Jump 198: Chronicles of Narnia

Jump 198: Chronicles of Narnia
>The Chariot: A trying situation mastered by balancing opposing forces against each other. Discipline, individual effort and endurance will turn the tide.
>Age: 524
>Location: Free Choice
>Identity: Starborn (-400)
>Drawbacks: Arranged Marriage (+100), Blitzed Brit (+300), Out Of The Silent Planet (+300)
Two birds with one stone... hopefully. I'm sure I'll figure something out.
>Claim to Hospitality (Free, Drop-In)
Hospitality should never, never be underestimated. If you can convince a host to be hospitable it opens many venues and aids in ensuring your safety.
>Heart of a Child (1100, Drop-In)
I'm honestly less worried about resisting corruption than I am keeping the core of myself to be myself. It's important to always remember where I came from, and this (along with The Fountain) will definitely play a role in that.
>Narnian Time (800, Drop-In)
Age control and a perfectly accurate internal clock. Yeah, I can use both of these things, more than most might think...
>Favor of Tashlan (400)
I'm pretty sure BSing things is going to be helpful at one point or another with Out Of The Silent Planet, but more importantly, helping synergize divine/spiritual abilities is going to be quite helpful.
>The Preservation of Man (300)
This is another that will definitely be helpful along my journey. Honest self-reflection is not always an easy thing, and having this ability means I've got the gift to engage in such when I choose. If only it were always so easy.
>The Great Dance (Free, Starborn)
Oh no, I'm sparkling again, I hope this doesn't mean I've gone back to being a vampire- oh, false alarm, I'm only glowing. Phew.
>Fairy Stories (Free, Drop-In)
Oh, yes, I will most certainly be finding this useful. Especially helpful in dealing with the drawbacks. Being able to read between the lines of these books especially.
>Clock of Ages (0, Drop-In)
Say it with me now: hyperbolic time chamber. Running time at 198:1 means it's going a little more than half as fast as the one we all know and love, with all the comforts of the warehouse and its annexes, but I'm sure by the time I finally go for endjump it's going to be running twice the speed of DBZ's version (which is 365:1).

So. Narnia. I'm not going to try and engage Aslan - he's got this heavy-handed allegory thing going on, and this is his home, so I'm going to respect that as much as possible. I might ask him a few pointed questions from time to time ("Seriously... if you're going to gripe at that girl for her interest in boys, how do you WANT her to behave? Did you ever SAY anything to her first? She can't read your mind, after all."), but as I said, it's his show and I'm a guest, I have no right to criticize overmuch.

The real world is a much more bleak place, though. Being eleven years old in London in 1939 is nasty enough, but I think I probably shouldn't have taken this drawback. The second world war is going to drag on much further than anyone would like, meaning more lives lost, things probably being a mire on both fronts (or the eastern front stalling), and V-2 bombs terrorizing England until nearly 1950. And you know what? I can actually probably lay the blame at the feet of the aliens terrorizing the world. Which plays into the usual Nazi super science tropes.

I'll have to do my part to help the war effort. Sure, I don't have my abilities outside of Narnia, so I can't go out and fight myself. But I can come up with designs while I do my star duties in Narnia, or evade that tsundere star who's constantly chasing me about, and transcribe them when I return to the real world, then send them in anonymously. We aren't talking quantum leaps forward, but we ARE talking about materials science advancements. How to effectively make tank armor, reasons why certain designs are better, ways that guns can be designed more efficiently, battle doctrines, construction methods, warplane designs, ciphers and encryption methods... I'll do as much as a kid can do while doing my best to be anonymous.

And if they ever find me and ask me why I never came forward... well, come on, I'm just a kid. Who would believe me even if I came forward and demonstrated all of these things? Being anonymous and submitting such through the mail would get me more respect as a polymath than I'd see as just some kid who thinks he's a genius.

I'm a little concerned that I put more thought into what's going on in the real world than what's going on in Narnia...