Thanks to all readviewers! I'm not planning to write a reunion scene, but I imagined that Chered might be one of the Calormenes invited to Cor and Aravis' wedding.
Prompt: Tell a parable or fable (includes animals), a story with a moral.
A young Rabbit had very good ears. Whispers on the opposite side of a meadow were to clear to him, and he could even hear the insects burrowing in the ground and sap running through the trees. He delighted in testing how far he could hear, and finding what secrets others told when they assumed they were alone.
His mother warned him that this would lead to no good, but he paid this no heed, for he was young and exceptional.
One day his mother seemed unusually anxious for him to leave the warren, and he grew suspicious. As he hopped his way to the stream, a bucket secured on his back, he kept his ears focused on home. What he heard was plans for a surprise party for him, to be held in three days. This excited him tremendously. He dawdled along the path home, giving them more time to plan and himself more time to overhear. Over the next few days, he listened with glee any time he could get away with it.
But when the time came and the "surprise" was sprung, he felt strangely disappointed. All his excitement had been spent on the anticipation, and there was none left for the event itself. He acted happy, but a knowing look from his mother told him she guessed what had happened.
From now on, he decided, he would not try to hear what was meant for other ears.