What would this look like? Deliberate, conscious, each party knowing exactly how much they're giving (away) and not; neither really prepared to give up their position to join the other full-time, but perfectly willing to dally a while. Linch out of his depth, natch. Tee hee! Where? That doesn't matter too much to me; a sea voyage would give it a certain defined time frame, but so would the necessity of Linch's return to Narrowhaven for Conclave, for example. Who else knows? Well, certainly not Edmund or Morgan, whose obliviousness is becoming legendary but for whom I still feel very kindly...

Rating? Well, this is not My Children's Narnia. Peter and the Dryads are all very well, but if Susan remembers the feeling of a man's arms when Tebbitt embraces her, she'd better have at least one human lover as a basis of comparison. How many children read this, anyway?

The Linch and Queen Susan shopping together? LOL!