To the Wild Blue Yonder
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"...and OF COURSE Eustace misses flying, he probably becomes a stunt pilot in his spare time when he's not studying reptiles."
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"...and OF COURSE Eustace misses flying, he probably becomes a stunt pilot in his spare time when he's not studying reptiles."
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"Americans, Eustace Clarence, really?" Alberta wailed. Eustace considered telling her that he would have worked for the Russians had they accepted him, but kept his mouth shut. Years of training with Edmund and Pole had finally made him realize that there were, in fact, times it was better to say nothing.
Mary was furious at his decision to leave reptiles for a time, and he was sorry to lose his mentor's approval, but he stood firm, for all that. Eustace Clarence Scrubb might not have been as magnificent as King Peter, or as noble as King Edmund, or as golden as King Caspian, but he knew how to stand his ground when he believed himself in the right. Pole called it "pig-headedness," but he preferred to think of it as strength of character.
Susan was really quite snarky about it, especially when he refused to engage in any Rat and Crow business while over there. Peter, Lucy, the Professor, and Aunt Polly were all dubious about the motives behind space exploration - the Professor said that he could quite understand the desire, by Jove, but it did seem like meddling with the gods.
Only Edmund and Pole stood by him; Edmund understood the desire to be doing something toward the future, after so long of working in the past, and he, somehow, managed to silence all the others' objections. Eustace never asked how. It was just part of who Edmund was.
Pole, of course, was a brick. She always had been, and always would be. It was as simple as that.
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