Edmund raises his hands as if in supplication, to say, just covering my bases. The fact that Caspian is so displeased by the suggestion doesn't escape the Just's attentions, but he sets that fact away for now. He rolls the apple on the counter, thinking. If they cannot find him...

"Perhaps Lucy..." he tilts his head. It's always a last resort, what Edmund is about to suggest, at least in his opinion. "...perhaps she can ask Aslan." The lion always did like the youngest ruler of Narnia best, or at least it seemed that way. Aslan would certainly know, but if it was stupid, if Peter was simply...

There was no 'Peter was simply', except perhaps lost. Peter would not shirk his duties as a king lightly, or as a brother ever, even if it was to be bossy and irritating. "Or is that overreacting?"