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    “Get up.”
    Sprawled on the floor, insensate, Daeron tries to get his bearings. The earth outside the inn is cool, cool against his burning face; red from smacking, from alcohol flush, from the fire within. Slowly, he turns his face so that he can see the feet in front of him. His father’s black boots stare back at him, unimpressed. His father is here.
    “What have you done with Egg?” Maekar asks, bending down so that his knee hovers just before Daeron’s eye. With one firm hand, he yanks Daeron up slightly off the floor by the collar, as if he were only eight and not eighteen, and his body weighs nothing.

    (or his father finds him in an inn, and no brother beside him)

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    “Get dressed quick, we’re going to lose this lot,” he whispers, gesturing his head in what is probably the vague direction of the guards outside.
    “Why?”
    Daeron’s already inspecting things before stuffing things into their packs. He pauses and tilts his head at his brother. “Am I a good knight, Egg?”
    “Not so much.”
    (or what happened when Daeron and Egg sneak off)

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    “I think we should ask Aslan to postpone the coronation. You can’t possibly be seen wearing that.”
    “Do you think?” Caspian asks, sincerely. Peter can only glance at his eyes, wide and warm and worried, for a moment. The crown is harder on the eyes but easier to look at.
    “I’m only pulling your leg,” he says, laughing as a reassurance. “But I will put my foot down when you’re king.”

    (or Peter, watching a new king be crowned in the ruins of his old kingdom)

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    “He’s a sullen boy, though even I can hardly blame him. Try and cheer him some. You can cheer, can’t you? Are you funny, boy?”
    You think of your mothers, giggling with you over street plays, over bedtime stories, over anything and nothing. Can you still be funny without them?
    “Yes, Your Grace,” You reply, remembering how they once addressed you.

    (or, Gaemon is brought into the castle and forges an unlikely friendship with Aegon the Broken)

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    The look on her face, one of devastation and sorrow, is not one he has seen for fifteen years. Susan and Edmund look to her to, Susan walking up to Lucy gently.
    “What is it, Lu?” Peter hears himself ask, voice strangely hoarse.
    “My cordial,” she whispers, dropping down to a crouch, eyes staring at nothing.

    (or when the Pevensie's return to Narnia, it is not just Susan's horn that is missing)

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    Just as he is on his third attempt at the same sentence, there is a gentle knock on the nursery. Though Caspian expects a nursemaid, it is Peter’s golden head that peeks around the door.
    “There you are. Thought you could escape it, did you? Well I’ve found you now. Time for a dressing change,” he says, head bent in the mock serious way he uses with his siblings.

    (Or the healing of wounds, a continuation of the 'in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed' fix-it)

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    “Would you dance with me?” he whispers, extending a scarred hand. They might be the only people that can bear to dance with each other. After a moment of hesitation, she takes it.

    Or the dancing scene in That Which They Defend, from Peter's perspective.

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    Caspian is dead. But here he is, stood in front of Aslan, being offered a chance. A chance and a choice.

    “You have always wanted a glimpse of their world. For five minutes, you may see that world. Or for five minutes you may return to your own.”

    He chooses.

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    After a year spent recovering from a miscarriage, stuck on bed rest, Alysanne returns to court and is struck by what has changed in her absence. These are not the children she left. But most of all, she finds herself wondering, what is wrong with Saera?

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    She imagines a little house by the river here, with a room for her girls and a room of her own. Dreamfyre would sleep under the stars, unbothered by spectators. For a moment, she wants to imagine a world where she can exist alone, with no servants, no family, not even her sweet ladies. With no help, she would learn to cook, clean, and hunt without a thousand tagging along. They would speak only Valyrian, and people in the nearby farms would name her a witch, as they already did. But there would be an affectionate tone to it, and when their children got sick, they would brave her small underworld and beg her for some ointment. If they were kind, she would give them a tonic of coneflower, learned from her maester as a child. If they are thankless, she would crush some lily of the valley berries and let them clutch at their chests in the privacy of their own homes.

    (or Rhaena hurtling her way between one hurt and another and loving all the way)

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    We feel him before we hear him. The human boy wrapping a hand around bark, pleading for help, asking for us.

    (or the trees were watching all along)

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    "But I know him. My uncle is not a bad man, but he is afraid. Since my father died, he has looked to me. And I was there, soothing his burdens, his fears, unbegrudgingly. I know I can do it now, even with Dr Cornelius’ warnings. If we raid the castle, I am afraid of what he will do without the bright light of morning. His fear will let every Telmarine die, so long as the Narnians do not return. I fear what the Narnians would do if they got that chance, too. The Telmarines are my people to protect, though I am only a prince. My uncle is a Telmarine, too. Let me save him.”
    They sit in silence for a moment, as Peter considers everything he has said. When he does speak, his voice is softer than ever.

    (or the wonderful world of an uncle who opened his arms in the darkest moment)

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    in which Louis offers Claudia comfort in her last moments

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