Lucy: Can we go out for ice cream? Caspian: Did you ask Edmund? Lucy: Ed said no. Caspian: Then why are you asking me? Lucy: He’s not the boss of you. Caspian: Caspian, internally: It’s a trap it’s a trap it’s a trap it’s a
(He learned viciousness in school hallways and a wintry land. No matter how much you may mend, no matter how just you become, no matter how good—and he did all of these things—you never outrun the knowledge of the shadows, and he uses this to advantage.)