Title: The Little Things (Are Infinitely the Most Important)
Author: Arisprite
Rating: K+/T
Warnings: Spoliers through the whole series, some AU, much angst. One or two swear words.
Summary: 100 Sentences of Narnian tales and life in Spare Oom. Prompts stolen from KCS's watson-woes lj prompt list.
A/N: I've done this before, and I have to say it's great fun! 100 sentences, some aulluding to events in the stories, some made up. Plot bunnies free for the taking (Please tell me if you do!), and I myself will probably be exapanding a few of these too. I've fallen head long into the Narnia fandom (with most of the blame/debt falling to elecktrum and her amazing stories, not to mention all the other great work on this site!) and I hope to write more in it. Enjoy! This is the first 20/100.
1. Murder
King Edmund was terrifying to behold as another villager was reported dead and ravished, the fauns blood spelling vengeance for their fallen Queen.
2. Nightmare
Clearly visible through the blood dripping into her eyes were Helen's four children, broken on the ground.
3. Grief
It wasn't until after Caspian X's coronation that Lucy let herself think of all the friends she'd left behind a year ago, now a thousand years dead.
4. Late Nights
The newly crowned monarchs took great joy in making their own decisions, in particular, that no one could order them to bed; after a few days, their training masters and tutors ensured that they dove into bed as soon as they could get away.
5. Breathe
Tumnus found the courage to lie to the White Witch's face by remembering sweet little girl dimples, and ordering himself to "breathe, you idiot!"
6. Shoot
Susan didn't even realize the first time her arrows pierced flesh rather than a straw target (though she was quite ill afterwards) because all that matter was that her little sister was safe in her arms.
7. Fire
The fire dancers from Calorman were a great hit, and the crown rose and oohed appreciatively at every burst of flame -though Peter and Edmund were not happy when the youngest queen was chosen to be the maiden sacrificed in the flaming dragon trick.
8. Missing
The cat in the arm chair wouldn't talk (and indeed never would, as it was an English kitty through and through) and though Lucy cajoled it with treats of tuna and head scratches, it only purred.
9. Darkness
"Well, this is a fine mess you've gotten us into, Pete," Edmund grumbled, and stretched to keep the dank walls pressed against him, for there is nothing so stomach-turning as finding no wall in the dark, when you expected there to be one.
10. Light
The shaft of light from the opening door, pierced Peter's eyes like one of Susan's arrows, and it took a moment for him to acknowledge the shape that stood framed in the doorway.
11. Choke
"Oh, there you two are!" Lucy exclaimed, while Susan hid laughter behind a demure hand, "Whatever are you doing in the fruit cellar?"
12. Helpless
Mrs. Pevensie's thoughts were on the train station as she entered her now empty home; she wished with all her heart to keep them safe, yet she wanted them back with her in that bomb-ridden city at that very moment, damn the danger!
13. Negotiate
Eustace argued that it was the only way he and his cousin could have any semblance of civility in his bedroom, as he traced a chalk line across the precise center of the floor: of course Edmund would put his big toe just across the line to be cheeky-Eustace was tempted to stomp on it.
14. Blind
Edmund hated this-gripping his head, and hearing only silence from his network of contacts; the king had no idea where his siblings were.
15. Haunt
The children were so different after the country; clumsy, morose, drifting waif-like through the house...looking around corners and entering rooms as if they expected to see some other place, and hiding their flashes of disappointment at only finding their haggard mother.
16. Embrace
Their hugs were no longer a let's-wait-for-mother-to-come-make-every-thing-better hug, but were completely self-supported; they no longer needed her, she realized.
17. Silent
If you want to play a good game of hide and seek, enlist the Great Cats.
18. Work
The great harvest, in the first spring after the great winter, had found every hand willing and able out in the fields; the four Kings and Queens grinning at each other as they wiped the sweat from their brows, and got back to work.
19. Rescue
"Help! Oh someone help me please!" Came the cry, and a large spotted Dog bounded over in alarm-turned-amusement at the sight of King Edmund buried in Dalmatian puppies.
20. Die
"To die would be an awfully big adventure..." Floated through Lucy's head in the seconds before the train impacted.
