King Caspian and Queen Lilandil's Christmas Party
Disclaimer: I don't own Chronicles of Narnia, C S Lewis does.
The parlor in the castle was very large. The walls were colored. There were sofas and sofa chairs on both sides of the room; the floor was covered with a soft homemade red rug, and the huge fire from the fire place added warmth to the room. On the left side of the room was a window with red draperies that were drawn to show the twinkling lights of the dark sky. In the middle of the room was a tall non narnian Christmas tree. Caspian climbed the ladder and was placing some balls on the tree branches. While he was placing a blue one on one of the highest branches, Lilandil entered the room with Baby Rilian in her arms. When he saw them enter the room, his eyes were filled with delight, and he smiled at them. Baby Rilian cooed in delight.
"Hello darling, would you like me to help you decorate this tree?"
"Yes, sweetheart, can you hand me some more of the ornaments?"
"I'll have to put Rilian in his baby chair first," Lilandil answered.
"This will be your first Christmas, my little darling," she said sweetly to Baby Rilian while she put him in the baby chair and gave him his teddy bear.
Baby Rilian cooed and waved his teddy bear in response. She grabbed a few ornaments, including some that look like stars and candy canes and handed them to Caspian.
"He is going to love his first Christmas," Caspian said while he hung a candy cane shaped ornament on the tree."
"Yes, and he will enjoy the toys that Father Christmas will give him, and the food at the party."
"So will we, I can just imagine all the food that were are going to have at the feast including roast goose, mashed potatoes with gravy, plum pudding…"
"Yum. I'm glad the bakers, are willing to bake soft Christmas foods, for him to enjoy."
"Soon the bakers won't need to do that because I don't think it will be too long before he starts teething, darling," said Caspian.
"Let's make his first Christmas one of the happiest Christmases he will ever have," said Lilandil.
"This will be a wonderful Christmas for us too with our friends coming over and celebrating it with us," Caspian said.
Lilandil continued to hand the ornaments and some fruit to Caspian while he continued to hang them on the branches.
"It will be great to celebrate it with Reepicheep, Trumpkin, and the others," Caspian said while he put a Father Christmas ornament on one of the highest branches of the tree.
"Do you know what I was thinking," said Lilandil while she began to put some apples on the tree. "We should invite Shirley the Fox. She lost her husband a few months ago, and it is hard on her with no husband and no friends. She is so lonely."
"What happened to her friends?" Caspian asked.
"They deserted her when her husband died. They didn't give her any emotional support and none of them invited her to a Christmas party with their families. She will be alone this Christmas."
"She won't be alone," said Caspian while he climbed the ladder again and began to decorate the lower branches. "We can invite her to our party."
"That's a great idea, Caspian love. I will invite her tomorrow."
They continued to put all kinds of ornaments and fruit on the lower half of the tree until they were hanging on all the branches.
"Let's start putting the garland around the tree," said Caspian while he climbed the ladder again.
When Caspian got to the top (not the top ladder rung) Lilandil tossed one end of the yellow gold garland to him, and he began to wrap it around each branch of the tree climbing down every few steps, as each row of branches were decorated with it until he climbed down the ladder. Lilandil was moving the garland toward him all the while. When he got off the ladder, she handed him the rest of the garland while he continued to wrap the tree with it, when he got to the bottom branches, he handed it to Lilandil, and she finished decorating the tree. While they were decorating the tree, they were watching their son who seemed to be delighted with what they were doing.
Rilian was only five months old and did not know what was going on, but he sensed something great was happening because of all the activities that were going on around him and the joy he sensed in his parents voices. He dropped his bear and laughed in delight.
Caspian walked over to his son, picked up the bear and gave it to him. Then he lifted him out of the chair and carried him closer to the Christmas tree and watched her decorated the rest of the Christmas tree. While she was wrapping the garland around the tree, Baby Rilian became fascinated by one of the star ornaments on the tree and tried to grab it, but Caspian pulled his hand away from it, and stepped back a little while Rilian whimpered and continued to reach for the ornament.
"Look, how beautiful the tree is," she said to them.
They admired the tree for a few minutes before Caspian said. "It is very beautiful darling, but we need to put the gold star on top of the tree, and the manger underneath it."
While he was saying that Rilian began to yawn and rub his eyes with his chubby hands.
"Looks like Rilian is getting sleepy aren't you," he said while he spoke to the baby.
Rilian yawned again in response.
"Give him to me, love; I'll carry him to bed."
Caspian handed his son to his wife, and she walked out of the room with him in her arms. Baby Rilian fell asleep.
To be Continued