Lucy Pevensie, The Valiant (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
called_lioness) wrote2006-07-30 10:17 pm
called_lioness) wrote2006-07-30 10:17 pm
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It's easier, now, in a way. Or something like it.
When she closes her eyes, she doesn't think of it as sleeping any more.
It's more like being totally, completely awake.
The beach again. No Susan, yet.
But she knows (she knows without questioning how) that Susan will show up in time.
It takes her a moment to realize she's sitting on the sand, and the water's soaking her and rushing around her skirts, and the knowledge makes her laugh as another wave hits her. She turns around, a little, to face the land, and her body serves as a shelter as, without thinking, her hands start to play with the wet sand.
She knows she could never make a castle like this with just her fingers and sand and water.
She does anyway, and as she hears the silent-sound (and somehow she hears it anyway, and that too makes her smile) of footsteps, she's adding the last tiny window, and thinking she can (almost) see a girl through it, sleeping on a bed.
Probably it's just almost, anyway.
When she closes her eyes, she doesn't think of it as sleeping any more.
It's more like being totally, completely awake.
The beach again. No Susan, yet.
But she knows (she knows without questioning how) that Susan will show up in time.
It takes her a moment to realize she's sitting on the sand, and the water's soaking her and rushing around her skirts, and the knowledge makes her laugh as another wave hits her. She turns around, a little, to face the land, and her body serves as a shelter as, without thinking, her hands start to play with the wet sand.
She knows she could never make a castle like this with just her fingers and sand and water.
She does anyway, and as she hears the silent-sound (and somehow she hears it anyway, and that too makes her smile) of footsteps, she's adding the last tiny window, and thinking she can (almost) see a girl through it, sleeping on a bed.
Probably it's just almost, anyway.