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[giftless]

Edmund didn't like it one bit, but everything was going according to plan.

They'd all gone to their corners as it were, licking their respective wounds after the morning of shock and uncomfortableness. But Edmund wasn't sure how much good it had actually done, as they still hadn't discussed anything by the time dinner was called. A discussion

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[onceaqueen]

"Please tell me you're not going to do this," Susan said to Edmund in particular and to the room in general. "None of this is right or even real." Of all the places for the island to send them, it had to be right here, right now, just before the most pointless mission ever.

[healerofharms]

"None of them know, Susan," Jill said quietly, her hands twisting together. Her face was virtually gray, and the skin under her eyes easily shown how little sleep she'd gotten. She wasn't talking to everyone, not yet.

"I don't think I can do it again," she admitted, seeming particularly small as she leaned against the bookshelves. "I don't think I'm strong enough to do it again, because what if we don't go back until it's done?"

Her chin quivered, but she managed to stop herself from crying - it would hardly help in anything.

[giftless]

"You can." Edmund hadn't meant to comment on that, but the words just slipped out. Just because he was to follow through on a very dangerous and questionable decision didn't mean he had to force everyone else to do so as well. But it was just something he had to say to Jill.

"Aslan never would have asked it of you if you weren't strong enough to manage it in the first place. You can do it again, but that's not my point." He shook his head slightly. "Sorry. We don't really know what's going on here, so every decision is really just a stab in the dark. I just know what I'm going to do. That's all."

[onceaqueen]

Susan's face drew into a deep frown of something like disapproval, though whether that was directed at Edmund or Jill was not clear. "This isn't right," she said. "None of you are the proper ages and I'm not even supposed to be here." If any of them asked how she knew what happened, she could say that the Lucy that was on island years ago told her. Now was not the time for the truth of that. "This is an island trick, not the real Narnia in danger that needs your help. It's madness to risk your lives for it."

Of course, there was a small and cynical part of Susan that thought it madness to risk their lives for the real Narnia, since it hadn't made a whit of difference in Narnia's fate in the end. But it wasn't the time or the place to say it.