"Susan and Lucy, yes." There was obvious affection in the way he spoke the names, and in the names he added with gentleness, "With their brothers, High King Peter and King Edmund."
The Pevensies had been an integral part of Narnian history. They had turned, amazingly, into an integral part of Caspian's own personal history. It couldn't help but please him even further to know his own dear Anne was the same sort of woman as those who had been most important to him; would probably make the same sort of Queen having grown and flourished in the same lands they had.
"It was-- easier for them, when they first arrived, than I know it has been for you." They had been fulfilling a prophecy, after all, once the battle against Jadis was won. Anne had been, in the eyes of the court, less a prophecy and more a distraction from the King picking a proper Queen. "But you've been-- getting quite a bit more settled, haven't you?"
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The Pevensies had been an integral part of Narnian history. They had turned, amazingly, into an integral part of Caspian's own personal history. It couldn't help but please him even further to know his own dear Anne was the same sort of woman as those who had been most important to him; would probably make the same sort of Queen having grown and flourished in the same lands they had.
"It was-- easier for them, when they first arrived, than I know it has been for you." They had been fulfilling a prophecy, after all, once the battle against Jadis was won. Anne had been, in the eyes of the court, less a prophecy and more a distraction from the King picking a proper Queen. "But you've been-- getting quite a bit more settled, haven't you?"