#prince cor

For @221bdragonslayer as we remember the universe we created and the fanfic I still need to properly finish so that this edit has context for literally anyone else. <3

(For Shasta in the fog.)

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In the dark, in the dark–in the dark and cold–

Pines dripping, wind biting, and path untold–

A boy rides alone, and his sorrow seethes.

But something unseen at his side, it breathes;

Warm and deep and slow and wild.

A voice in the shadows comes, rich and mild.

It had waited long for him to speak,

Holding all answers he could seek.

If he wanted Truth, he had only to ask.

What lies behind his every task?

Whose are his sorrows, and whose his hope?

Who sheltered him there at the end of his rope,

That night in the tombs when ghouls he feared?

Who brought him in safely when death he neared

As a wailing child at the edge of the sea?

What lurks past his every memory?

In the dark, in the dark, triune voices call,

Echoing forth from a singular footfall,

And the fog's shroud is fading into white,

Quarterfinals

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You know that one paragraph in the last chapter from "The Horse And His Boy" talking about how Cor and Aravis 'kept fighting a lot as they grew up, but always found a way to make up, and then they got so used to fight and make up that they decided to marry just to keep fighting and making up with each other again and again' ?

So, right after reading that single passage, my mind couldn't stop thinking like:

"Mmm... is it just me, or this kind of sounds like how a romance between Caspian and Peter would probably turn out in an AU where the Pevensies never left Narnia after "Prince Caspian" ends? 🤔"

Does someone else see what I see?