*stares*

That's it, as soon as finals are over (and I have five days between my last final and the day I fly home), I'm doing my own map of Narnia. I have graph paper specifically for this purpose.

If it's not one thing, it's ten other ones.

Now it's the friggin' Narnian road system, designed and built during the Golden Age by Edmund and Peter, more or less unused, abandoned, and overgrown by the Telmarine era, and rebuilt during the Second Telmarine Age by Absalian the Blind, who used some of the maps remaining from the Golden Age. The lionsroad and the roseroad are mentioned in both Dust and some of my Golden Age fics; there's at least one more that hasn't been named yet.

Okay, we do not have to go into this much detail in Dust. Hello, babygirl, we don't need the intimate details of the Narnian road system, past and present.

cair paravel is new orleans, no, really

Oh, this is so like me to decide 1500 words in that this chapter might make a better Tirian POV than it would a Peter POV. I mean, I think it would work either way, but it might work better with the outsider POV, if only so I can wax rhapsodic about the look on Peter's face when he first sees Cair Paravel. Which is even more woe-like than in PC when he realizes that he's standing on the ruins of his castle and looking like he's just found his mother's grave; looking at the sprawling city of Cair Paravel, Calormene ships standing at anchor in the harbor and the countryside stripped bare, is like finding his mother's grave and realizing she's been dug up and flayed for shoe leather.

And this is before he gets involved with the thriving criminal underground. Also the brothels. I need to figure out how to bring those into the actual plot.

Okay, I feel bad doing this, but I can't not. I mean -- this is like a compulsion for me. I can't not do this. This isn't Golden Age Narnia. This isn't even close.

I desperately want icons that use the mirrored images from LWW and PC. Adamson went out of his way to do this, people! I wish I had icon-making capabilities. *dramatic sigh* There's -- Peter and Caspian with their wardrobes, the scan up to Cair Paravel, Lucy stepping up to the same exact window balcony and looking out at the shore/ocean, the centaur honor guard, the frolicking, the Pevensies on their thrones/the bases of their thrones...I mean, it depresses hell out of me when I think about it too closely, but hi, this is Narnia, I'm either ecstatic or depressed ninety percent of the time.

Hmm. I wonder if I can mirror with images in Dust too? Suddenly I want to.

Huh. I think I'll have Peter get roofied in Cair Paravel. (Guys, you do not even want to know what's on my list of stuff I want to put into Dust. Some of what's on there includes: puzzle boxes, torture, antique dealers, drugs, origami animals, and acupuncture.)

Note to self: must remember that there are giants in Narnia and that we see them in books and movies. Just never in the Warsverse, because hey! Number one on the list of things I forget to write.

Must also remember to get the Pevensies onto the nameless island -- Old Cair Paravel -- at some point. CAIR PARAVEL, BABY, WE MISS YOU. Also, we are bitter at the fact that LWW never showed more of you, although perhaps that's all to the better, except not.