The Queen's Return

[Elkhound]

Some of you may also be fans of Narnia; if so, you need to read this.  I could almost believe that Lewis returned from Beyond and gave this story to the author:
http://honorh.livejournal.com/226358.html

[AnnieUK]

What a lovely story. It has made me quite tearful.

[Elkhound]

So many people were angry at Lewis for leaving Susan out of The Last Battle.  And so many of them seem to have missed the point.  Just because Susan didn't join her siblings in the new paradise then didn't mean that she would never do so.  Still less the idea that some writer--I forget who--that a young girl is damned by growing up and becoming a woman.  In "A Horse & His Boy" Queen Susan is shown as a young adult woman perfectly willing to accept a suitable suitor---and fully capable of rejecting an unsuitable one.

"Once a King or Queen in Narnia," said Aslan, "always a King or Queen in Narnia."  When you remember that, you will know that Susan will find her way back.  At the end of "The Last Battle" she is a young woman who has lost her parents and siblings in a massive railroad disaster;  which is very sad, but such things happen.  We don't know what happens to her after that, but as in this world we have to have faith in the Creator, so in a fantasy world we must have faith in the Subcreator that things will work themselves out in time.

[Evie]

How wonderfully beautiful, and so full of grace.  Thank you for sharing that link!

[derynifanatic64]

Definitely a great story!

[Jerusha]

Well done and well crafted.