Author: PrincessPearl
Pairing: LilyCaspian
Prompt: Stars
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Not for the first time, Lily marvels over the fact that everything in Narnia is a thousand time more beautiful than it is in Earth.
"How do you mean?" Caspian asks her when she voices the thought one night while she's out on a porch watching the stars and breathing in the fresh air.
"Your architecture is brilliant," Lily explains, gesturing to the elegantly-carved wooden porch railing, depicting Lions and crowns. "Your plantlife is so much brighter and colorful. The air seems fresher. And the stars..."
"What about the stars?" Caspian murmurs, leaning closer, his blond hair ruffled by the night breezes and a smile playing on his face.
"They're so beautiful," Lily breathes, hands curling around the railing and head tilting upward to the night sky, studded with a million glowing, beautiful stars.
"They are," Caspian agrees, his hand reaching out and touching hers, their fingers twining. "I've always been fond of stargazing."
Lily smiles and closes her eyes, breathing in that sweet, fresh, Narnia air and praying she never has to leave the beauty and magic behind.
Later, when she's home again, she asks Lucy what happened to Caspian.
"Well," Lucy begins, her Narnia-expert look on her face, "after he sailed with Ed-Edmund and Lucy and Eustace on the Dawn Treader - I told you about that, right? - he returned to Narnia and married a star - Ramandu's daughter - and - Lily, are you all right?"
She never stargazes again.
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