A/N: Choosing ten random words from a prompt generator and writing.

Knife

The stone knife is an ugly legend in the land of Narnia, but uglier still is the wound in Edmund's heart, sometimes still aching: that he is the knife, the blade that killed the Lion.

Greasy

He never wants to eat bear again, but he can't be sorry to be back here, washing his hands in living rivers, sharpening blades on whetstones, listening for the voices of the trees.

Assist

He must not meet the Lion's eyes, it will hurt, but slowly, he raises his head, and it does hurt, but he is no longer afraid.

Battle

He's glad that she stabs him, in the end; it means he shares something with the one who saved him.

Shake

Peter's hand in his, Peter's trust—Edmund realizes that it is, in fact, all he has ever wanted.

Football

Narnians are rather frighteningly avid for English sports, and Peter may be the more obvious captain, but Edmund knows which centaurs to choose for his team.

Filthy

Good patriots of any world must hate a traitor, and so Edmund spends a good deal of time despising himself in Narnia and in England.

Entreat

They all know that Lucy goes back into the wardrobe, time and again, but what they don't know is that, sometimes, Edmund does too.

Ghost

Even when the shame is gone, she isn't; his dreams are still ice-cold.

Delight

Aslan's country is not a collection of life's best moments—those, it seems, were only the barest hints of what was to come.