"Huh. Wasn't aware of that," Cuthbert observes, and there's something keen and interested in his glance. "From the sound of it, you'd be right."

His gaze shifts to Susan. "Thee said?" It's gentle, and oh, but she kens why. Susan nods, then gives a helpless shrug. "What dinh meant, aye, as best I could."

She looks at Reepicheep, then, and explains, "King, it means, and leader, and more beside, in the High Speech. Ye'd not have the chance to meet Roland, not now--"

Her tone's as gentle as 'Bert's had been, as she tries to avoid causing them any pain at the loss that's still so recent.

"--he's gone back to the world we came from."