As Childermass goes to get the kettle and Pythia starts up a conversation with him, Siobhan lightly nudges Strange's foot. "We need to—"
"Ask him about what happened while we were trapped," he murmurs in return. "Yes, we do need to do that." Because staring off into space, losing track of the conversation to think about something else? That's a very un-Childermass like thing for the man to do...which only makes Strange wonder why it happened in the first place.
But, Childermass asked a question, so he will answer. Strange nods before he continues talking. "That's correct. Norrell and I tried to coax the Raven King back by placing all of English magic in his hands. Though something went wrong with the spell and we placed English magic in the hands of Sir Walter Pole's butler instead." Yeah! That was a thing! A thing that Strange still has no idea why it happened in the first place and is obviously confused about. What about the nameless slave, the king in the north, caused the spell to latch onto Pole's butler, of all people?
"Everything worked out in the end, though. Norrell and I traveled to faerie, I rescued Arabella, and the butler struck back against the fiend that had captured her." Strange's tone of voice implies that he's ending the story there, despite the fact that there's a few questions lingering about that Childermass will undoubtedly want the answer to.
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"Ask him about what happened while we were trapped," he murmurs in return. "Yes, we do need to do that." Because staring off into space, losing track of the conversation to think about something else? That's a very un-Childermass like thing for the man to do...which only makes Strange wonder why it happened in the first place.
But, Childermass asked a question, so he will answer. Strange nods before he continues talking. "That's correct. Norrell and I tried to coax the Raven King back by placing all of English magic in his hands. Though something went wrong with the spell and we placed English magic in the hands of Sir Walter Pole's butler instead." Yeah! That was a thing! A thing that Strange still has no idea why it happened in the first place and is obviously confused about. What about the nameless slave, the king in the north, caused the spell to latch onto Pole's butler, of all people?
"Everything worked out in the end, though. Norrell and I traveled to faerie, I rescued Arabella, and the butler struck back against the fiend that had captured her." Strange's tone of voice implies that he's ending the story there, despite the fact that there's a few questions lingering about that Childermass will undoubtedly want the answer to.