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Narnia drabble: Heavy Is the Head [Frank, general]
Title: Heavy Is the Head
Author: celandineb
Fandom: Narnia
Characters: Frank the first king
Rating: general
Summary: Being a king isn't all perquisites.
Note: Inspired by the "crown" prompt at 100foraslan, but not posted there (since I don't like contests).


Driving a cab in London – even having grown up in the countryside – was not, perhaps, the best of preparations for becoming a king, Frank thought more than once as the years went by.

He did his best, of course. He and Helen divided their time between tilling the soil (with the help of the Moles and others), building a dwelling where they could live and also carry out the business of monarchy, and raising the family that came along. Nevertheless it often happened that he pondered the truth of the old saying: Heavy is the head that wears the crown.