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[fatespoken]

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TRACKING:
March;
Peter & Amory [ Blue Light ] ✯ this is a song lyric [ in progress ]

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keep it all from sympathy / your day today your dignity

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Amory's reaction doesn't still his fist. His flippant manner earlier had only stirred Caspian to action and his evasive manner now encourages him to give chase. One probably doesn't expect that to be quite literal in any sense but it very well is when his fist cracks against the blond man's jaw. This does stop the youngest of the three, it stops him immediately followed by a step back. What grip he had on Amory is released in a style similar to discarding that which shouldn't be touched in favor of hands falling open to his own sides, while he stares at the doctor who went down in disbelief. What is Caspian X, the King of Narnia, doing? The altercation has caught enough attention to render the Coliseum a little less loud than it was before he came in. Whether the talking and muttering going on from other patrons relates to how they might eject a troublemaker or how they ought to bet on a fight between two seemingly lightweight combatants is unknown to Caspian, but it doesn't matter to him either way.

Note he hasn't forgotten Amory's place in this, he is just remembering himself. Something Peter Pevensie can't do right now. He turns to Amory again.

"I wanted to believe you," he says to the other man, tone losing its sharpness, its edge, "do something if you ever cared at all." The Telmarine points at Amory before sending a glimpse of anger now mixed with hurt and question at Chase for the briefest moment: What else can I do? If it makes Chase feel any better, Caspian shakes his hand out, knuckles sore from impact.

keep it all from sympathy / your day today your dignity

[fatespoken]

It's a graceless fall to the floor, knees collapsing in contact with the ground, palms slapped against soiled carpet as Amory tries to balance himself. How pathetic to be prostrated before the Telmarine, and so it's in a second that he forces his legs beneath him, a jerky shift to a kneel. It's all too much movement for a head that's already swimming, thudding, shattering as though those brights have reversed themselves and now bore into his skull. But despite the haze, Amory knows what, who must have played cushion for that second impact by the sudden collapse and clatter of sound that follows. However, Amory doesn't feel bad for Chase. He doesn't hear the chorus of the jury around him. There's nothing to nothing to feel besides the resounding shudder of a throbbing eye and pounding head, along with the sickness sliding up his chest as he folds his head into his palms. Another pathetic position, Amory realizes, but at this very moment, regardless of the minutes before, he doesn't give a damn.

He knows he deserved it.

He deserved it and more because Amory is not blind to the way he is acting or to the anger belying Caspian's pain. One needs to be perceptive to be able to pull together facets of a character so as to ground a farce in reality, but even fine-tuned perception isn't necessary to sense something shadowing Caspian's rage. An emotion of a softer shade, inlaid in a voice losing its sharper edge. In a man who would raise his fists on behalf of another. On behalf of Peter Pevensie.

Amory's thoughts meet contradiction in silence, contradiction in the hollow of his chest, and the words of the King fall like dead weights.