I Was Once a Queen
summary: At her siblings' funerals, Susan reminsicenes and remembers. Based on the song "Yesterday," by Switchfoot.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, etc. You know the routine.
Susan chewed numbly on a Ritz cracker. The black cars in the driveway, the flowers...she couldn't believe she had to attend a funeral for a member of her family already. It seemed that just yesterday they were ruling Narnia together.
"Ruling Narnia?" Susan questioned her thought out loud in a whispered. "What am I thinking? Narnia's not real. I'm just getting wrapped up in our memories as kids because now I'll possibly never see any of them. We may have broken off a bit- I think I spoke to them each about once a month. But I still loved them. I regret not talking to them more, even if we had nothing in common."
Deciding she needed a breath of fresh air, Susan pushed her way through the crowd of friends and family and made her way to the back door. Just as she opened the door, a north wind blew, brushing her hair back. "That feels just like the calming winds in Narnia on a clear spring day." Susan thought.
"The wind? Just yesterday? Of all days, I'm thinking about childish games at my sibling's funeral!" Susan exclaimed to the world.
All of the sudden, Susan had an urge to run to the Professor's house and look at the wardrobe. Just to make sure it really had been a game.
When the rain started dropping from the sky, she knew. She could feel it move in her again- "Narnia was never a game. It is real. It was always real. I went there. I was a Queen." She whispered. Susan reflected on her fruitless life in London.
"I was a Queen."