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The Queen in Exile by LindaMarie [R]
Fandom: Narnia
Why this story must be read:
I will say that this is a dark story, a path not taken that perhaps should be untrod. But it is important, I think, to recognize the despair Lewis engendered in his characters; to give them a paradise and then take it away, trusting to time and the process of unremembering to fix things, is a terrible thing. This story deftly tackles a possible unrealized reality.
Lucy remembers being this age as clear as she knows her own name. They were glorious times, and this new non-life, this rehash, is dim and sad and unnatural in comparison. When she was becoming a young woman, she was already being courted by nobels across the land, and those that really cared loved her not for her skills in the kitchen or laundry, but for the way she could (and would) outrun any boy her age, the way her hair ran daringly free and long without care. Everyone loved her because she was free and strong and she loved them all just as much in return.
The Queen in Exile
Why this story must be read:
I will say that this is a dark story, a path not taken that perhaps should be untrod. But it is important, I think, to recognize the despair Lewis engendered in his characters; to give them a paradise and then take it away, trusting to time and the process of unremembering to fix things, is a terrible thing. This story deftly tackles a possible unrealized reality.
Lucy remembers being this age as clear as she knows her own name. They were glorious times, and this new non-life, this rehash, is dim and sad and unnatural in comparison. When she was becoming a young woman, she was already being courted by nobels across the land, and those that really cared loved her not for her skills in the kitchen or laundry, but for the way she could (and would) outrun any boy her age, the way her hair ran daringly free and long without care. Everyone loved her because she was free and strong and she loved them all just as much in return.
The Queen in Exile
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(Anonymous) 2008-05-21 04:40 am (UTC)(link)The Queen in Exile (http://www.panavatar.net/luminescent/fanfiction/thequeeninexile.htm) <--- new link.
and ouch. dark.