[For Caspian]

[lifeisnotasong]

It was growing late by the time Eddara was persuaded into a bath and then into a clean nightgown. Eddara was humming to herself and kicking her little feet as Sansa brushed her hair and tied it back with a ribbon. "Who do you want to read you your story," Sansa asked Eddara holding her close. She'd grown so much and seemed to be bigger everyday.

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[caspianthetenth]

"You needn't shout, Eddara," Caspian said gently, sitting down on the edge of the bed and gathering her up in his lap. "I'm right here." He knew Sansa despaired that Eddara would ever learn her manners--he could picture Sansa at Eddara's age, sitting primly and never raising her voice--but unlike Lady Catelyn, Sansa did not have a castle full of servants and a stern septa at her disposal. (It probably did not help matters that Caspian was just short of spoiling Eddara quite rotten.) "What have you chosen?"

[lifeisnotasong]

Eddara pouts a little but is distracted by the question. And the fact that she can now settle in his lap. She has picked an old favourite. "Moon," she said, in a much quieter voice, holding out the book for Caspian. "Rabbit."

"I'm not sure we need the book for that one," Sansa teased her and Eddara prised the book open, before surrendering it to Caspian.

"Pretty," she explained, patting at the pictures and the squirming so she could look up at Caspian eager for the story

[caspianthetenth]

"Little Nutbrown Hare, who was going to bed," Caspian read, "held on tight to Big Nutbrown Hare's very long ears."

"Ears," Eddara echoed and reached for Sansa's ears; Caspian distracted her by gently tugging at her ears instead. "Ears!" Eddara squealed.

"Who is telling this story, you or I?" he asked her, teasing, and began to read again.

[lifeisnotasong]

Eddara reached for the book as if to say she could read the story and then clamped her hands over her ears when Sansa reached to tickle them. "Mine ears," she said. But then she realised she couldn't hear the story - or her parents laughing at her and she relented. However she was prepared to argue with Caspian whenever he read about the hares. "Rabbit," she said peering at the pictures. "Bunnies!"

"No, sweetling," Sansa assured her. "Hares, see how big the ears are. Rabbit's are smaller"

"Ears!" Eddara said again.

"And the legs are different too," Sansa said which caused Eddara to poke at her with one bare foot. Sansa tickled her and Eddara squealed pulled her foot away and began to tug on Caspian's shirt - as if to say why wasn't he reading.