What the Bards Did Not Know - for Ruan Chun Xian

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Title: What the Bards Did Not Know
Author: starbrowsings
Recipient: Ruan Chun Xian
Rating: PG
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: the entire plot of HHB
Summary: Edmund knows he's found the lost prince. He just needs not to lose him again.
Author's Notes: This beast of a fic was birthed in a night after a very painful delivery in which C.S. Lewis's grasp on Narnian geography and I did battle, and I finally lost. Many thanks to my fairy godmother who taught me the most efficacious handwave technique and was ever so instrumental in the birth of this story, and to my excellent beta who caught all the midnight mistakes. Many additional thanks to the original prompter for giving me such an AMAZING prompt to work with! Hope this satisfies your Edmund craving. Also, there's lots of dialogue from the book, so if you recognize something that wasn't written by me, obviously it belongs to Lewis and Co.

( What the Bards Did Not Know )

Original Prompt that we sent you:

What I want: Awesome!Edmund in the Golden Age, references to The Horse and His Boy (doesn't have to be huge plot points, just mentions).

Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever:
Any or all:
"For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat…"
"When Alexander saw the depth of his empire he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
"What a slut time is. She screws everybody."
"The world is not a wish-granting factory."