And they dance through the night, and Lucy is going to bed when Edmund catches up with her, and with George, and asks - for the sake of your sister, and to unman our sister's dark lover, that George accompany them to Calormen the next day. He presents good arguments - George knows the lay of the land, that he will startle and unsettle those around them.
And Lucy wants to be selfish. She wants to say no, but she doesn't. She says yes, and instead of coming back with her, George goes with Edmund to talk and to plan and to make this official, and she goes back to bed. The next morning she wakes to ostensibly bid her sister farewell, and here in public she can only press a packet into George's hands and whisper for him to be careful, to take care.
And she thinks her heart goes when he is gone.
For weeks, she is not herself. She wanders Cair Paravel, distracted, she goes to dinners and parties and she can't seem to get herself together. She does as she's meant to, and she feels lost.
And even when they return, they are almost to war at once, and she does not get to George until well after all the fighting is over and Aslan has turned the tide, and they have all gone back to Cair Paravel.
He's in the guardhouse, when she finally manages to slip out and see him, when she finally manages to sneak into the bathhouse in there to see him, closing the door behind her. She feels shy and tongue-tied, for some reason. She should not.
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And they dance through the night, and Lucy is going to bed when Edmund catches up with her, and with George, and asks - for the sake of your sister, and to unman our sister's dark lover, that George accompany them to Calormen the next day. He presents good arguments - George knows the lay of the land, that he will startle and unsettle those around them.
And Lucy wants to be selfish. She wants to say no, but she doesn't. She says yes, and instead of coming back with her, George goes with Edmund to talk and to plan and to make this official, and she goes back to bed. The next morning she wakes to ostensibly bid her sister farewell, and here in public she can only press a packet into George's hands and whisper for him to be careful, to take care.
And she thinks her heart goes when he is gone.
For weeks, she is not herself. She wanders Cair Paravel, distracted, she goes to dinners and parties and she can't seem to get herself together. She does as she's meant to, and she feels lost.
And even when they return, they are almost to war at once, and she does not get to George until well after all the fighting is over and Aslan has turned the tide, and they have all gone back to Cair Paravel.
He's in the guardhouse, when she finally manages to slip out and see him, when she finally manages to sneak into the bathhouse in there to see him, closing the door behind her. She feels shy and tongue-tied, for some reason. She should not.
But she does.]
George?