"Peter, what are we going to do with the area that witch owned?" asked Susan, after the coronation,

"Well, we will go explore it, and then we will decide what to do with castle and the land surrounding it."

"The castle will be gone, it was made of ice, and the ice will have melted when summer returned to Narnia," offered Edmund, having been the only to have actually been to the castle.

"Then we best do it soon, while there might still be something left. I will go immediately. Susan, I want you and Lucy to stay here in case of danger, and Edmund, I need you to stay here to and work out some of the longer term defense needs," said Peter.

"But I want to go too!" said Edmund angrily.

"We need these things worked out, and it is due to you that the witch is dead, so you are the best one for the job," explained Susan.

"FINE! I'll stay, and let Peter be the hero."

"Im not going to be any type of hero, I'm exploring a castle that you've already been to."

"Well, you may have a point, good luck," said Edmund.

"Be careful!" warned Susan.

"Good bye, come back soon," said Lucy, waving as Peter galloped off into the distance on his horse.

"I feel kind of weird having let him go alone, like something big is going to happen, and he will be alone in fighting it," worried Lucy.

"Don't worry, Peter is very strong, and brave, he can handle himself just fine, especially with the witch gone," sad Susan, comforting Lucy.

"Yes, well, still, I really think Edmund should follow him just incase," said Lucy.

"Peter didn't want me to go, I am needed elsewhere, and besides, I really think that whatever is out there, he can handle it on his own." Edmund walked off into a room where a conference with the leaders remaining from the battle. Susan and Lucy walked off to start turning the castle of Cair Paravel into a suitable home for them.

"What about mom, won't she miss us?" asked Susan.

"Don't you understand? No time at all will pass while we are here in Narnia. When they are ready for new rulers, we can go home, and it will be just as though we'd never gone," explained Lucy.

"Yeah, they'll still be looking for whoever broke the window." Lucy and Susan began to laugh at Susan's joking manner.

"What do you think that Peter will find at the Witches castle?" asked Lucy.

"I don't know, probably just a bunch of ice, water, clothes, and food that belonged to the witch and her servants."

"You don't think that he will find anything interesting, or adventurous, or romantic?"

"No, not really, but how could he find something romantic at that castle?"

"Oh, he probably couldn't, it just fit with the other things I was saying, plus, he's almost 15, he needs a girl that is special to him."

"Well, you know what? I'm 13 and I don't have a special boy in my life."

"Well, one will come, eventually, and you know it."

"Not until we get back home, haven't you noticed? We are the only humans here."

"Well, I understand what you mean, but I mean, if we got through don't you think there might be anyone else who got through, and is just wandering around, or living here unknown somewhere?"

"I think it is highly unlikely that if anyone else got through they are still alive, after all, the witch did a really good job of making sure that no one else did."

"You may have a point, but I'd prefer to think that we aren't the only ones."

"You may think whatever you want Lucy, but if you think about it logically, it is almost impossible."

"Well, if you think logically, we wouldn't be here right now."

"That is where you have a point, and I have nothing to say."

"GOTCHA!" said Lucy excitedly. Susan and Lucy straightened up the castle in high spirits, unaware of what faced Peter at the castle.