When I was a small girl, right after we had been newly crowned - perhaps only two or three months after the coronation, so I was eight years old, I got terribly lost. You see, my guard then were not so strict with watching me. They had thought I would not get lost so easily, or that I would not wander away. But even then I was a menace, and so I did.
I was a newly crowned queen and I had very little experience of my own country, for reasons of war, and so I found myself near a river we in Narnia call the Glass River for it's clearness and it's loveliness. And I knew it poorly, so I wandered up the way, until I came by an old cave. It was growing dark then.
It was so dark when I found my way inside, it was like night, and the river cut in that cave, and that was when I tripped and fell in and something incredible happened. The entire cave lit up, blue and bright, the water beneath me illuminated as though by stars. It was deep and wide and wild, a dark night with brilliant stars throughout.
[ He listens to it all, fascinated. It's so soothing to transport his mind away for a few moments, to not have to focus so solidly on the circumstances around him... ]
Bioluminescence, perhaps? None anywhere that I have been, personally, but I've heard of such places.
I have never been known for prudence, you know. And so I stayed there, skipping rocks, until I fell asleep, and my poor guard found me the next morning.
But now it is known as Queen Lucy's Folly, did you know? The cave. So think yourself lucky that your childhood mistakes are not so clearly labeled on maps designed by your vengeful royal brother.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
[She thinks of Mr. Tumnus for a moment. He was hers, really, more than he was Peter's.
She pauses a moment.]
What should I say?
no subject
no subject
Okay.]
When I was a small girl, right after we had been newly crowned - perhaps only two or three months after the coronation, so I was eight years old, I got terribly lost. You see, my guard then were not so strict with watching me. They had thought I would not get lost so easily, or that I would not wander away. But even then I was a menace, and so I did.
I was a newly crowned queen and I had very little experience of my own country, for reasons of war, and so I found myself near a river we in Narnia call the Glass River for it's clearness and it's loveliness. And I knew it poorly, so I wandered up the way, until I came by an old cave. It was growing dark then.
It was so dark when I found my way inside, it was like night, and the river cut in that cave, and that was when I tripped and fell in and something incredible happened. The entire cave lit up, blue and bright, the water beneath me illuminated as though by stars. It was deep and wide and wild, a dark night with brilliant stars throughout.
Have you known of such things?
no subject
Bioluminescence, perhaps? None anywhere that I have been, personally, but I've heard of such places.
no subject
I have never been known for prudence, you know. And so I stayed there, skipping rocks, until I fell asleep, and my poor guard found me the next morning.
But now it is known as Queen Lucy's Folly, did you know? The cave. So think yourself lucky that your childhood mistakes are not so clearly labeled on maps designed by your vengeful royal brother.
no subject
I wouldn't mind having a cave named after me.
no subject
I have one on my land, you know. It is very small and a disagreeable raccoon lives inside it. I shall call it Admiral Naismith's Dream.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
But I am not a queen of this land. It is quite strange to say.
no subject
I find that it is very difficult to truly change one's identity. The belief required is staggering.
no subject
I am very poor at changing, I think.
Oh, Admiral, I do miss you. I hope you are safe.
no subject
I'm ... very much of the same mind myself. I'm beginning to feel nostalgia for crowded spaceship berths.
no subject
no subject