"I don't suppose anything else interesting happened – outside of your trip to Narnia – while I've been away with the Professor?"
Lucy paused, looking thoughtful. "Well… nothing exciting, but I have learnt that Edmund can't be trusted to help with the groceries."
"Can't be trusted with groceries? Why ever not Lu?"
Lucy hesitated only a moment before answering. "Well… he was a nuisance every time but the worst was the time right before Narnia. First, he argued with the butcher about who knows what, afterwards he nearly got in a fight with the baker over the size of the loaf, and then he, well… of all the silly things…"
Omission, she decided, was a form of lying, and anyway she rather did want Peter to know what Edmund had done that day, after all, he had a right to know and would probably confront Edmund like she wished she had done..
"…he tried to enlist!"
"Pardon?" Peter blinked at her, clearly thinking he'd misheard.
"He slipped away from me and went down to the recruitment hall and he'd gotten to the front of the line and halfway convinced them he was eighteen!"
Peter frowned. "I see… Lucy, could you fetch Edmund?"
