Yes -- the HEY WE HAVE COMMON CONTEXT factor was definitely part of their friendship, and the speed of it. It still makes me happy, though. That the "Oh, you're Narnian!" factor set them both so much more at ease.

And I wish too that we'd been able to play around more with the differences between King Edmund the Just and Edmund the artistic tea-drinking chap. (Defy_ka sometime, perhaps?) Just -- there are so many layers there, of what aspects came out around her and what ones didn't, and that kind of thing is so much fun to play with. In general and with them, both.