As he meets her fog-gray glance, he remembers it clearly, her soft voice –

(there were a witch, once – who put me under a spell, and made me forget)

His hand tightens on hers in response, but it's far too late for him to protect her from the hurts of long ago, and he nods in recognition. "Alain is a fine man," he tells her, and it sounds like he's trying to say so much more in those few words.

After a long moment, he turns to Reepicheep. "He's a gunslinger of Gilead," he explains. "They're the sort of knights of Susan's world."