Caspian Returns

Sophia's POV

The letter arrived three weeks before he did, which was exactly the right amount of warning — enough time to anticipate the visit without the anticipation becoming its own event, enough time to ensure that the castle was prepared in the specific, personal way rather than the formal, political way, because Caspian's return was not a state visit and I had no intention of treating it as one.

He wrote the way he always wrote: directly, without decoration, with the ...