Diplomacy is delicate work and not everyone is suited to it. Some were suited for only certain parts of it, and Edmund was certain that was the true reason why Aslan had given Narnia four rulers instead of one.
He was good at riling up their enemy, convincing them to take risks they would never without his goading, manipulating the room to paint the enemy as cowards.
Susan enchanted them, she was an expert in convincing them not to pay attention even as her own focus wavered.
Lucy was the one finding common ground – she was the negotiator, the logical one. When Lucy was done and the contract written up it was handed all the way up to Peter.
Peter knew contracts, and he read them carefully for loopholes and tricks. Thank goodness for that, all the contracts required his signature anyway and if that meant Edmund didn’t need to read a long boring document then that was just fine with him.
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He was good at riling up their enemy, convincing them to take risks they would never without his goading, manipulating the room to paint the enemy as cowards.
Susan enchanted them, she was an expert in convincing them not to pay attention even as her own focus wavered.
Lucy was the one finding common ground – she was the negotiator, the logical one. When Lucy was done and the contract written up it was handed all the way up to Peter.
Peter knew contracts, and he read them carefully for loopholes and tricks. Thank goodness for that, all the contracts required his signature anyway and if that meant Edmund didn’t need to read a long boring document then that was just fine with him.