Thank you! I have to confess I only re-read the relevant chapter online, because I couldn't find my copy...
"I wonder what his sisters would think if allowed to speak for themselves?" That's a very good question... though I suppose since they live in that same culture, they'd be horrified at the idea too. It's actually somewhat intriguing that Lucy fights, since there don't seem to be any other women in the Narnian army (not humans, at least), and in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, she and Susan are given weapons only for self-defense, not for battle - because, in the words of Father Christmas, "battles are ugly when women fight". Possibly Lewis changed his mind on that? *suppresses plot bunnies attempting to emerge - I already have two unwritten fics eating my head, I don't need more!*
I'm glad you liked how I wrote from one soldier's POV - the Calormenes do get treated as a nameless crowd quite a bit in canon, so it was interesting trying to isolate how one individual might have thought and felt.
" Mercy or not? I can't decide." I'm curious - why can't you decide?
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Date: 2012-10-09 03:04 am (UTC)"I wonder what his sisters would think if allowed to speak for themselves?"
That's a very good question... though I suppose since they live in that same culture, they'd be horrified at the idea too. It's actually somewhat intriguing that Lucy fights, since there don't seem to be any other women in the Narnian army (not humans, at least), and in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, she and Susan are given weapons only for self-defense, not for battle - because, in the words of Father Christmas, "battles are ugly when women fight". Possibly Lewis changed his mind on that? *suppresses plot bunnies attempting to emerge - I already have two unwritten fics eating my head, I don't need more!*
I'm glad you liked how I wrote from one soldier's POV - the Calormenes do get treated as a nameless crowd quite a bit in canon, so it was interesting trying to isolate how one individual might have thought and felt.
" Mercy or not? I can't decide." I'm curious - why can't you decide?