Now, he could manage to lie properly down again. Now, his eyes could briefly drift shut with a comfortable sigh.

"Why are there so many rules for women?"

It was, after all, a less distinct problem in Narnia. Men and women had been working and serving the Kingdom side by side since the Golden Age. Seeing the world beyond the Eastern Sea--such as the land Anne had come from--had been a strange sort of adventure.

But it still sounded familiar. It still sounded like something his mother had spoken once in the haze of his earliest memories.