Film-verse casting, as per Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Set at the very end of The Silver Chair.Caspian's first line of dialogue is lifted almost verbatim from the book, and the rest of it may be part familiar to anyone who's seen the Doctor Who episode The Satan Pit.

Disclaimer: Characters you recognise belong to C. S. Lewis.


Eustace, staring, cannot quite believe his eyes; he's seen Caspian old and dying. Dead. And yet the man standing before him looks no older than the man he met on the Dawn Treader.

Caspian must feel Eustace's eyes on him, because he turns towards him and, at the sight of him, lets out a laugh full of joy. Caspian recognises him, remembers him.

"Eustace!" he says. "So you made it to the End of the World, after all!"

Really, Eustace thinks to himself, this place is so strange it almost isn't surprising to see an old man who was dead grow young again and live. He moves forward towards Caspian, holding his hands out in greeting.

Caspian smiles at him; Eustace thinks it a wistful smile, with more than a hint of yearning in it. Eustace, suspecting he knows what Caspian is thinking, wishes Edmund were here.

"Caspian," he says, his tone gentle. He watches Caspian attempt to speak, fail (then swallow), then try again.

"Eustace," Caspian says, his voice tight with emotion. I was right, then, Eustace thinks; the knowledge brings him little happiness. He gives Caspian what he hopes is an encouraging look.

"Eustace," Caspian says again. "When you go back ... if you talk to Ed ... just tell him ..." His voice breaks, and he won't look Eustace in the eye. Eustace says nothing; what can he say?

"Tell him I ..."

In the end, Eustace takes pity on him.

"Caspian, he knows."

The smile Caspian gives him in return is somehow brighter and more beautiful than the sun.