If you had been awake very, very late at night, when nearly everyone in the castle of Cair Paravel was sound asleep, and just happened to be in the rooms where Queen Susan and her husband slept, you would have seen a very small boy wandering down the corridor. This very small boy was named Rickon, and he was exploring ( Read more... )

They were back in Narnia ( Read more... )

( Edmund and Susan at the station )

Even if she didn't say it very often, Susan was very glad her brother was back on the island--this time, it seemed, to stay. But lately, she hadn't seen him all that much, mostly because now that Rickon was walking he had to be watched every second or else he would run off and get into some sort of mischief. It seemed Susan spent more of a time ( Read more... )

Susan knew there was something wrong when Shadow woke her before Rickon did, whining and pawing at the side of the bed. She got out of bed and pulled a robe on against the chill of the house, whispering to her wolf, "What's wrong, Shadow?" Shadow padded across the house to Lucy's room, scratching at the door and whining. Frowning, Susan opened ( Read more... )

The island snow always got Susan in a Christmas-y mood, and this year was no exception. She bundled Rickon up in his snowsuit and took him up to the compound, where he amused himself in a corner of the kitchen banging measuring cups and spoons together while she baked sugar cookies. Not something she was used to having at home, but she had seen ( Read more... )

Susan and Jon had avoided speaking about Ygritte ever since Jon had gone and convinced Ygritte to come back from wherever it was she had been hiding. Even after her encounter with Ygritte at the archery range, she had not spoken of her at all to Jon. She knew it was dishonest, and yet after the conversation in which she had confessed her feelings ( Read more... )

For the moment, the house was quiet; Jon was on patrol with Robb, Lucy was at school, and Rickon, blessedly, had just gone down for a nap with a minimum of fuss. Susan felt like she had a chance to catch her breath, which was nice. There were a great many things that needed doing while Rickon napped--some clothes to be mended, clean laundry to be ( Read more... )

It had been almost two weeks since Jon had returned from the Dawn Treader expedition to Susan's less-than-warm welcome, and things between them had not improved a great deal. It was making Susan heartsick, and she had long had enough of them being at odds with each other. She had never been one for confrontation or conflict--she was the gentle ( Read more... )

Susan was still rather upset about Jon's leaving her to go off with the Dawn Treader crew, but she had put that aside for the time being, thinking about how excited Lucy and Edmund would be--especially Lucy--that Peter had arrived. They were due back any time now, and as Susan was both dreading and anticipating it, she kept herself busy, going out ( Read more... )