Prepared to comfort Al, Edmund was instead met with the blast of anger that was so strange to see on Al's face. It wasn't the cold rage of Kala's stare but the heat of righteous fury that blazed in him now, apparent before he even said a word.

Edmund shut the door firmly behind them so that they would not be overheard. "There will be a trial. She's leveled serious accusations against the Lions. Conspiracy to implicate her in past and present rebellions. Threats against her life. This was a warning, she claimed."

He rubbed his forehead with one hand. His head was beginning to throb from the pressures of the day. "There's no justification for what she did out there. I can scarce believe it myself. She wishes to relearn Narnian ways. This - this is not the way."