the rapport between water and sand - for pencildragon11

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Title: the rapport between water and sand
Author: kitsuneasika
Recipient: pencildragon11
Rating: G
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: none that I can think of
Summary: Cair Paravel is full of strangers that night, fine men in fine clothing who do not quite belong in these halls usually filled with Talking Beasts and dwarves and all sorts of other Narnians. [Takes place about a month or two after the Pevensies become Kings & Queens of Narnia.]
Author’s Notes: The title was taken from a line from Andrew Zawacki's Credo. This was originally going to feature King Lune and his wife, but the story got away from me. Still, I hope you're satisfied with this, mystery recipient!

The prompts I ended up using were: Lucy being inept at homemaking/sewing/cooking | "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves" —Goethe | "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength."


( the rapport between water and sand )

Original Prompt that we sent you: What I want: Any or all of:
- Lune/Susan
- Narnia before the Winter
- Telmarine Narnia before Miraz
- what was the "poor little kangaroo" doing in the Witch's house?
- Swanwhite's reign as a sort of pre-Golden-Age golden age
- Jadis playing off of the legend of Swanwhite to gain power
- courtly speech,
- British Schoolchildren being Awesome,
- Lucy and a dragon
- Lucy being inept at homemaking/sewing/cooking--perhaps using glue to hold up the hem of a dress.
- Susan and Corin
- Susan and Mrs. Lune
- Caspian and Ramandu's Daughter
- Marshwiggles.

Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: Any or all:
- magic, wonder, idyll, adventure, knights-errant, quiet love, feasts and hunts and dances,
- "She walks in beauty, like the night."
- "These are the generations. . . . "
- "Peace hath her victories / No less renowned than war," (Milton).
- "Peredur stood and likened the exceeding blackness of the raven, and the whiteness of the snow, and the redness of the blood, to the hair of the woman he loved best, which was black as jet, and her flesh to the whiteness of the snow, and the redness of the blood in the white snow to the two red spots in the cheeks of the woman he loved best," (Culhwch and Olwen).
- "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves," (Goethe).
- "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength."
- "'Marilla,' she demanded presently, 'do you think I shall ever have a bosom friend in Avonlea?'" (Anne Shirley).
- "Here, it is different. Here, one cannot kiss the princess until one has broken the enchantment."
- "However," [Eeyore] said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately," (Milne).
- "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."