the second occasion

[deepest_magic]

House. Wardrobe. Coats.

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[deepest_magic]

"King James," says Bella. "Like the Bible edition."

[neverbeatme]

...She giggles. "Perfect."

[deepest_magic]

"And Queen Isabella. I think real Queen Isabellas may have existed but I don't remember enough history to know where."

[neverbeatme]

"There might have been one in Spain, I think I vaguely remember hearing about one in Spain."

[deepest_magic]

"All right. I know a little Spanish just from living in Arizona."

[neverbeatme]

"I know very little Spanish! But I guess that fits. Okay, you be Queen Isabella and I'll be King James."

[deepest_magic]

"It's a deal."

[neverbeatme]

James giggles again.

[deepest_magic]

"We have to get to the palace, first, though, and I bet the witch is going to try to stop us. Aslan seems like he can probably take her - well, as far as I know, but you met her and I haven't, what do you think?"

[neverbeatme]

"I think... he could. But she might have something up her sleeve. She's the something-up-her-sleeve type."

[deepest_magic]

"Yeah. Fairy tale logic says we're not all done having adventures until we've needed all our presents."

[neverbeatme]

"Yeah. I'm still not sure about the fairy tale logic thing, but it seems to hold up most of the time from what we've seen so far."

[deepest_magic]

"This is a pretty fairy tale place. I like it, especially now it's spring."

[neverbeatme]

"Spring is a plus," she says. "Especially under the circumstances. If it was just an ordinary winter I'd miss it more, because I like building snow forts."

[deepest_magic]

"Yeah, the winter was a sad winter, not a snow forts winter. Presumably it will be back again in an appropriate amount of time and then it will be a nicer winter."

[neverbeatme]

"With Christmas," says James. "I definitely support the Narnia version of Christmas."

[deepest_magic]

"I do too. I wonder if the presents are this cool every year."

[neverbeatme]

"I sure hope so!"

[deepest_magic]

"The beavers didn't get magic things and we didn't see what anyone else got, but the beavers seemed really happy anyhow."

[neverbeatme]

"Father Christmas is interesting. You seem like the kind of person who likes having things explained, and he explained your presents way more than he did anybody else's."

[deepest_magic]

"And he knew about the son of Eve thing, too. I wonder how that works. He seems much too friendly to be mind-reading without permission."

[neverbeatme]

"He couldn't possibly have gotten the son of Eve thing by reading my mind, anyway. It has to be something else. Maybe it's the same as whatever he uses to tell what presents to give people in the first place."

[deepest_magic]

"Yeah. Maybe like your sense-of-people but really souped up."

[neverbeatme]

"Seems plausible. Maybe I'll ask him next year."

[deepest_magic]

"Yeah. I wonder where he goes when it isn't Christmas."