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Narnia drabble: Distraction [Edmund, general]
Title: Distraction
Author: celandineb
Fandom: Narnia
Character: Edmund (implied past Caspian/Edmund)
Rating: general
Summary: Edmund is trying to finish a Latin assignment.
Note: Written for the "hammocks" prompt at edmund_caspian.


With your shield or on it.

First among equals.

Edmund bent over his Latin, trying to ignore the tag-ends of old phrases to concentrate on the actual words before him.

Yet his mind persisted in veering away from what he must do if he wanted to achieve a place at university.

As his fingers moved, directed the pen, formed ink into words, his thoughts were elsewhere. He recalled the stillness of an island night; words whispered from a hammock, nearly lost in the sound of waves; the harsh sunlight of parting.

Caspian.

He blotted the word out, swallowed, and continued.