Are you sure about that?
The look Edmund sends Harper is positively scandalized, "Of course I do! Lady Safrin would never fail us in such a way." Letting out a humph, the child folds his hands across his chest. "I just meant that I want to be more than just someone who has to be protected. Not a burial... eh...burden.. but an ass...? No not an ass, that's a donkey. What's the word?" The phrase wasn't coming to him at the moment, the words too difficult for his young self.
"But you get what I mean, right? Right now, all I can do is be protected. Maybe small errands. I want to be big enough for more. I'm not asking to be a soldier I mean." Edmund fiddles with his fingers as he thinks about just what being 'helpful' could include. "If I were just a little bigger, I could move on my own. I could carry supplies and messages. And help protect the other kids if anything ever reached us."
"But you get what I mean, right? Right now, all I can do is be protected. Maybe small errands. I want to be big enough for more. I'm not asking to be a soldier I mean." Edmund fiddles with his fingers as he thinks about just what being 'helpful' could include. "If I were just a little bigger, I could move on my own. I could carry supplies and messages. And help protect the other kids if anything ever reached us."
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