The Quieter Kingdom
29 Birth
"Let the long days make you what you'll be, and what you'll be to me…"
He is born during the day, with her slender back arching to the same slope of the rising sun. Her screams run through the halls as the sun's light streams through the curtains.
Caspian waits quietly, watching somber handmaidens enter her bedchambers. Everything is ready for this arrival, everyone trained.
The birth is long, but smooth. The kingdom greets its heir joyously. Caspian thinks his wife glows brighter each minute she sits with Rilian.
That night he enters the nursery to the sound of her sweet lullaby. His son sleeps as she holds him, seated on a silver rocking chair.
