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Chapter 13 is up.  This wound up at over 20,000 words.  After dithering, I decided to post it in two pieces.  I will post Part 2 on Christmas Day as it is set on Christmas Day.  With Yuletide and all the other challenges, I figured this would get buried, but I hit the send anyway because now it’s time to turn to the Big Bang.
 
Thanks to adaese and wellinghall for their enormous assistance on foodstuffs and UK Christmas celebrations then and now.  Also, there was a lot of information through google-fu, including here, here, Christmas Under Fire, and the Peoples’ War 

There was also this report about a teenage girl who was “French” kissed by a dashing Frenchmen in black silk pyjamas,
 
Thanks also to lady_songsmith for Christmas information as well.
 
I found terrific information on the Christmas Eve Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge in several places, including the College’s own site here and here and the very useful site here.
 
I once again returned to the work of the amazing anastigmatfic and refer back to her Deny the Child in which Morgan coshes Aslan with a candlestick.  I thought a lot about Edmund in this part, for all that we don’t have his point of view much.  We cover a lot of ground with him as we get the promised discussion of what it was to be a traitor from DT, some understanding with his mother, his reaction to and meeting Jill, his comfort to Lucy and hopefully a sense that he is not angst-filled and is moving in the right direction.  My thanks to anastigmatfic,h_dash_h, and Doctor Dolly who all shared thoughts on this in comments. 
 
Some of the period touches on important cultural milestones, including the release of Casablanca in December 1942 to coincide with Operation Torch, the influx of over paid, over sexed, over fed jitterbugging American GIs, and the release of White Christmas.
 
Here's a great video about Jitterbugging and such,

"Having learned the steps you now forget them."  At about 5:32 you get all the American soldiers dancing and  you can just imagine Mrs. Pevensie's reaction.

( The Mass Observation project, Helen, the little Kinsey report, and its conclusions about intimacy in 1949 )

Peace to you and my deepest thanks.