Easy for Lucy to say when it wasn’t her heartache.
Al didn’t share her optimism. He was highly skeptical of Kala, but hadn’t he been one of the first to push Edmund toward other panthers? The animals of Narnia wanted their kings and queens to be pure. Respectable. No panthers were ever going to follow a panther king who took a lion to mate. And no lion pride was going to welcome a panther omega, or any cubs he whelped.
Al loved Edmund. His heart was bonded to Edmund’s spirit, and Al knew his chances of mating and bonding with anyone else were slim. And maybe, in his secret, wildest hopes, he’d wondered if Edmund could feel the same. (He knew the truth. Edmund had told Al himself that he liked his life. He liked the thrill and chase of new love. He didn’t want to settle and mate.)
But even then, Al wanted more for him than mating to one of Cair Paravel’d cursed lions. He wanted Ed to be happy when he finally did settle down. He wanted him to have heiress and all the things he could never have with Al.
But he kept all of that private. No sense in burdening anyone else with it. “Okay. I’ll wait to hear from you,” was all he said to lucy.
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Date: 2018-07-21 07:44 pm (UTC)Al didn’t share her optimism. He was highly skeptical of Kala, but hadn’t he been one of the first to push Edmund toward other panthers? The animals of Narnia wanted their kings and queens to be pure. Respectable. No panthers were ever going to follow a panther king who took a lion to mate. And no lion pride was going to welcome a panther omega, or any cubs he whelped.
Al loved Edmund. His heart was bonded to Edmund’s spirit, and Al knew his chances of mating and bonding with anyone else were slim. And maybe, in his secret, wildest hopes, he’d wondered if Edmund could feel the same. (He knew the truth. Edmund had told Al himself that he liked his life. He liked the thrill and chase of new love. He didn’t want to settle and mate.)
But even then, Al wanted more for him than mating to one of Cair Paravel’d cursed lions. He wanted Ed to be happy when he finally did settle down. He wanted him to have heiress and all the things he could never have with Al.
But he kept all of that private. No sense in burdening anyone else with it. “Okay. I’ll wait to hear from you,” was all he said to lucy.