a sound and in the silence which followed that awful scream the
 merest scrape of a boot on the stone floor, rustle of leather jerkin on a shifting
 arm, whisper of breath in a shock-dried throat, would be to diminish the absoluteness
 of the suffering they had just heard and reduce it to the mundane, while every 
ear strained into the bottomless silence dreading a repeat of the scream, for it
 would surely be impossible for anything living to bear such agony twice.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 In 
slow motion King Peter fell to his knees.  {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Susan,{\lang5129
\u8221\'94} he breathed in an agony of his own, and though as faint as the whisper
 of a butterfly{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s wings it was heard by every centaur, dwarf
 and hound in the army.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 It 
broke the spell and a dozen dwarves rushed the rock wall, hefting their axes.  Fortunately
 Grimgnaw reached it first and with Gendso{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s help stopped them
 before the first steel blade rang uselessly on the rock wall, costing the army 
the surprise it so desperately needed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Hammers.  Do we no have hammers?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Grimgnaw hissed
 desperately over the heads of the mob. }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Did no brown-arsed
 bugger among you think to bring a hammer?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 None
 had, and the press fell back slightly as it regained its senses.  Then Belrath 
was forcing his way through it, brutally forcing dwarves to either side and even
 forcing them to dodge his hooves.  The cave was crowded and he made slow progress
 but finally arrived beside Grimgnaw and Edmund at the rock face, ignoring Peter
 who was still on his knees head bowed as he contemplated the extent of his failure
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Get back,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he ordered.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033
Back.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Brushing even Edmund aside with his flanks he made 
a space for himself, swung his tail toward the rock face and let fly with both hind
 legs and every ounce of strength he possessed in his mighty hind-quarters.\par}
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Steel
-rimmed hooves with the power of a battering ram hit the rock at the exact point
 Gendso had indicated it was at its thinnest.  For a moment the rock held and the
  impact  sent a visible shockwave jarring back through Belrath{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s body.  Then the stone exploded outwards and a hole a dwarf could have crawled
 through appeared in the rock face.  Instantly Belrath kicked again, at a point 
just below the hole, and the weakened rock gave way. Two more mighty kicks opened
 the hole almost to the full width of the span indicated by Gendso, although only
 to half its height.  Then, his back-legs collapsing under him, the Centaur pulled
 himself aside from the hole.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Through
 it Edmund could see into the cavern beyond.  Yellow light from a fire flickered
 on rock faces and made shadows dance in corners.  Only yards away and to one side
 of a large outcropping of  rock a crowd of trolls, faces still turning his way 
and mouths dropping, were pressed around a low boulder with one standing between
 the slim white legs of a girl, its hips jerking in and out as it fucked her invisible
 body.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Beside
 him Peter was still on his knees, white face turned upwards as he struggled to 
catch up with events and take control.  It was a shambles, Edmund realised.  Any
 battle-plans Peter might have had, any tactics designed to make use of the advantages
 he had and exploit any weaknesses of the trolls, were useless.  One in five of 
the dwarves carried a cross-bow and were supposed to be organised in ranks that 
could fire in sequence to maintain a steady, debilitating fire on the enemy but 
instead the dwarves were mixed higgledy-piggledy and crushed so tightly in the press
 that no-one could raise a crossbow let alone fire it even if they were loaded and
 cocked which they probably weren{\lang5129\u8216\'91}t.  The hounds were supposed
 to be to the fore, running around to the flanks and rear of the enemy to confuse
 and disorganise any ranks they might try to form, but in fact were still back in
 the Cathedral Cave with the giants.  Even the Centaurs with their deadly long-bows
 and sheer terrifying presence were caught helplessly in the press of the tiny cave
 or narrow tunnel.  He, owner of three of the finest suites of armour in Narnia, 
was face-to-face with thirty-eight trolls and didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t have a 
single piece of it on. It was such a sheer, complete, utter, glorious shambles that
 a wave of pure, death-defying joy swept over Edmund and with a howl of {\lang5129
\u8220\'93}charge{\lang5129\u8221\'94} which was more laugh than word he dived through
 the hole, scrambled over the rubble and ran flat out towards the trolls.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 He 
hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t even drawn his sword and was charging them empty-handed
 he realised, and that was so funny that he gave vent to another shout of joy.  
As he sped on he noticed to his surprise that the trolls were scattering from the
 rock and backing away from him, alarm on their faces, and that was even funnier
 still.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Something
 zipped past his ear like tearing silk and the troll between the girl{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s legs, who was only just looking up to see what was going on, fell forward
 on top of her, the end of a feathered shaft protruding from his back.  Another, 
who looked as if he might be thinking of standing his ground against Edmund, reeled
 back clawing at an arrow through his throat. Behind him Edmund heard the very distinctive
 twang of a cross-bow discharge and with the extraordinary clarity and acuity of
 vision and hearing with which he seemed to be suddenly possessed he saw the bolt
 vanish into the chest of a dithering troll and burst out of his back a moment later
 in a shower of dark blood to slam into the chest of one behind him with a very 
audible thunk, dropping both big creatures like a stones.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 It 
was so wonderful that he crowed with joy.  Then his foot turned over on a fist-sized
 loose rock on the floor of the cave, a blaze of fierce pain burst from his ankle
 as it twisted, his leg gave under him and he reeled sideways, hobbling.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 And
 saw Susan.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 His
 big sister was off to one side, naked and dangling over a narrow spike of blood
-wet rock that was growing from her body like a huge, obscene third leg. Beneath
 her a particularly large and hideous troll with a cleft face was turning away from
 her to face this unexpected attack and two other trolls were standing looking puzzled
 beside and to each side of the rock.  Right in front of Edmund, though, was yet
 another troll who was holding a rope which stretched away into the darkness of 
the roof above Susan and which Edmund instantly knew was supporting her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Despite
 the agonising pain in his ankle his mind was still seemed to be working at ninety
-miles-an-hour and as smoothly as milk so that everything seemed to be happening
 around him in slow-motion.  The troll with the rope was wearing a dagger tucked
 into a belt around his waist and was already reaching for it in response to Edmund
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s appearance.  In an moment it was going to draw it and go 
for Edmund, and in doing so would let go of the rope.  And when it did that Susan
 would drop like an egg onto the point of the needle of stone between her legs.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 As 
though something else was in command of his mind and body Edmund went with the flow
 and let his momentum bounce him like a billiard ball off the big rock with a chair
 carved into it and kicked against it with his good leg to power himself away, ignoring
 the flares of pain in the other.  Somehow his sword was out although he didn{\lang5129
\u8216\'91}t remember drawing it,  and with the hilt in both hands and blade like
 a galley{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s ram in front of him he used all his weight and momentum
 to drive it through the chest of the troll holding the rope.  The troll reeled 
away, already coughing up blood with the guard of the sword hard against his chest
, but the rope was in Edmund{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hands and he felt Susan{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s dead weight on it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 She
 was thirty-two months older and just that bit heavier than her younger brother. 
The purchase provided by the hook in the roof cancelled some of the difference out
 but hissing with the pain of his wrenched ankle he had to brace himself with both
 feet and lean back against the pull of the rope, shoulders straining, to hold her
 weight.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 troll with the carved face turned to Edmund and its face took on a twisted grin
 as it drew from its belt a long, toothed dagger.  It began advancing on him and
 as half the millions of nerves in Edmund{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s body began letting
 him know in glorious Technicolor what it was going to feel like to have that awful
 dagger carving and slicing at his flesh the other millions began urging him to 
let go of the rope and run.  Wailing silently inside he raised his eyes from the
 terror approaching and found himself looking into his sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 He 
saw terror there, too.  Terror, pain and weariness, yet also hope and defiance.  
Her hair, normally brushed sleek and shining was bedraggled and slicked to her scalp
 as if wet.  There were dark bruises around her eyes and streaks of tears across
 her cheeks, glittering golden in the firelight.  Her bloodless lips were drawn 
open slightly as though her breath was caught in her throat.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 He 
had never before noticed how long her neck was, and how slender.  Nor how narrow
 and thin her shoulders were.  The rope she was hanging from had been wrapped cruelly
 tight around her chest and upper arms, biting into the skin and, as her weight 
tried to slide her out of it, squeezing her breasts upwards into blood-gorged, painfully
 flattened bulges while blood oozed from one of her nipples as though she had been
 sucked far too hard or bitten.  Her stomach, gouged and scratched, was indrawn 
beneath the arch of her ribs as though she was tensing herself against hurt and 
the little triangle of black between her legs, parted by the rock needle, stood 
out startlingly bold against the whiteness of her skin.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 troll was nearly upon him, the eager teeth of its dagger caked with black blotches
 of old, coagulated blood and thirsting for Edmund{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s life.   
With only moments of life left to him he twisted the rope around his wrists in the
 hope the dead weight of his body would hold Susan off the spike, and let his eyes
 settle on his sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s sex to drink it in.  And Susan, as though
 knowing and understanding this, opened herself to his gaze.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 little wrinkled finger of her clitoris poked shyly out of the groove below the 
tuft of hair while, immediately behind it, the huge shaft of bloody rock forced 
her cuntlips apart and disappeared into her body.  Despite the imminence of his 
death, with its stench he could already smell and the whistling of its breath through
 the hole in its face that he could hear, his prick twitched with envious empathy
 for the rock shaft enfolded in his sister{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s vagina.  In straining
 to support Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s weight she was rising and falling slightly
 at the end of the rope and the rock was sliding up and down inside her cunt an 
inch or two.  As the troll loomed over him with its knife poised to carve him wide
 open he realised that he was, after all, fucking his big sister, and could not 
think of a more wonderful time to die.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 At 
the realisation he laughed with joy and the troll paused in confusion, its knife
 poised for the killing blow.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Then
, in blur of chestnut motion and shower of sparks struck by steel shoe on rock floor
, a centaur crashed into the troll, sending it reeling against the rock spike between
 Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s legs.  Tarttak reared and his front-hooves crashed 
against the troll{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s head, sending it sprawling. The two trolls
 who had been holding Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s legs sprang at him and he twisted
 away, sword slicing.  One troll keeled over, its head flopping off its shoulders
, but the other drove its dagger into the horse{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s side of the
 centaur, towards his heart.  Tarttak staggered, spent all  his remaining strength
 in a two-handed back-cut which opened the troll from groin to chin, and then went
 down.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Unable
 to do anything except cling grimly to the rope Edmund watched his centaur die for
 although both man and horse part of him had a heart they shared a common blood-
stream and as his horse{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s heart pumped it out through the gash
 in his side his man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s heart sucked at empty arteries and failed
. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Another
 centaur appeared at Edmund{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s side and strong arms took the 
rope from him, easily lifting Susan off the stone spike.  It was Belrath, his hindquarters
 low and unsteady. Gratefully Edmund stumbled back and sunk down with his back to
 the rock mound containing the stone seat.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Twisting
 at the end of her rope Susan pushed herself clear of the rock and Belrath lowered
 her.  She slid down against its smooth, blood-slicked sides and wriggled to avoid
 coming down on the troll chieftain felled by Tarttak or the one he had sliced open
, which was still wriggling and thrashing its death-throes on a bloodied, steaming
 bed of its own intestines, stomach and kidneys.  Pushing itself clear of it to 
she hopped a few steps on feet spread wide by a spear-shaft to a piece of floor 
clear of the carnage and fell in a sobbing heap.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Edmund
 looked about him.  Tarttak{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s huge body lay next to the troll
 it had beheaded with, nearby, the one killed by Edmund such a long time ago, as
 it seemed.  The hilt of his sword still protruded from its chest but, Edmund noticed
 with a pang of annoyance, in falling dead it had broken his sword and a length 
of the bloodstained blade lay next to it. In the cavern fighting still raged and
 it was clear that although won, for the trolls had been scattered and were increasingly
 outnumbered as dwarves still poured out of the hole in the cave wall, the battle
 was far from over.  Bodies of troll, dwarf and hound littered the floor, some still
 moving, some not.  Tactics for fighting trolls were for a gang of dwarves and or
 hounds to surround it and torment it, keeping out of reach of its axe, club or 
dagger until a centaur with its long-bow or dwarf with its cross-bow could knock
 it down.  It was dangerous work, though, and Edmund saw several trolls stuck with
 several arrows or bolts still lashing out it its attackers.  Dwarfish yells, war
-dog snarling, trollish grunts and the clatter of steel shoes on rock rang through
 cave over a background of groans and cries, the wooden thunk of bows and metallic
 twang of cross-bows.  Yet steadily the number of trolls still standing diminished
 and the numbers gathering against them increased.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Gritting
 his teeth against the throbbing pain in his ankle Edmund found himself shaking 
uncontrollably.  Belrath and another centaur were standing guard over Susan and 
another, Edmund noticed, had taken Tarttak{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s place and was guarding
 him.  Gnawgrim was gently removing the rope from around Susan{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s chest while a dwarfish shaman at her side was rummaging in his pack for his medicines
 and salves.  It slowly dawned on Edmund that they had won.  Unbelievably they had
 rescued Susan alive and defeated a force of thirty-eight trolls, and he had been
 part of it.  He found himself sobbing and laughing at the same time.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Ed?  Are you all right?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 was standing over him.  His sword was dripping blood, he had blood up to the elbows
 and his splendid surcoat of royal blue with the golden {\lang5129\u8220\'93}PIR
{\lang5129\u8221\'94} was black with it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Ricked my ankle,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Edmund said, laughing because
 it still hurt like mad and it was all so stupid.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 He 
saw his brother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s eyes narrow and knew.  Just for a moment Peter
 had suspected a lie.  His elder brother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s instinctive reaction
 had been to suspect Edmund of faking a sprained ankle so that he could cower at
 the foot of the rock and duck the fight.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Suddenly
 coldly furious he stared back and for the first time in his life saw Peter back
 down from him.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Susan}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s over there,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he
 said bitterly, nodding in her direction.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 looked at the over at the group and then back at Edmund, unusually uncertain of
 himself.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Ed}\u8230\'85\u8221\'94{\lang1033   he said.  Then, clearly aware
 of the damage and with no idea how to go about repairing it he straightened up 
with a grimace and crossed to Susan.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Seeing
 him she brushed off the shaman and struggled to her knees.  Belrath had draped 
her with his own cover but she ignored it, letting it slide from her shoulders.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 The girl.  The siren.  How is she?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  she asked
 quickly and with a clear, iron voice.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Who..?  Siren}\u8230\'85{\lang1033 ?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Peter
 was knocked back a step by her vehemence.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 On the rock.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   She waved an arm and nearly toppled
 over.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Help me up,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  she snarled at Gnawgrim
.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Majesty}\u8230\'85{\lang1033 ?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   The old dwarf
 was as startled as the High King but stood like a rock as Susan put a hand around
 his neck and used him to lever herself unsteadily to her feet.  Peter, hovering
 helplessly next to her, tried to drape the centaur}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s blanket
 around her shoulders but she ignored it again.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Belrath,}\u8217\'92{\lang1033  she said more gently.  }\u8220\'93
{\lang1033 Please take me over there.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 centaur looked down at her standing naked and barely able to keep her feet before
 him, some battle clearly fighting itself out in his mind.  Then he bowed to her
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Majesty,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he said softly and, slipping his hands
 under her arms, picked her up effortlessly.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Bearing
 the naked Queen before him he crossed to the rock, clearly having some difficulty
 controlling his back-legs.  Peter, puzzled, trailed behind them.  The fighting 
was almost done and many of the survivors were drawn to the sight.  Edmund struggled
 up the rock but his abused ankle was far to tender to put any weight on and as 
dwarves and centaurs gathered between him and Susan he pulled himself up into the
 chair carved into the rock so as to be able to see over their heads.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Get that rubbish off her,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Susan snarled and
 eager dwarvish hands pulled the dead troll off the green-haired girl, its short
, fat penis slipping bloodily out of the crimson pulp between her legs.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Is she still alive?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Susan whispered.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 dwarf shaman bent over her and then lifted his head.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Yes, Majesty,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  he reported, }\u8220\'93{\lang1033
But}\u8230\'85\u8221\'94{\lang1033   A slow shake of his head said that it was a
 situation not likely to continue much longer.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Peter.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Susan}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s voice 
was of iron again.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 You are her King, remember?}\u8221\'94
{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Sue?  Yes, but}\u8230\'85{\lang1033   What}\u8230\'85{\lang1033 ?
}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Help her die,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   the High Queen of Narnia hissed
.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Hesitantly
 Peter stepped up to her, bent over and kissed the siren on her forehead.  The girl
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s eyes fluttered open and she smiled up at him.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Give me your sword,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Susan ordered implacably
, }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 And hold her head up so she can see this.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 No 
way could Peter refuse.  He meekly handed his sister the sword Aslan had presented
 to him, then gently raised the dying siren{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s head and slipped
 beneath it so he could rest it in his lap.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Bring me that}\u8230\'85{\lang1033  that thing,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033
  Susan ordered, pointing at the troll with the split face crumpled at the foot 
of the spike.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Tarttak
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hooves had only stunned it and the two giants hauled it to
 its feet and dragged it over to Susan.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 You.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   The naked Queen jabbed it with the point
 of the sword.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Wake up.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   She jabbed
 it again and again.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Ragnok.  The High Queen of Narnia is
 talking to you.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 The
 troll stirred and raised its head.  As consciousness returned it struggled ineffectively
 in the iron grip of the giants and then gave up.  Susan stepped up to it, her breasts
 only inches from its chest, and stared up into its split face.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Remember me?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  she asked menacingly.  Then she
 stepped back.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Remember her?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   She pointed
 with the sword at the green-haired girl in Peter}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s arms.\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Well, this is for her,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  she spat and with an
 explosion of strength and both hands on the hilt swung the sword over her head 
like an axe.  The blade, which never lost its razor edge, hummed in the air and 
then bit downwards into the troll}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s thighs with a wet thwack
.  The troll shrieked and its severed penis flopped at Susan}\u8217\'92{\lang1033
s feet. For a moment Susan rested the sword}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s point on the 
floor before her and leaned on it, building her strength.  Then in a low, sweet 
voice she said, }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 And this is for me.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  
Raising the sword she drove it into the troll}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s chest.  There
 was a murmur of approval from the watching dwarves.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Leaving
 it in the troll{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s twitching, jerking body she turned her back
 on it and returned to the green-haired girl on the table.  As Peter had she bowed
 down and kissed her on the forehead, whispering something Edmund didn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t hear although he saw a tear fall on the girl{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s 
cheek.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 I think}\u8230\'85{\lang1033 .}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  said Peter after
 few moments and slid out from beneath the mass of green-hair to lay the girl}\u8217
\'92{\lang1033 s head gently on the stone.  Susan laid her body on the green-haired
 girl}\u8217\'92{\lang1033 s and wept.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Clearly
 shaken Peter retrieved his sword from the corpse of the troll chieftain, wiped 
it on its cloak of hair and then draped Belrath{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s cape across
 the sobbing Queen and the body of the girl.  Edmund, too, was rattled and disturbed
  by a sister he had never seen before  A sister who could stand naked before an
 army of males without the least shame or embarrassment.  A sister who could kill
.  And not just kill.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Eventually
 Susan quietened, sniffed and rose from the dead siren, shrugging the centaur{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s cape from herself and draping it over the body.  Naked and smeared 
with blood from her own cuts and gashes, from the stone spike, from the troll and
 from the siren{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s body  and with the gouge marks left by the
 rope still visible on her arms and beneath her breasts she swung on Bellerix.\par
}

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\'93{\lang1033 Do any still live?}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  she asked fiercely.\par}
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{\lang1033\par}}

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\'93{\lang1033 Kill them.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033  Susan spat.\par}}

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\'93{\lang1033 Sue!}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Peter exclaimed.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033
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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Bellerix
 turned helplessly to Peter, who after all was High King and commander of the army
.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Susan
 turned her back on them both and, naked and bloody, said quietly to the silent, 
watching army, {\lang5129\u8220\'93}Kill them.{\lang5129\u8221\'94}\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 It 
did not take very long.  As soon as the butchery was over Susan turned away from
 the army again, surrendering it back to her brother.  A dwarf had been hovering
 nearby for some time holding a long, heavy cape found amid a pile of loot the trolls
 had acquired on the raid.  Crossing to him she accepted it and wrapped herself 
in it, then walked carefully to a rock which had served the trolls as a seat near
 the fire, sat down on it and, remote and untouchable, stared into the flames.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Peter
 stared after her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f0\lang5129\fs24\kerning28\u8220
\'93{\lang1033 Sire,}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Bellerix said.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033
There are the wounded to see to, and the full extent of the cave to determine.  
There may yet be {\i trolloclodyte} hiding or lying low, and we have the exit to
 find.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033\par}}

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\'93{\lang1033 Yes.}\u8221\'94{\lang1033   Edmund could see that Peter was distracted
.  }\u8220\'93{\lang1033 Yes.  Do}\u8230\'85{\lang1033   Do whatever}\u8230\'85\u8221
\'94{\lang1033  he waved a dismissal at the centaur and crossed to a rock of his
 own, sat down on it and pulled his blood-soaked surcoat around him.\par}}

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 began issuing orders and the army stirred itself.  Edmund, ensconced in his throne
, watched an oblivious Peter and sucked a tooth thoughtfully.\par}

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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f0\lang1033\fs32\kerning28 Chapter
 12\par}

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}

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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\ul\f1\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 Author
\u8217\'92s Note\par}

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}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f1\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 I began
 \u8216\'91The Other Side Of Narnia\u8217\'92 merely to satisfy my own curiosity
 as to what might have happened to C.S. Lewis\u8217\'92 creations Peter, Susan, 
Lucy and Edmund had they had a bit more \u8216\'91spunk\u8217\'92 than Lewis himself
 allowed them.   The 100,000 words to this point represent many hours of thoroughly
 enjoyable thinking, writing and editing but I have a living to make and other projects
 demanded the time.  Besides, the story from this point is pretty complete in my
 head, and putting it down on paper is just the perspiration part of writing, rather
 than the inspiration.\par}

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}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f1\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 If, 
though, you have enjoyed what you have read and would like the story to continue
 drop me a mail via {\i\ul\cf1{{\field{\*\fldinst{ HYPERLINK "mailto:v10la@operamail.com"
}}{\fldrslt{\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282 v10la@operamail.com
}}}}} and if it seems there is enough enthusiasm out there to know more I have no
 doubt it will enthuse me enough to press on with the project.  \par}

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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1\fi282{\f1\lang1033\fs24\kerning28 R.A
.  25/8/03\par}

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