spareoom plottings!

[practicality]

...why are you so into the idea that I should be involved in a mugging?

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[just]

Not once, but twice, wasn't it?

[practicality]

Ed!

[just]

And if it happens a third time, perhaps even I can be your knight in shining armour.

[practicality]

What will you help me with, I wonder?

[just]

I could show off my -- frankly rather impressive -- archery skills. They won't stand a chance.

[practicality]

Rather impressive, isn't it? So impressive, in fact, that you'll be able to ruin a favorite skirt of mine.

[just]

Don't be a bully, Su. Would you prefer me to trip over my feet and fall into a rubbish bin?

[practicality]

If it can save my skirt, maybe.

[just]

I did replace it, if you'll remember. With an even nicer skirt. ( Wherein 'nicer' is a very, very relative term. )

[practicality]

It was three sizes bigger.

[just]

I was — planning for potential eventualities.

( A beat. Even he recognizes what an awful answer that was. )

Er, right. Scratch that. Hullo there, you're looking particularly stunning today.

[practicality]

[ THIS FACE ]

[just]

( ....this face? )

[practicality]

'Potential eventualities?'

[just]

( He'd meant weight gain, but. He knows better than to say that. ) Maybe one day you'll be tossed off a cliff — fancy that, I may have proactively saved your life.

[practicality]

...why would someone even try and do that?

[just]

You do want to save Narnia, don't you? Danger is to be expected.

[practicality]

If I'm to save Narnia, Ed, I probably wouldn't be wearing the skirt you got for me, now would I?

[just]

And why not?