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calledmegentle All of Narnia is home. More than England ever will be, more than England ever can be. Even after a thousand years, Susan still can't help but love the land; feel entirely like she's where she belongs.
It's just that some parts of Narnia feel more at home than others, and this place in particular is one that always felt the most like it.
She's always looked upon it with wonder, and it's not something that changes now, the words escaping her lips in a soft, somewhat-awed breath.
"Cair Paravel."
It's just that some parts of Narnia feel more at home than others, and this place in particular is one that always felt the most like it.
She's always looked upon it with wonder, and it's not something that changes now, the words escaping her lips in a soft, somewhat-awed breath.
"Cair Paravel."
Coin says before. There may need to be another tag later for after.
Date: 2014-01-11 06:42 am (UTC)It's going to be a new start. A new king at an old seat of power. A fresh dynasty in an ancestral home.
That doesn't mean it isn't still that much more wonderful to see the re-construction site with her eyes. He can't help the slight smile as he leans forward on his horse. "The foundations, anyway."
Sounds good \o/
Date: 2014-01-11 06:16 pm (UTC)"The important parts," she murmurs in response, "What's been standing since nearly the beginning of Narnia itself."
Because with the various repairs and restorations that have taken place over the course of Narnia's history, it's mostly the foundations that have remained of the original castle.
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Date: 2014-01-11 11:03 pm (UTC)"And it's what you wanted?"
The plans she's seen on the foundations before them were sufficient? The rebuilt Cair would be what she had remembered in her dreams?
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Date: 2014-01-12 02:19 am (UTC)She can't see, really, how it'd be anything else, particularly when they had taken such care to restore the castle to it's closest version of itself as she had known it.
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Date: 2014-01-12 06:01 pm (UTC)He's not certain it can be. He's not certain there's anything in the world they can make that isn't somewhat imperfect--as it should be.
But it's easy to believe when she's smiling like this. "I hope it stands up to the foundations, then."
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Date: 2014-01-12 06:50 pm (UTC)She's needed the time to grieve the Narnia she knew, and time to celebrate the Narnia she's helping to form.
"We'll get it there, one way or another."
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Date: 2014-01-12 07:05 pm (UTC)And they'd do it by weaving her memories with his knowledge. It felt right to build Narnia again that way.
......obvs restored not destroyed, not sure what went down with my brain there.
Date: 2014-01-12 09:13 pm (UTC)"I can't wait."
I think sleepiness. It happens to the best of us.
Date: 2014-01-12 09:27 pm (UTC)"...come work with me."
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Date: 2014-01-12 09:40 pm (UTC)"Gladly."
Where else would she go, really? What else would she do?
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Date: 2014-01-12 10:34 pm (UTC)Hopefully she won't mind him stealing a kiss when they dismount. It's so hard not to want to solidify her smiles with at least a stolen brief moment.
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Date: 2014-01-13 04:14 am (UTC)The reconstruction of the Cair may be what gets her smiling, but it's absolutely him that keeps her smiling.
...I couldn't wait and needed a happy fluffy thing. /o\
Date: 2014-01-12 11:03 pm (UTC)But it's impossible, now that they're seeing it completed, not to understand that Cair Paravel is also simply a special place. It's more than just a beautiful castle built up in a stunning location. It's more than just a symbol of the Old Narnia being pulled back up sidelong with the new, modern Narnia they lived in.
It simply had a look about it that made a person realize he or she had finally come home.
"It's-- perfect."
As she had promised, long ago, it would be. As they had both assured each other while building it--building the castle itself, while he was also building ships and she was also building bridges. As was so infinitely clear standing here today.
Eeeee /o\
Date: 2014-01-13 04:25 am (UTC)Granted, it isn't quite the same place, and she's not quite the same person, and there certainly isn't the same people by her side as the last time. But she's home. She's back in Narnia in a complete way she hadn't quite been even after all this time.
And he is home, too. He's going to fit in quite perfectly in the Cair, despite his ancestry, and the way he reacts to seeing it only confirms it for her. It's got her smile absolutely bright as she wraps an arm around his waist and looks at the place she had spent fifteen magical years of her life in.
Where she intended to spend many more years.
"Isn't it?" Her sigh is absolutely contented, "We're home."
IT IS A GOOD NEST OKAY /o\ <3
Date: 2014-01-13 05:11 am (UTC)But home is also where she is. It takes a second to properly feel her arm moving around him, but when he does, it gets him beaming down at her with bright, adoring attention.
"We... are, aren't we. Really, this time."
THE BESTEST /o\
Date: 2014-01-13 05:43 am (UTC)"It's wonderful."
She couldn't ask for more than this; the both of them here in the place she had lived. That's what makes it home.
In part because it is a literal place they can nest. :|a
Date: 2014-01-13 05:58 am (UTC)One hand shifts briefly to smooth back a few strands of her hair before he looks up at the towers again.
"Is it... very like what you remember, then?"
And have little bb!birdies \o/
Date: 2014-01-13 06:19 am (UTC)"They did wonderfully in resdesigning and restoring it." And then a resting of her head against his shoulder, "You did wonderfully."
/sobs for bb-bird!Rilian squawking with little tufts of birdfuzz
Date: 2014-01-13 06:29 am (UTC)"I did so little, Susan."
Which, he was coming to see, was actually a good deal of being a King. A lot more than expected came from simply finding the people to trust to bring forth the beauty in their own kingdom.
Eeeeeee bb /o\
Date: 2014-01-13 06:45 am (UTC)And maybe that was something comparatively little, yes. But she would thank those others who had been more involved in the restoration on her own time. Now was for the two of them.
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Date: 2014-01-13 07:03 am (UTC)It's natural, now, to duck and press a brief kiss to her lips. To hold her just a little closer a moment and feel her lips smiling against his.
"And you did more than enough, I'm certain."
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Date: 2014-01-13 07:25 am (UTC)It's said with a soft laugh and a bit of a chasing of his lips by hers.
"I just did my best."
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Date: 2014-01-13 07:38 am (UTC)And she absolutely can't deny that. It was part of the way she served the kingdom, after all; working tirelessly on in the face of everything which cropped up in their path.
"Come. You said you'd show me the passages they built into the walls."
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Date: 2014-01-13 03:48 pm (UTC)And if he thinks she's not going to take his hand as they start to head towards one of the passages, he's wrong.
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Date: 2014-01-13 04:17 pm (UTC)"I can't-- imagine how exciting this is for you, Susan, but--"
But he's stunningly excited about it. He's more excited than he ever could have thought.
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Date: 2014-01-13 04:40 pm (UTC)"It's thrilling, isn't it?"
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Date: 2014-01-13 05:45 pm (UTC)And he can't help laughing. He simply can't stop the sound from escaping. It's so wonderful, laughing without real reason.
"And it's-- silly, I know, because we-- even put some of these stones in ourselves, but..."
But it felt different, now. It felt as if the completion allowed him to see everything they'd planned and designed and even built with new eyes.
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Date: 2014-01-13 06:15 pm (UTC)"Believe me, I know."
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Date: 2014-01-13 07:35 pm (UTC)There's another tight squeeze of her fingers as he nods. "It's really... ours, now. All of ours."
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Date: 2014-01-13 08:05 pm (UTC)Said as she lets her free hand fingers brush fondly against an apple tree.
"It's ours. Narnia is ours. And we are Narnia's."
That last part is especially important.
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Date: 2014-01-13 08:47 pm (UTC)Apart from the fact that he was sharing it with her. Apart from the knowledge that--someday--they might be blessed with a child to share it with as well.
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Date: 2014-01-14 02:43 am (UTC)Since they can share this together, even if she cannot share it with the others she loves.
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Date: 2014-01-14 04:53 am (UTC)"Which-- tower is the best for watching the stars, then?"
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Date: 2014-01-15 04:16 am (UTC)Fitting, really, as it's facing towards the Great Eastern Sea, Aslan, and the Emperor himself.
"We used to go up there at night sometimes, just the four of us, and look at the stars and the sea."
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Date: 2014-01-15 05:26 am (UTC)"It must be beautiful."
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Date: 2014-01-15 05:34 am (UTC)And she squeezes his hand tightly once more again, in fondness and against the brief flicker in his smile and the slight pain in her heart.
"We should go, when it gets darker."
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Date: 2014-01-15 05:42 am (UTC)"If you'd like."
He certainly would, after all.
"We'll have... worlds of time to."
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Date: 2014-01-15 06:10 am (UTC)And likely, there would be quite a bit of time spent on the Eastern tower. It was simply the way of things.
"But what better way to spend our first night at home?"
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Date: 2014-01-15 06:16 am (UTC)Nothing more perfect than spending this afternoon exploring the twists and turns of their new home. Nothing better than settling in tonight under the stars before slipping back down to the warmth of their bed.
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Date: 2014-01-15 06:27 pm (UTC)In the best way that they knew how: Together.
ooc;
Date: 2014-01-16 04:30 am (UTC)Re: ooc;
Date: 2014-01-16 04:58 am (UTC)