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[kitchen_maid]

Amy comes in this evening, bent nearly double, inching forward.

It's a very odd way to walk, really.

Unless, of course, you're helping your daughter learn to walk.

Then it make perfect sense.

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[the_seafarer]

When Susan stops and looks up (and up, an up), it's because there's a familiar looking figure standing in front of her, eyes wide with something that's making them bright and joyful, and a smile on his face.

"You're almost there, Susan," Caspian says, encouragingly, bending down a little. "Don't give up!"

[kitchen_maid]

Susan gives him a look. She's just resting for a second, Uncle Caspian. Princesses of Ambergeldar do not "give up."

"Casp'an," she says, happily, and sets off again.

"Hello," adds Amy, looking up at her brother as well.

[the_seafarer]

"Hullo," he says, holding out his hands to Susan, who is taking determined if not exactly firm steps towards him. "By the Lion, Amy, she's getting so big."

[kitchen_maid]

"A year next month," says Amy. "I can't quite believe it."

Susan takes one, two, three, three and a half, three and three quarters, four more steps and reaches her Uncle.

"Casp'an!"

This is the part where she gets a hug, Uncle Caspian.

[alec_or_alonzo]

"Goodness gracious, Amy! Look how big she is!"

This exuberantly from across the room.

[kitchen_maid]

Amy looks up from her half-crouch and smiles.

"Hello, Phil."

Susan looks up, gets distracted, wobbles, and falls.

A certain Royal Highness squashes up her face and starts to cry.

[alec_or_alonzo]

Phil gasps and rushes over.

"Oh, Amy, I'm so terribly sorry."

She crouches down to see if making a funny face will perhaps get a certain Royal Highness to stop crying.

[kitchen_maid]

"She'll be fine," says Amy. "It happens frequently, Nurse Marta tells me, when babies learn to walk."

Susan looks at the funny face. She's still rather frowny, but the gulping sobs stop.

The funny face is . . . well, funny.