This story takes place in the Narnia golden age, to have a full understanding of the characters from Archenland, read book 3; The Horse and His Boy.

The Bowler Twins in Narnia

Benjamin Bowler watched his sister as she coughed and knew she would being doing the same in turn.

They were both ill, seriously ill with scarlet fever. It was Benjamin (or Ben as his friends called him) who had caught it at school from, almost all his class had scarlet fever, and he had passed it onto his sister, his twin sister Bonnie.

Bonnie Bowler was his younger sister by an hour or so. She had dark hair, dark eyes and pale skin. According to most people she looked alot like him, but was far cleverer than he could ever be.

They lived with their aunt, Beatrice because their parents had drowned when their boat went down in the freezing waters of the Antarctic ocean. They had been explorers and wanted to see the continent. The children's parents had been kind and caring, not unlike Aunt Beatrice. All around the house there were loads of pictures of their parents, paintings on walls and photos in almost every photo album in the house. They served as a memorial for the two of them. Aunt Beatrice (or Bea) always told them they had the dark eyes of their father and dark hair of their mother.

Aunt Bea was their mum's sister and she also had dark hair, she was tall and quite skinny. She almost always had a smile on her face and wore vibrant colours, though Ben had seen her sad when she thought nobody was about, she missed their mother terribly.

They lived in a big house in the countryside near the sea, there were cliffs quite nearby that looked out to the South East.

The house was a grand Victorian one reinforced with more modern material. It was furnished with antique furniture as any big old house could be and it's decoration included weapons (swords, bows and arrows...), beautiful paintings, expensive rugs and delicate curtains and cushions. The twins had their own rooms and so did Aunt Bea, her butler, her maid, her cook and various other house helpers.