Above All
Edmund stared at the snow under his shoes.
How do they travel? There ought to be paths or something. The first thing to do when I become king is to build roads. Ought to have brought my coat…
But that would mean wearing a girl's coat and that, Edmund would not do, if he could avoid it. He would be plenty warm when he became prince and Peter had to bow to him.
A nagging thought at the back of his mind suggested that maybe he did not quite deserve to have Peter bow to him, but Edmund ignored it.