Cricket blinks slowly, because that's a lot of titles to track. Being a Lion must be more complicated than he'd thought. Or maybe just being this particular Lion is complicated. "Aslan?" he repeats, and nods, latching onto the implication that they're friends now. "Yes sir, I'll remember."

"We don't have no kings and queens where I come from," he says. "Well, not in my country. Other countries still have 'em. If I do something wrong you'll tell me, right? 'Cause I wouldn't know. But you seem real kind."