“It were just a dream,” she argues. “I trust ye, Alain, so aye, if ye’d wish then of course ye may, but it were only a dream. If it’d been aught else ye’d have found it before.”
“I didn’t look for other traps before.” Alain doesn’t let the guilt that spears through him now interfere. They’d all failed her in Mejis, and he’d failed her a second time here by not finding the not-man in the stables before she’d been approached; there won’t be a third. “And I’ve learned a few things since then, of Rhea’s tricks and the Bends both.”
It’d been one of the things he’d sought Vannay for, after they’d returned.
“I still say ye’d have found it.” But Susan holds her hands out to him, and he takes them lightly in his before he looks up at Caspian. “I’ll need to take her deep. Don’t be alarmed.”
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“I didn’t look for other traps before.” Alain doesn’t let the guilt that spears through him now interfere. They’d all failed her in Mejis, and he’d failed her a second time here by not finding the not-man in the stables before she’d been approached; there won’t be a third. “And I’ve learned a few things since then, of Rhea’s tricks and the Bends both.”
It’d been one of the things he’d sought Vannay for, after they’d returned.
“I still say ye’d have found it.” But Susan holds her hands out to him, and he takes them lightly in his before he looks up at Caspian. “I’ll need to take her deep. Don’t be alarmed.”