It’s been a long day. A long week, really. And it shows every sign of being a long night ( Read more... )

( Or, as Bert put it: 'Oh, hell, we have to plan a wedding now, don't we?' )

When it's all over, they head outside together. Kitty and Peter are already there, so Cuthbert and Susan swerve away from the lake, heading toward the stables, and then around to the pasture in back of them.

They stand there in silence for a long time, Cuthbert leaning against one of the fences, Susan leaning against Cuthbert.

Sometime after this, Cuthbert is outside, sitting with his back against a tree near the edge of the forest.

There's a bottle of graf close at hand ( Read more... )

For days after talking to Alain, Cuthbert thinks it over.

When you're certain of it, Alain had advised. So Cuthbert spends five days thinking about it, looking at it from every angle he can ( Read more... )

Since getting the CDs and the machine that plays them from the bar, Cuthbert’s become fairly well acquainted with the group called the Beatles, listening to them often when he’s in a thoughtful mood or simply bored ( Read more... )

It's late.

Susan's asleep.

Cuthbert isn't.

Every time he gets to the edge of sleep, he snaps back, kept awake by worries he can't do anything about.

(Anyone could show up. Anytime.)

(I love thee, Susan, and nothing is going to change that.)Finally, he closes his eyes and forces his mind to clear, to empty. He breathes slowly, and deeply, in ( Read more... )

Cuthbert steps out of the bar and walks toward the lake, one hand rubbing the back of his neck.

He's trying to figure out whether the fact that talking to three teenage girls just gave him such a headache is wrong, or only natural.

( RP meme, stolen from Mir )

Cuthbert's got a lot on his mind. And one thing that was always good for that--both back in Gilead, and during his time in Mejis--was being around horses.

So he's out by one of the paddocks, sitting on the fence with his boots hooked around the bottom rail and feeding apple slices to Kiseki and a gelding he thinks belongs to one of the Pevensies.