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called_lionessSpeaking with Chiara was amazing and fun and what she wanted, so badly--or one thing--since she was so much younger.
And so Lucy hestitantly--cautiously--decides as she pulls her dressing gown over her nightgown that perhaps she could try it again, what the Dream King offered.
There's just...One problem, first.
And she is, perhaps, a bit nervous as she looks over at Caspian.
And so Lucy hestitantly--cautiously--decides as she pulls her dressing gown over her nightgown that perhaps she could try it again, what the Dream King offered.
There's just...One problem, first.
And she is, perhaps, a bit nervous as she looks over at Caspian.
Caspian
Date: 2006-08-22 04:39 am (UTC)Stop.
Start again.
"I...thought I'd sleep in my room tonight."
Father
Date: 2006-08-22 04:41 am (UTC)It's London.
This is new, but--it makes sense, too. Her father was almost always in London, when she saw him.
It's London, and it's the park, and she sits on the bench, for a moment, and waits patiently.
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-22 04:43 am (UTC)It had been a long day and Lucy's restless sleep perhaps keeps his own lighter than he is likely to admit to her, the result being that a day of labor on the Hope and in the stables, short-handed as they are, just about does him in.
"Your room?"
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-22 04:44 am (UTC)The twins are listening with interest.
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-22 05:03 am (UTC)Bemused, he looks up at her as she pulls away.
"But why? Did I..." But he trails off, uncertain even of what he might have done to convince Lucy it would be better to sleep alone this night.
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-22 06:04 am (UTC)"I just--I can't tonight. Not with you." There's hesitation, as she thinks on how to put things and pushes hair from his face.
"You'll sleep better without me here," and it's a little resigned, "anyway."
A little resigned, and her eyes are a little troubled, too, and a little sad, as she smiles at him.
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 02:34 am (UTC)"Of course you can sleep where you like, Lu, but why tonight? And why not with me?"
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 02:39 am (UTC)"You shall, and you need it, for there's no reason for the both of us to be tired. For that alone, I should sleep elsewhere. But because--" And she stops, and says, slowly, "You don't remember your parents, but you were one, so mayhap you'll understand. I--I've no shame in the fact that I share a bed with you. You know this, yes?"
Because she thinks that matters, before she tries and explains everything else.
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 02:56 am (UTC)"But, I still don't understant."
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 03:05 am (UTC)That makes her stop and frown.
"She would not," carefully, "be happy with me."
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 03:17 am (UTC)And he does. Yet--
His voice is soft.
"Why are you worried about your parents now?"
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 03:24 am (UTC)She knows she's working up to the answer, but she hasn't told him of speaking with Dream, because she--doesn't understand, entirely, herself, or doesn't want to, at least, and she knows she'll have to, for this.
"I spoke with Lord Morpheus," she says, finally, and looks down at him with the same faint smile and eyes that aren't entirely there, and a little sad. "Rather, he spoke with me. Approached me."
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 03:39 am (UTC)Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 03:52 am (UTC)She stands and begins to walk, because it's a little easier to think this way than sitting still, even by him.
"I don't know that I can explain it. I don't--" And Lucy is frustrated, as she pushes her hair back.
"He told me," she says, slowly, "many things. I--I'll tell you, if you like. I probably should, but I--I never," and her smiles's crooked, "want to worry you. But one of them was that I could see people who I wished, when I dream like this."
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 03:57 am (UTC)"And you will see your parents tonight."
For all his matter-of-factness, there's sympathy too in his voice, and he edges himself to the side of the bed, trying without realizing it to get closer to her.
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 04:02 am (UTC)And, a little more quietly, "I'll tell you, if you want. It's just...it's hard. And I don't understand. And it hurts."
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 04:17 am (UTC)"Perhaps," slowly, "if you tell me, you will be able to understand more clearly."
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 04:22 am (UTC)Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 04:31 am (UTC)"Changing in what way?"
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 04:36 am (UTC)Her thumb rubs across his hand, briefly, as she looks at him and feels helpless and old and young and a million other things.
"It just."
And only that, because she doesn't know how to put it into words, though she's frowning as she thinks on it.
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 04:38 am (UTC)He's working hard to diguise his bemusement. There isn't any place for it now, he thinks, seeing the frown and wishing for it to be soothed away.
"The Endless speak in riddles."
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 04:40 am (UTC)"A little." It's the answer to his question, not how much she noticed.
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 04:44 am (UTC)Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 04:48 am (UTC)"I never fought to stay before."
Re: Caspian
Date: 2006-08-23 04:50 am (UTC)"Never?"