Rosenberg-Pevensie Family Suite, Cair Paravel, Saturday afternoon

[willbedone]

It wasn't a year. Not exactly. A year had been a more formal occasion with a party and guests and dressing up and people doing bows and curtseys and Willow worrying about whether, if she had food stuck in her teeth, would anyone let her know or would they be too polite to mention it or, worse, would they think it was some kind of new fashion craze

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[once_a_king]

"Plus with you and Lu and Susan around, she'll never be lacking for non-frilly people to look up to," Peter pointed out. He was fairly certain Susie was going to end up in the dress either way. "The dryads and...well, possibly she shouldn't look up to the dryads."

[willbedone]

Willow held the dress up for Peter to see. "Look at it! There are little pink flowers! I should be appalled but so cute!!"

[once_a_king]

"I rather like the pink flowers," Peter said. Which was not a comment he'd really would have expected to say before Susie. "They can't be that appalling." Could they?

[willbedone]

"Well they're appalling from the standpoint of an entire culture that insists that girls must do everything in pink," Willow said. "Though when I say that I mean the concept of culture and not necessarily Narnia specifically because Narnia is obviously not Earth for many reasons, not the least of which is all the talking animals which has a not insignificant number of color blind members so it's not like they can tell the difference between pink and not-pink to begin with let alone force it on somebody else as a cultural requirement. Which is good because they'd never know if they'd succeeded or not since people could wear lime green and they'd never know. But that doesn't mean Susie should feel like she has no choice in her flower preferences! Or even liking flowers! Am I forcing our daughter to like flowers? Is that going to cause an allergy?"

You would think having the first child would've helped Willow get this sort of thing out of her system by the time Susie came along. You would clearly not have met Willow before.