Eustace never speaks of the visions that circled him within the dark, though Lucy notices how it's a long time before he refers again to his time as a dragon. For days afterward, he eats only vegetables, though he'd abandoned his mostly-vegetarian diet after the undragoning, and avoids looking at the deep-red wine poured into every goblet at dinner.

The closest he comes to admitting anything is a long time later, after the ship has reached the end of the world and the children have fallen back into the little guest room in England: "I'm afraid to look in the mirror," he whispers to Lucy one night, "What if they're no longer my teeth?"