deepest_magic | the golden age

When the party has died down, Isabella, for one, is well and truly exhausted. She explores the palace until she finds a room with a bed in it, and into this bed she flops, still in her clothes and holding her staff and carrying the cordial in her pocket. She sleeps late, because the party kept her up so late and she hadn't really slept the night before; but around noon, she stirs, and gets up, and goes looking for James and wherever her backpack may have got to. The backpack she finds in the great hall where the principal mass of the party was; some enterprising creature took both bags from the battlefield at Beruna up to the castle for them, and she only wishes she knew who it was. She takes her bag to her room and carries James's with her and continues looking for her friend.

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deepest_magic

"What would've happened if nobody was very excited, or if not everybody agreed that you should send somebody?"

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pythbox

"Well, if nobody was very excited we would've had to pick based on something else," he says. "Maybe somebody who was a good flier and didn't mind going. It's a long flight. I didn't even know how long it was until I flew it. And if not everybody agreed then the people who didn't think we should send somebody and the people who did think we should send somebody would argue, and if there was enough arguing about it and there wasn't anybody who really wanted to go then we probably wouldn't have sent somebody after all."

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deepest_magic

"What would have happened if you had really wanted to go but the others didn't think anybody ought to go?"

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pythbox

"Well, then they would've argued with me about it! But I don't know what they would've said because I don't know why anybody wouldn't want me to go," he says. "It's Narnia. Real proper not-always-winter-anymore Narnia."

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deepest_magic

"Okay," laughs Isabella, writing something down in her notebook. "When the spring came how come we didn't see any winged horses coming to see what was going on?"

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pythbox

"Well, because we weren't sure if there were even any people in Narnia anymore or if the evil winter witch had starved you all to death, and there wasn't anybody who wanted to go find out more than they wanted to stay home and enjoy having seasons," he says. "But then that centaur came by. And I got excited."

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deepest_magic

"Makes sense."

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pythbox

"I thought so!" he agrees. "Wow. Castles are weird. But very pretty. You mentioned food, is there going to be food?"

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deepest_magic

"Lunch will be served in about an hour. I can tell the kitchen what you like best to eat if you'll tell me."

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pythbox

"I don't think I know what I like best to eat!" he says consideringly. "Because I haven't tried all the things to eat that there are! There haven't been seasons for very long. I know I like fruit, though. I like every kind of fruit I've tried."

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deepest_magic

"Well, is there anything you can't eat, like - meat or cheese or something? I can tell them to serve less of those things and more fruit."

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pythbox

"I don't know what cheese is. I do know what meat is! Winged horses don't eat that," he says.

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deepest_magic

"Cheese is milk with some things done to it, different things depending on the cheese."

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pythbox

"Oh. Well, then I have no idea if I can eat cheese or not."

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deepest_magic

"Maybe at some point while you're here you can taste a little and see if it agrees with you." Isabella lifts her scepter to her mouth and says to the cook, "We have an envoy of the winged horses here, and he likes fruit and does not eat meat and is unsure about many other things."

"Yes, your majesty," comes the reply.

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pythbox

"Oh my goodness!" says Flit. "It's another magic thing like the pins! I think I knew that already. But I'm still surprised."

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deepest_magic

Isabella giggles. "It's a little different from the pins, since I can talk to anyone who qualifies as a friend, not just someone who has another object, but yes."

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pythbox

He giggle-whinnies. "That must be nice to have. Narnia's so big, and ground creatures probably can't travel very fast, I can't imagine how you'd talk to your friends otherwise!"

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deepest_magic

"Some ground creatures can be pretty quick, and I have a horse, but yes, it's really useful. The problem with it compared to James's thing is that I have to start the conversation; people can't just talk to my scepter."

From:

pythbox

"Oh, I see. Still. You all have to go around things," he says. "I don't have to go around things unless they're mountains."

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deepest_magic

"We do, yes. It can be inconvenient."

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pythbox

"Well, maybe that's a thing that winged horses can help you with!" he suggests. "We could carry you to places so you didn't have to go around as many things to get there."