it's been so long since they've seen anyone from their old life, and longer still since she's seen eustace -- after all, their families aren't particularly close, or at least they weren't fifteen years ago -- that lucy doesn't know what to do, just stand there at the counter with her mouth hanging open, trying to grasp at the threads of who she is, what she is. her professionalism.
"eustace," she says again, a little weakly. "what are you doing here?"
"i come here every day," eustace says. "i go to college here! but you, you -- where have you been? it's been fifteen years! are you all right, are you with peter and susan and edmund, your parents are --"
he stops, rewinds. "have you been in new york this whole time?"
and that makes lucy laugh, because there's nothing that's ever been less true about their lives. well, that and if they make an honest living.
"we're working," she says, careful. "we're a little more...mobile."
"hey!" someone shouts. "get out of the way! some of us want our coffee here!"
lucy moves aside, murmuring a polite apology, and eustace follows her.
"where the hell have you been, your parents have been --"
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it's been so long since they've seen anyone from their old life, and longer still since she's seen eustace -- after all, their families aren't particularly close, or at least they weren't fifteen years ago -- that lucy doesn't know what to do, just stand there at the counter with her mouth hanging open, trying to grasp at the threads of who she is, what she is. her professionalism.
"eustace," she says again, a little weakly. "what are you doing here?"
"i come here every day," eustace says. "i go to college here! but you, you -- where have you been? it's been fifteen years! are you all right, are you with peter and susan and edmund, your parents are --"
he stops, rewinds. "have you been in new york this whole time?"
and that makes lucy laugh, because there's nothing that's ever been less true about their lives. well, that and if they make an honest living.
"we're working," she says, careful. "we're a little more...mobile."
"hey!" someone shouts. "get out of the way! some of us want our coffee here!"
lucy moves aside, murmuring a polite apology, and eustace follows her.
"where the hell have you been, your parents have been --"
"everywhere," lucy says.