It had taken them a while to defeat the witch and longer still to make Narnia their own, and then Archenland, Telmar, Calormen, until finally all the surrounding lands belonged to them as well. Of course, they had been children at the beginning, stupid and naïve, and it took time to learn to wield sword and dagger, to command armies, rule minds, and sharpen their every word and action to a deathly point, to eventually learn how to bend Narnia, itself, to their will (and by then, they had regretted so hastily killing the witch- she would have been more useful to them alive).

But after a couple of decades they had gotten… bored, bored of their unquestioned rule, bored of the fear and the awe and the lack of challenge- it had been a blessing, truly, when at last the Lion managed to force them out of his country and back into their own, and they would be sure not to waste it.