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On the lost boys of Neverland:

The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out; but at this time there were six of them, counting the twins as two.

-Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

So yeah. Apparently Peter kills the lost boys.

Which doesn't surprise me ever since I read this on jmbarrie.co.uk, on the topic of the conception of Captain Hook and who the original villain of the play was:

What makes these notes so remarkable is the realisation that Barrie wrote his first draft of the play without any mention of Captain Hook at all. He didn't need a villain because he already had one: "P[eter] a demon boy (villain of story)." It was only due to the prosaic necessity of a "front-cloth scene" to give the stagehands time to change the scenery from the Never Never Land back to the Darling Nursery that Hook was conceived at all.

So anyway, yeah. I'm really enjoying this book. I love the lost boys and I'm a little intrigued by the fact the twins have to hide what they are because Peter doesn't know what twins are and it's against the rules to know anything Peter doesn't know.

I need to sit down and finish this, so probably next time I go to the coffee shop.

Not sure what my next destination is. Have a feeling it might be Narnia again, it's time I met Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.