“I know thee will,” she tells him. Susan reaches up to touch his cheek, then rests her fingers at the hollow of his throat. “I kennit, say true. It’s just all so strange, right now.”

She sounds a little uncertain about that, but shakes her head and continues, “And I’d not - I weren’t trying to hide it from thee, Caspian, or not really. I only - I knew it’d hurt thee to hear it.”