So strong is the conviction that worship of the Princess of Night is something for children alone that stories of the four little gods that she is mentioned only when it need be said that the King of Evening has a daughter. If the books wish to describe her in detail, they say that children have many stories about her, each featuring themselves as co-protagonist, none therefore worth the retelling.
When the story begins spreading that the little gods again walk Narnia in human form, the children's cult grows in fervor. Perhaps the Princess of Night cannot join her father and his siblings in Narnia in flesh and blood—she is, after all, only a demigoddess, and a tiny one—but she still has power and she still has a voice, she can still act on behalf of Narnia's children and ask favors of the King of Evening, she can still face her rival Zardeenah, she can still ask her friend Zardeenah to leave Narnia to the Narnians and keep all of Calormen for Zardeenah's own. And the more one does with and for the Princess of Night, every child knows, the greater her power and the louder her voice.
At some point Edmund of Narnia may hear the stories about his daughter. He will be startled worse by knowing that she has become myth than by learning that he has. He will try telling the children that she died a toddler, that she was—not 'just human', Mehcal was not entirely human—just people, just people like him, and they will nod sagely and carry on weaving flowers into Saiet's crown. They already know that the little gods have strange beliefs about their own divinity.
She is the children's tiny goddess, Saiet, Princess of Night; she is the daughter of Evening and she is the Princess of the Stars, and she must flee before the dawn.
Re: if you still want prompts, feel free to make like this is one, pt 2
Date: 2009-04-21 05:26 pm (UTC)When the story begins spreading that the little gods again walk Narnia in human form, the children's cult grows in fervor. Perhaps the Princess of Night cannot join her father and his siblings in Narnia in flesh and blood—she is, after all, only a demigoddess, and a tiny one—but she still has power and she still has a voice, she can still act on behalf of Narnia's children and ask favors of the King of Evening, she can still face her rival Zardeenah, she can still ask her friend Zardeenah to leave Narnia to the Narnians and keep all of Calormen for Zardeenah's own. And the more one does with and for the Princess of Night, every child knows, the greater her power and the louder her voice.
At some point Edmund of Narnia may hear the stories about his daughter. He will be startled worse by knowing that she has become myth than by learning that he has. He will try telling the children that she died a toddler, that she was—not 'just human', Mehcal was not entirely human—just people, just people like him, and they will nod sagely and carry on weaving flowers into Saiet's crown. They already know that the little gods have strange beliefs about their own divinity.
She is the children's tiny goddess, Saiet, Princess of Night; she is the daughter of Evening and she is the Princess of the Stars, and she must flee before the dawn.