Saba followed the faun, her tail wagging. They arrived at his house and she sat down as he brought her tea. She drank it quickly, suddenly feeling thirsty. She lifted her muzzle.

"Did you just come here?" asked Mr. Tumnus.

"Yes," said Saba.

"Welcome to Narnia," he replied. "I've lived here my whole life."

"That's nice," said Saba.

"Yes, it is," he agreed. "When was the last time you heard a Narnian lullaby?"

"Um… I haven’t ever heard one…" Saba admitted, feeling quite silly.

"Really?" Mr. Tumnus set down his cup and moved to the fireplace. Above it was a beautiful box. "Well, I must play one for you." He pulled the box down and lifted a lovely instrument from it. "I apologize if it’s not that good. I haven’t played it in a while." He began to play a gentle, soft, wonderful song. Saba lay down on the carpet and rested her head on her paw, watching him by the fire. She... had… to… stay… awake…

Before she knew what hit her, the wolfdog was asleep.

Saba awoke later on that day. She saw Mr. Tumnus crying softly and leapt to her paws. "Mr. Tumnus? What’s happened?"

"I’m such a terrible creature," he sniffed. "You’re trapped here and it’s my fault!"

"Trapped? What on earth are you talking about?" Saba asked in wonder.

Mr. Tumnus sniffed. "This… place… isn’t full of joy and happiness. There’s a witch. She is awful. She ordered us to give her hybrids if we ever found any…. And… and I betrayed you…"

Saba gasped, backing up. "But… but… I have to get home!"

"It’s too late. There’s nothing we can do."

"NO! I have to go home, Mr. Tumnus!" Saba said pleadingly. "Please help me!"

"I… I can try…" He sighed and got up. "I will try! Let us go!"

The wind howled as it flew around Saba and her companion. She didn’t slow her pace. She knew that it was important for her to waste no time.

"I see it!" she called to him. "I see the lamppost!" She closed the gap between her and the clearing and looked at Mr. Tumnus.

"Can you find your own way from here?" the faun asked.

 "Yes, thank you very much."

He nodded. "You are very welcome." Smiling, she walked back towards her home.

Saba raced through the house, looking for her siblings. She burst into her and Aleu’s room and nosed her awake. "Aleu, get up, get up!"

"What?" Aleu raised her head. The moment her sister appeared to be awake, Saba peeled out of the room and into the boy’s room. She leapt on Dingo and rolled over him.

"Get up!" she told her brothers urgently. "You have to see what I found!"

"What is going on, Saba?" Dingo pushed himself into a sitting position, staring at her curiously.

"I went through this gate and I saw this other world and-"

"Oh, geeze!" scoffed Kodi, rolling his eyes. "Saba, you’ve gotta be kidding!"

"I’m telling the truth!" Saba said indignantly. "And I met a faun named Mr. Tumnus and he took me home for tea!"

"Oh, good gosh!" Kodi scoffed, turning away. "What next?" He slid into a laying position and turned his head away from her.

Saba stared at her brother. What was wrong with him? "It’s true! And then he lulled me to sleep and told me about a witch and-"

"Saba, enough." Dingo’s voice was stern but his eyes were kind. "You were only dreaming."

"But I wasn’t! It was real!" She was close to tears now. First Kodi had claimed her to be a liar and now even Dingo was questioning her!

"Saba, you had to have been," Aleu said softly.

"Why don’t you believe me?" Saba looked from one wolfdog to another.

"It’s just not possible!" Aleu said harshly.

Saba glared at her sister. "Anything’s possible! You just have to have an open mind and-"

"Enough, Saba!" Dingo looked at her, his face pained for having to scold hi sister.

Saba glared at him. "Why can’t you believe me?"

"Saba, if you were our age and a little pup came running to you telling you about a little world they imagined and it was night, what would you say?" snapped Kodi, looking up at her with narrowed eyes.

"First of all, I’m not a little pup!" growled Saba. "Second of all, you’re hardly older than I am, and thirdly, I’d believe them!"

Dingo groaned. "Fine! We’ll check it out in the morning, okay?"

"Fine," Saba growled, glaring at Kodi.

"And, before you go to bed, apologize to each other," Aleu growled. Saba cast her sister an irritated glance and looked at Kodi.

"I'm sorry," she told him and, deep down, she meant it.

"Me too," huffed Kodi. And, deep down, he meant it too.

"This way!" Saba raced out of the house in excitement. This was it! She could show her siblings how wrong they had been!

"Wait up, will you?" snapped Kodi. He was behind the others since he thought the whole thing and his sister were stupid.

"Fine!" Saba slowed her pace but her ears were twitching in impatience. She just wanted to show her siblings that she was right! Was it too much to ask for them to believe her?

"Okay, Saba, we’re at the edge of town, how much further?" Aleu asked. She was cold and tired and hungry and wanted to go back but she was willing to do this for her sister.

"Not too long," Saba promised. She showed them the place where she had gone into Narnia.

"Did you not read this sign?" Kodi rolled his eyes. "Yeah, it says ‘keep out’."

"What sign?" Saba padded to him and stared at the sign blankly. "Oh…"

Kodi rolled his eyes again. "Yeah. Oh."

"But it’s worth it! Come on!" Saba plunged through the gate, the others behind her. She satred as she went in deeper.

Nothing was there.

Narnia was gone.