To a small child, the Queen of Spring and the King of Evening are the nightmares in the dark. They do only what is best for Narnia, there is never any doubt about that, but there is also an understanding that they are little troubled if there is collateral damage involved in achieving that which is best for Narnia. So if, as parents often say, Narnia would benefit by there being one fewer disobedient child...how fortunate for the child that Evening's King and Spring's Queen must concern themselves with the whole of Narnia, and that disobedient children therefore usually escape their notice.

The King of Summer and the Queen of Morning are better known for their benevolence, or for doing what their worshippers ask of them. But if they do not have the power to terrify, still they have the power to frighten, so the only children who call on them are the brave ones and those who feel they cannot be scared any worse by the little gods than by whatever drives them to call on the gods. And Morning's Queen and Summer's King must have a care for all of Narnia no less than their siblings must, so, if they are not invoked, they pay no more attention to children than their siblings do.

It is a rare child in Narnia who neither plays with nor prays to the Princess of Night.

The Princess is never younger than the oldest child present, nor older than the girl who will tomorrow be a woman. The child found eavesdropping and the child caught playing a trick sometimes blame it on her—Saiet is, after all, her father's daughter. The child doing another's work and the child performing random acts of kindness sometimes say it is all her idea—the Princess of the Stars is her mother's daughter as much as her father's. Opinions differ on exactly who her mother is; perhaps she is the star Alambil (turn a strong spyglass on the Lady of Peace and one may see a child on her hip as she dances the sky, though this may be another child, or perhaps the lover with whom Alambil dances), perhaps the Queen of Morning (though she is never said to be a mother), perhaps just a woman who caught the King of Evening's eye. There have been a few children who grew up hearing Calormene tales from one parent and Narnian myths from the other who are certain that Saiet and Zardeenah are great friends, others equally sure that the two are rival queens of the playground; a few others have suggested that Night's Princess and the Lady of the Night are one and the same, though the shocked looks from their playmates dissuaded most of them.

Boys abandon the worship of the Princess almost as soon as they discover that girls and boys are different races. Girls stay with her longer, but not by so much; they too are growing up, and sooner or later they must set aside childish things. Picking wildflowers to weave into Saiet's crown is by any measure a childish thing, and so is asking a favor of a tiny demigoddess (she has the power to grant small requests and does so at her whim, and the King of Shadows may do as his daughter asks him when he would not for any but her) when one is grown enough to ask instead of a little god. Even if one feels oneself still enough of a child at heart to play with her, she loses interest in her playmates when they are no longer children like herself, and she hears the prayers of an adult only if they are on the behalf of a child.