Sing Down The Stars - for edenfalling

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Title: Sing Down The Stars
Author: snacky
Recipient: edenfalling
Rating: Teen
Disclaimer: Characters, situations, settings, belong to C.S. Lewis/Walden Media.
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Assume spoilers for The Silver Chair/canonical character death.
Summary: Rilian returns to Narnia, and his story begins.

Author's notes: Thanks to my betas, unsuitenedt and rthstewart for all their help. And thanks to edenfalling for such a great prompt! I'd had this story in mind for a long time, so when I saw it on your list of prompts, I jumped on it. Bookverse, not movieverse, as requested, although I took the liberty of giving Ramandu's Daughter a name.

( Sing Down The Stars... )

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Original prompt we sent you:
What I want: I would adore a The Last Battle AU in which there is NOT a train accident. Jill and Eustace get to Narnia anyhow, they and Tirian save the country without Aslan declaring Game Over, and they are now too old and must go home to England forever. They and the Pevensies grow up and get jobs. Some of them marry and have children. (I'd love this to be a Jill/Eustace story, if possible.) Susan continues to drift away, though she may be reconciled at some point as she grows older.

Then maybe twenty years later, when the Friends of Narnia are together for a reunion, the adults overhear some of their children talking about a peculiar adventure they had in a country where animals talk, and there was a Lion... :-)

Please don't feel obligated to write that! But I never liked the ending of TLB and I feel that if learning to know Aslan in Narnia was practice for knowing him in England, then we ought to see examples of how to live in mid-twentieth-century England as a good and noble person. Otherwise what is the point?

More ideas I'd love to read:

1. The first post-Winter interaction between Narnia and Archenland - the Pevensies meeting Lune, Narnians having to relearn how to deal with the surrounding human-dominated lands, etc. Friendship or tension are both fine.

2. What happened in Narnia in the years around the death of the Tree of Protection, and whether Jadis killed it or it just died of old age

3. Caspian fighting giants before VoDT, maybe using the war to help unite Telmarine Narnia with Old Narnia

4. Rillian having to prove he's himself (and not enchanted) upon his return to Narnia, possibly dealing with Miraz's son or other descendants trying to claim the throne

Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: "....for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike." Also, swords and swordfights are always welcome. :-)

What I definitely don't want in my fic: incest, the Pevensies or Caspian having sex during PC, anyone having sex during VoDT, film canon instead of book canon, any Pevensie/Caspian shipping