ponderings

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Aslan's How: still around by LB? I wouldn't see why not, but I really feel no particular inclination to the Narnians in there again. Maybe have Peter and Co. ride past it and regard it in silence before moving onwards. I know that the deleted scenes from PC say that only the mice know about it, but seriously, it is a big mound in the middle of the country. It is a holy site! If not everyone knew about it, then I would be shocked beyond shocked. When I was writing Water, I had Caspian wax rhapsodic on it: the How is a stronghold that was built during the Dying Times, after the Belgarine-Natarene invasion and before the Telmarine conquest, and the Telmarines have legends of it.

The underground lake from SC: still around by LB? It seems a little like overkill, but I can't really see what it would be good for, unless I'm planning on drowning Calormenes somewhere outside of Narnia!Salamis.

Huh. Rereading Water to double-check on the How situation, I kind of want to go back to it. I do still have a significant amount of Story left.

...ahahahahaha, I'd forgotten I wrote this into Water.

“Well,” Lucy says, “when the call went out they brought everyone of fighting age. Mostly the males of fighting age –” she makes a face, and Peta smiles wryly, “– but there are a few women too. It’s just that most of them don’t know how to fight. There are some bowmen, and a lot of folk that know how to use a sling, and some who know how to use spears, but there are hardly any swordsmen or real fighters. Glenstorm says that his family has been preparing for this for time out of mind, and he’s just about got the only real fighters in the lot, him and some of the minotaurs, but the rest of them don’t know anything. I mean, there is a rumor that there’s a troop of mercenaries coming out of Archenland –”

“Mercenaries?” Peta interrupts, frowning. “Who do you mean? Not –”

“Centaurs,” Lucy says. “Narnians that left years ago, back when the Telmarines first took over. They’re supposed to still be loyal to Narnia, but no one’s seen them, and no one knows if they’re anything more than a rumor. But if they do come, then they’re real fighters, ones with experience in battle.”

I didn't put the foreshadowing about the Red Company into a deleted scene from Dust 3 like I thought, I put the foreshadowing into the wrong friggin' story. (This was written the better part of a month before Dust 5.)

*highly amused* Oh, here is Peta telling off Reepicheep for being an idiot and starting the war early.

“Has your race lost what little intelligence it has in the past thirteen hundred years, or is this just you?” Peta demands of Reepicheep. “Because I remember mice that were brave, and noble, and valiant, and that had brains, and you are none of those things.”

Wait, where was I? Oh, Dust. Right. Actually, band concert. *sigh* I don't want to, I want to stay here and write and watch Narnia and Criminal Minds, which, yes, I'm aware that that is the weirdest combination ever.