And it sounds as if she knew their Disappearance was coming. ... I hope Edmund will learn of this one day (before the train wreck, perhaps?).. though, perhaps he had an inkling of this? Which is why he won't speak of her and what he heard at the Wall of Lilies?
See above. This has been in the works for a really, really long time. Peter specifically mentions "children" among those lost to them in Chpater 2 of TQSiT. NO ONE has ever commented on that line. In the recent flashback, when Edmund is wondering where Morgan has gone because the Morgan who is with him is acting odd, this is the reason why. She does know it is coming, has known for a long time, and has been given choices. This is also why, way back in Part 1 when Lucy speaks to Mrs. Beaver, there is a mention of Aidan's small relations. I have been working up to this for a long time.
Edmund was the deliberate choice here - despite all the fandom cliche which has been the primary reason for my hesitation in going forward -- well that and the thud of story fail. It wasn't Peter. I could not see how I could separate Susan or Lucy from their child. So, Edmund, who is never certain and doesn't believe -- not without reason -- became the choice and then the only issue was whether I used Morgan or invent someone else. As for if Edmund will learn, well, again, that's part of a scene that has been in my head since 2008 and will be in the story, eventually.
One day, rth, I hope to see you write more of what went on in Prince Caspian when the Four did return. Were the Guards' descendants on hand when the Pevensies returned? And if so, did they speak of the past? I could see an argument breaking out among the Beasts over who guarded the Monarchs' consorts with Edmund and Lucy just devastated and Peter yelling at them all to shut up. I think Edmund would be very much, "Oh, you are mistaken. I didn't have a child." To allow him to continue to deny it is why I made the history so ambiguous in the last chapter, which is I think defensible canonically. Thank you so much. You have been here from the very, very beginning and this marks a showing of a lot of the cards that I've been hiding and shuffling in the deck for a long time. One of the foundational reasons I started writing in Narnia was to provide an alternate to the brutal violence and abandonment and chaos of most fic dealing with the departure. It's been hard to accept that I can't manage to tell that part of the story in a way that people want to read it so thank you for sticking with it!
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See above. This has been in the works for a really, really long time. Peter specifically mentions "children" among those lost to them in Chpater 2 of TQSiT. NO ONE has ever commented on that line. In the recent flashback, when Edmund is wondering where Morgan has gone because the Morgan who is with him is acting odd, this is the reason why. She does know it is coming, has known for a long time, and has been given choices. This is also why, way back in Part 1 when Lucy speaks to Mrs. Beaver, there is a mention of Aidan's small relations. I have been working up to this for a long time.
Edmund was the deliberate choice here - despite all the fandom cliche which has been the primary reason for my hesitation in going forward -- well that and the thud of story fail. It wasn't Peter. I could not see how I could separate Susan or Lucy from their child. So, Edmund, who is never certain and doesn't believe -- not without reason -- became the choice and then the only issue was whether I used Morgan or invent someone else. As for if Edmund will learn, well, again, that's part of a scene that has been in my head since 2008 and will be in the story, eventually.
One day, rth, I hope to see you write more of what went on in Prince Caspian when the Four did return. Were the Guards' descendants on hand when the Pevensies returned? And if so, did they speak of the past? I could see an argument breaking out among the Beasts over who guarded the Monarchs' consorts with Edmund and Lucy just devastated and Peter yelling at them all to shut up. I think Edmund would be very much, "Oh, you are mistaken. I didn't have a child." To allow him to continue to deny it is why I made the history so ambiguous in the last chapter, which is I think defensible canonically.
Thank you so much. You have been here from the very, very beginning and this marks a showing of a lot of the cards that I've been hiding and shuffling in the deck for a long time. One of the foundational reasons I started writing in Narnia was to provide an alternate to the brutal violence and abandonment and chaos of most fic dealing with the departure. It's been hard to accept that I can't manage to tell that part of the story in a way that people want to read it so thank you for sticking with it!