Edmund was not a patient boy, but he grew into a patient man, and now he exercises that by calmly waiting for Caspian to lose whatever feeling he has that is making him look away. But that doesn't stop him from continuing the conversation.

"I thought people here only died for a day." That was what the manual said, anyway, the guide that he had found after spending a day in the City, the one that explained matters such as curses. "Although that would raise the question of the need for a graveyard in the first place."