It's so awesome. The cornucopia makes really good food. Bella shares out her candy, which all the creatures find very exotic.
After their picnic, the day is over, and they sleep where they are, and in the morning everyone gets up and travels in a leisurely disorganized company to Cair Paravel, along the riverbank to the sea where the river spills into it, and up into the castle itself, made of alabaster and ivory and hung with peacock feathers and cloth-of-gold. There are four thrones, but Bella and James are ushered to the center pair, where Aslan crowns them King James and Queen Isabella.
King James's crown is a solid golden circlet, peaked at the front but quite high on all sides, decorated with leaves and vines of silver, and Queen Isabella's is like a silver ring of vines tangled together artfully around her head, wrapped in their own golden leaves and flowerbuds. Someone has come up with a few trumpets and these are played to deafening shouts of "Long live King James! Long live Queen Isabella!"
And Aslan says this, when the shouting has quieted enough that anyone could hear him: "Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen. Bear it well, Son and Daughter of Eve!"
And then there is the most tremendous party. There are singing mermaids, there is feasting, there is dancing, there is the honoring of various creatures who have been especially of service - the cornucopia-bearer, Isabella's unicorn, the hound who first caught the scent, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, and a number of others who are remembered and nominated forward for honor by the new King and Queen. The reveling goes on long into the night.
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Date: 2014-06-25 08:52 pm (UTC)After their picnic, the day is over, and they sleep where they are, and in the morning everyone gets up and travels in a leisurely disorganized company to Cair Paravel, along the riverbank to the sea where the river spills into it, and up into the castle itself, made of alabaster and ivory and hung with peacock feathers and cloth-of-gold. There are four thrones, but Bella and James are ushered to the center pair, where Aslan crowns them King James and Queen Isabella.
King James's crown is a solid golden circlet, peaked at the front but quite high on all sides, decorated with leaves and vines of silver, and Queen Isabella's is like a silver ring of vines tangled together artfully around her head, wrapped in their own golden leaves and flowerbuds. Someone has come up with a few trumpets and these are played to deafening shouts of "Long live King James! Long live Queen Isabella!"
And Aslan says this, when the shouting has quieted enough that anyone could hear him: "Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen. Bear it well, Son and Daughter of Eve!"
And then there is the most tremendous party. There are singing mermaids, there is feasting, there is dancing, there is the honoring of various creatures who have been especially of service - the cornucopia-bearer, Isabella's unicorn, the hound who first caught the scent, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, and a number of others who are remembered and nominated forward for honor by the new King and Queen. The reveling goes on long into the night.