More from the Narnia dark AU of doom

I've had this kicking about on my hard-drive for a while, not sure why I haven't posted them. Two more vignettes in my Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe AU set in Nazi Germany.

PG, 2610 words. References to anti-Semitism; contains naiveté about abhominable organisations.

Part one is here

( I don't think Daddy likes the H.J. Last time he was home on leave his face got all twisted up when he looked at you in your uniforms. )

NAPOMO: Anthem, Leonard Cohen

I really do love Cohen, and this one means an awful lot to me in its depiction of a broken world, but one from which the divine is not absent, indeed is found in the brokenness (and is taking names with regard to oppression and violence). I think Cohen's one of the greatest mystic poets of our century (he's a much better poet than Merton, even if I'm closer to Merton theologically. Although - Every heart, every heart/ To love will come/ But like a refugee strikes me as very like the truth and, incidentally, very close to Julian of Norwich ("Sin is behovely, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well")

( There is a crack, there is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in )