It was, perhaps. But was losing Narnia not like a mother losing her own child too soon?
"We weren't-- finished." And that's the most difficult part of all this really. That there hadn't been enough time for her siblings to complete what they had wanted for Narnia. That there hadn't been enough time for her to let go.
That there hadn't been enough time for the two of them to understand better whatever it was between them.
"We were-- ready to lay down our lives for her. Had gotten so close to doing so, so many times. We were ready to leave a more lasting legacy-- we left behind people we loved Caspian, that first time around. And he said we were too old when we came to help you? He could have let us live and die there as we wished to, and then age would have been no trouble for us."
There wouldn't be this pull of being so many years older than they seemed. There wouldn't be this ache of loving one world while living in another.
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Date: 2014-02-03 03:12 am (UTC)"We weren't-- finished." And that's the most difficult part of all this really. That there hadn't been enough time for her siblings to complete what they had wanted for Narnia. That there hadn't been enough time for her to let go.
That there hadn't been enough time for the two of them to understand better whatever it was between them.
"We were-- ready to lay down our lives for her. Had gotten so close to doing so, so many times. We were ready to leave a more lasting legacy-- we left behind people we loved Caspian, that first time around. And he said we were too old when we came to help you? He could have let us live and die there as we wished to, and then age would have been no trouble for us."
There wouldn't be this pull of being so many years older than they seemed. There wouldn't be this ache of loving one world while living in another.