Okay here is the next chapter, and I worked extra hard on the grammar for this one!!! Enjoy…

She woke to a tap on the window, and the faint sound of a voice. Wearily, Mya opened her eyes, and to her annoyance, saw that the sun was only just beginning to rise. Another tap on the window, and she sat up in her bed, turning around to peer out the window, slightly to the left of the headboard. Looking out the window, she saw a small golden woodpecker, tapping with his beak against her window. Not entirely sure about what to do, she hesitantly opened her window. As soon as there was enough space for the little bird to squeeze through, he did, and flew around the room a few times before landing on her bed die table.

'Hello,' he said. Momentarily stunned, she realised that apparently not only the wolves could talk (they had been yelling at her to stop when they chased her through the woods when she had arrived the day before).

'Erm, hi' she said, and briefly forgetting her manners she added 'can all animals in this world talk?'

'Oh, well no, only the ones in Narnia can.' He explained. Realising her rudeness Mya said

'Sorry, I completely forgot my manners, it's just because I'm new here you see. Anyway I'm Mya. What's your name?'

'Lovely to meet you Mya, I'm Percy. Sorry to bother you it's just since we found out about the new arrival we've all been dying to meet you.' he said, looking slightly nervous as he got to the second sentence.

Curious to know whose these others were, she asked and soon found out about the little gathering of his friends at the bottom of her window. Agreeing to go meet them, since she wanted to make the most of this adventure, she left her room, and quite successfully managed to sneak out of the castle, to where Percy was waiting for her.

'I'm quite pleased, I only took one wrong turn that time.' Mya said as they made their way to where the other animals were now waiting.

'Ah, I forget how tricky it is to learn your way around Cair. No worries though, you'll learn soon enough.' Smiling at the encouraging words he provided, they continued on their way and soon reached where the other animals stood in anticipation. When they finally reached them, they all excitedly greeted Mya, and welcomed her to the family. Delighted at their enthusiasm, Mya decided it didn't matter if one of the kings and herself didn't exactly see eye to eye; there were plenty of other lovely people and animals she was sure would make great friends.

After spending a little while getting to know some of the animals, she decided to explore the glorious beach, and so set off barefoot, still in the nightgown and robe Susan had generously given her to the sandy shores. Looking out over the beautiful waters, and overpowering urge to go for a swim overtook her, and since it was still so early in the morning, Mya decided no one would catch her. Leaving the rode on the shore, she scrunched up her dress in her hands as she took her first steps into the ocean. The warm water splashed lightly around her feet and Mya felt delightful, thinking about how you could never do this back in England because of the awful weather (not that she'd ever had the chance to). Gradually getting deeper, a sudden larger wave took her by surprise, knocking her out of her thoughts. Enchanted by the way this whole place made her feel, she took a dive, and went deeper into the water. When she was very young, she'd had a few swimming lessons, so even though she hadn't swum for years, she eventually got the basics of it, and continued messing around in the water. Having taken a deeper dive, and lost her bearings when under the water, she resurfaced facing the beach, and that was when she noticed a figure, sitting holding her robe. Swimming back to the shore, she saw the person she least wanted to see; Edmund. Walking out of the water, whilst soaking wet she walked over to Edmund calmly; the water had helped wash away some of the dislike she had strongly felt towards him.

'Here.' he said, handing her the robe, as he looked up.

'Thank you,' she said, smiling kindly as she took the midnight blue robe, and tied it round herself. She plopped down in the sand next to him, and proceeded to stare out at the horizon, wondering if he had anything else to say to her.

Eventually he did;

'What are you doing out here so early?'

'A little golden woodpecker called Percy woke me up, and asked me to come and meet some of his friends!'

'Ohh Percy, he's a sweet little guy.'

'Anyway, why are you up so early?' Mya asked curiosity taking over.

'Sometimes I get up early to do some sparring in the practise fields!'

'Wow, well from what I've heard you're pretty good so you don't really need the practise.' Mya responded, smiling as she recalled her recent conversation with Peter, who was proving to be a very good friend indeed.

'Well, I suppose I am rather good.' He said in a jokey manner, smiling.

'Hey,' Mya replied, giving him a light shove and laughing.

'Did you just shove me? You really didn't want to do that' and before Mya knew it Edmund had tackled her and was full out tickling her. At one point she managed to get the upper hand in the tickle competition, but eventually they both called it a draw and lay on the sand panting. After they'd both regained their breath they decided to head in for breakfast, chatting away as they did so. They piled into the breakfast hall to see everyone else already sitting down eating. As they walked in noisily chatting Susan raised her eyebrows and said

'I see you two are getting along a little better.'

'Well maybe she isn't as bad as I initially though' Edmund responded, lightly punching Mya in the arm as he did so. After that they all sat down, happily making plans for the rest of the week, to officially welcome Mya to Narnia, and help her get to know all the places.