The thing about traveling to Narnia - not once but twice - is that it has given Edmund not only the ability to look back at the world in a certain way, with certain angles, but also the ability to take most experiences in stride. It seems natural, or at least it doesn't seem strange, that he is in this expansive house with beautiful furnishings where his family has clearly made a home - his family and Caspian, of all people - and looking at this bedroom which is so clearly his.
The only part that bothers him is the fact that he doesn't remember any of it: the room is decorated clearly to his taste, the way the furniture is laid out is something particular to the Just, rooms mimicking what he had in Cair Paravel. But some things are strangely and uncomfortably unfamiliar, at the same time that he knows them.
Edmund tries not to worry about it. Instead he looks over at his older brother, who looks at ease in his surroundings and ill at ease about his age - it's not something specific, it's just the way that Peter is, something that Edmund knows but anyone who isn't family wouldn't know how to judge - and raises his eyebrows. "So now what?"
So now what; words that could mean a lot or a little, depending on how Peter reads into them. They could mean so now what do we do, do I sleep and get on with my day tomorrow, or does it mean something more entwined with responsibility. He's never been sent to another world where he hasn't been expected to take responsibility for something - a throne, a war, and he knows that Peter understands that too.
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but maybe I believe in another place // if you go, you won't look back
Date: 2010-07-04 12:07 am (UTC)The only part that bothers him is the fact that he doesn't remember any of it: the room is decorated clearly to his taste, the way the furniture is laid out is something particular to the Just, rooms mimicking what he had in Cair Paravel. But some things are strangely and uncomfortably unfamiliar, at the same time that he knows them.
Edmund tries not to worry about it. Instead he looks over at his older brother, who looks at ease in his surroundings and ill at ease about his age - it's not something specific, it's just the way that Peter is, something that Edmund knows but anyone who isn't family wouldn't know how to judge - and raises his eyebrows. "So now what?"
So now what; words that could mean a lot or a little, depending on how Peter reads into them. They could mean so now what do we do, do I sleep and get on with my day tomorrow, or does it mean something more entwined with responsibility. He's never been sent to another world where he hasn't been expected to take responsibility for something - a throne, a war, and he knows that Peter understands that too.