"She needn't do it with me, either," Caspian points out. "I said nothing about pretending everything is fine."

Some of this is his own fault, he supposes. Every story he's told them has been one that ended happily, and he'd glossed over the worst parts. Even the rebellion, his uncle, the murder of his parents... he can see how these boys believe he'd have no understanding of what tomorrow means, of what it will bring. "Eddie told me this is something you did with Roland, to help him. I never met the man, but from everything I've heard – "

– and he's heard more than enough to form an opinion, and not a flattering one, at that –

" – Susan isn't much like him."