A great story. Very good.

I loved it! Of course, Lucy is my favorite character (and Ed isn't far behind).

I read this the other day and found it beautiful. Aside from the fact that it's as well-written as your other stories, I love the way you manage to characterize Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund so well with just a few simple words and actions. This is a perfect mixture of the happiness, sadness, nostalgia etc. that I always feel when reading any of the Chronicles, as the characters move between past, present and future. And the last line is just beautiful.

aww! This is soo sweet, because I just love Lucy. I just really liked the whole thing, because I am not surprised that she wouldn't see how everyone is awed by her being so-gold-ish. (And as for Drinian thinking the Golden Age was named after her-why, he's getting to be right smitten!=)
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Just simply beautiful, well written and well thought of. I like the depth to this one. Thank you very much for sharing it.

Know what is neat? I was so dog-tired from the heat and losing sleep these past few days that I went to bed tonight at eight. It seemed so clever at the time, but now I am awake again. Fortunately I remembered "ooh! hey! Louise wrote things I can read!" so this gets to be my bedtime story! And the other will be my incentive to get up tomorrow!

Well. I thought it was neat, anyway.

It's so odd, I was just thinking of Lucy in Coriakin's house this morning. That dark little human side of her happy, radiant self has always touched me, somehow. It would be easy to pass her envy of Susan's bbeauty off as a sort of jealous-female stereotype, but if we know anything of Lucy it's that she isn't the jealous type, really; she is far more credible as you show her to us here, so sweet and self-effacing and yet blushingly insecure in her own particular, vibrant worth. You take all that we are told of her and tie it together, enriching her character that much more, and I adored this.

I loved the opening, Lucy's disbelief that she is like the sun, and Susan's gentle chiding that Lucy mustn't laugh. Lucy's determination to think of something they all four might be, and yet she forgets to include herself-- perfection. It's one of her greatest gifts, to love others so completely that she is truly bewildered when she must be reminded to think of herself!

I love too that Drinian has a "surprising turn for poetry" -- of course he does. Suddenly I adore him. I also adore Edmund here, speaking truths Lucy needs to hear in such a way that she is actually compelled to hear them. I think she needed him pretty badly just then. Idiots though people may be, it is an unfortunate fact that sisters WILL be compared, usually to the detriment of one. Claire and I have tried to compensate, though, by seeing and celebrating in one another those traits we most wish for ourselves and I have always liked to believe that Susan and Lucy did the same, so to see you writing them doing just that gives me so much joy.

Lovely, lovely! A perfect note on which to force myself to bed ;) So glad to have the other to look forward to tomorow!

When I envision Lucy I always see someone who when they where young they where bright, pure and innocent but when they got older say 13 or 14 they started to break out of that image everyone has had of them for years. And because I that I feel that Lucy would have grown out of that jealously that she had for her sister once she was old enough to start finding who she was, but since she went back to England she started to feel those emotions all over again, even if she no longer held them.

Does that make sense?

I really liked this especially what Drinian said about the Golden Age, that was a great comparison in my mind.

Oh, I also sympathize with you as I was up last night doing the exact thing you where. Unfortunately though I was not able to finish the fic I was working on though *sighs* I really need to get back to it before I loss my inspiration.

Man, this was a long review.

that was so sweet. i'm sure that most younger siblings live in their older sibling's shadow, constantly comparing themselves to the other, feeling envious of them. me and my sister are two years apart (i'm older) though people say we look like twins. she hates that, being compared to me. edmund did a wonderful job of cheering lucy up. i liked how the captain said the golden age was only called that because lucy was there. i loved when edmund said, “Well, Lu, when we want to see Aslan, we look at you.” very touching. great job!

I am thoroughly pleased with the last line too. And all of it. I do feel for these two younger siblings, loving their brother and sister both very much, but always feeling that bit of envy. I just love how the story comes back to "Golden" being so because of Lucy. That is a wonderful touch.

Thank you so much for this. Time is so precious with little ones and I feel we were greatly blessed that you decided to give us this.