"Ettinsmoor? Is that what we're calling it now?" Imira asked.
"Better than 'the northern lands the Ettins inhabit' don't you think?" Peter asked in return.
"I suppose it's catchy," she agreed. "So what do we do now?"
Peter looked around the room...
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Peridan couldn't believe it.
He couldn't believe it as he escorted Susan to her cabin; couldn't believe it as he returned to his, and he still couldn't believe it the following morning as he went to breakfast.
It hadn't been a dream, last night had happened. And no matter what King Edmund was going to say about it today when Susan informed him (for they figured it was better he heard it from her than from the snooping eyes of the crew and members of their party), it had absolutely been worth it.
He had offered to be there with her when the news was broken in, but she had thought it best to deliver them herself.
He hadn't argued.
As he descended from the main deck with his fellow Lords for a friendly game of cards while Susan dealt with her brother over breakfast, he found himself wondering if next time he walked out he'd spot a plank and be forced to walk down it.
Nah, he was probably letting his imagination run wild. Edmund couldn't be upset enough to toss him overboard.
Could he?
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Susan did not know how Edmund would react when she told him Peridan and her were now an item, but she was certain joy wasn't going to be it.
She had debated whether or not she should wait to tell him, but she had waited so long for this to finally happen, she wasn't going to let Edmund be an obstacle to her happiness. Especially after hearing from Peridan how his friendship with Edmund had been the largest deterrent to him admitting he fancied her.
No, if Edmund had a problem then he'd simply have to deal with it because she was not about to pull a Peter and Imira and sneak around. She was too old for that nonsense.
But Susan wasn't stupid, far from it. She knew if she just said it, Edmund might go overboard. No, she'd have to play her cards just right and make him see, one way or another, that this was the best thing that could have ever happened.
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