ty ell ory for time.
t hing could be.
quot;I cant see anyt; said Peter after ared ;Can you, Susan?”
quot;No, of course I cant,quot; snapped Susan. quot;Because t anyto see. So sleep, Lucy.”
quot;And I do ; said Lucy in a tremulous voice, quot;t you h me.
Because - because Ill o go .”
quot;Dont talk nonsense, Lucy,quot; said Susan. quot;Of course you cant go off on your o let er. S naughty.”
quot;Ill go go,quot; said Edmund. quot;S before.”
quot;I knoer. quot;And s tainly ill - at t. And s not like does the D.L.F. say?”
quot;O all,quot; ans;If you all go, of course, Ill go y splits up, Ill go s my duty to , if you ask my private opinion, Im a plain d talk, and friendly lions t do us any good, and alks as far as I can see.”
quot;ing o ; said Lucy. quot;e must go no least I must.”
quot;Youve no rigo try to force t of us like t. Its four to one and youre t,quot; said Susan.
quot;O; gro;eve got to go. till ; ended to back Lucy up, but losing s sleep and by doing everything as sulkily as possible.
quot;On t; said Peter, ting o rap and putting on. At any otime o Lucy, er, for c be feeling, and ,
. But tle annoyed he same.
Susan . quot;Supposing I started be; s;I migen to stay of you on or not. I jolly hink I shall.”
quot;Obey ty,quot; said trumpkin, quot;and lets be off. If Im not to be alloo sleep, Id as soon marcand alking.”
And so at last t on t first, biting rying not to say all t of saying to Susan. But s turned and a slo ty yards aions to guide t only invisible to t silent as he grass.
o t of trees - tledrums!quot; t trumpkin. quot;I going to end in a moonlight climb and broken necks.”
For a long along top of to a place rees grehem.
Lucy looked as if soo busy keeping to stop and t trees eep and narroo t. urned and looked at o scramble doer ing, quot;, for goodness sake. Youre rig;and t later, Edmunds voice saying, quot;No, s. there is a way down.”
up h her.
quot;Look!quot; excitement. quot;Look! s t s of us?”
quot;Its ; said Lucy.
quot;I do believe youre rig; said Edmund. quot;I cant t see it before. But where is he?”
quot;it you see him?”
quot;ell, I almost t I did - for a moment. Its suc.”
quot;Get on, King Edmund, get on,quot; came trumpkins voice from beill nearly at top, Peters voice saying, quot;Oh, buck up, Susan.
Give me your down op grousing.”
In a fees t ttom and ter filled their ears.
treading delicately, like a cat, Aslan stepped from stone to stone across tream. In topped, bent doo drink, and as er, urned to face time Edmund sa the Rush.
quot;Peter, Peter,quot; cried Edmund. quot;Did you see?”
quot;I sa; said Peter. quot;But its so tricky in t. On feel ired noher.”
Aslan ation led to t, fartream, t grey grass, tly pacing Beast ahead.
Everyone except Susan and the Dwarf could see him now.
Presently to anoteep pat descended, and tedious zig-zag. Fortunately t above t neither side was in shadow.
Lucy effort ser , ratrying to reac Glasser. tle slope ( se in t) stretco . It one table: iter him.
quot;Lucy,quot; said Susan in a very small voice.
quot;Yes?quot; said Lucy.
quot;I see him now. Im sorry.”
quot;ts all right.”
quot;But Ive been far o go doo t
I just ed to get out of t knoo say to him?”
quot;Per need to say muc; suggested Lucy.
Soon trees and t Mound, Aslans able since their days.
quot;Our side dont keep very good c; muttered trumpkin. quot;e ougo have been challenged before now -”
quot;; said topped and turned and stood facing tic t t as glad as anyone can he Dwarf shrank back.
quot;O; said King Peter, dropping on one knee and raising to ;Im so glad. And Im so sorry. Ive been leading tarted and especially yesterday morning.”
quot;My dear son,quot; said Aslan.
turned and ;ell done,quot; were his words.
ter an a;Susan.quot; Susan made no ans t s;You ened to fears, c; said Aslan. quot;Come, let me breat them. Are you brave again?”
quot;A little, Aslan,quot; said Susan.
quot;And no; said Aslan in a muc a of roar in it, le D believe in lions? Come ; - and t of a roar but almost thing.
quot;rait; gasped trumpkin in t of a voice. to see t disturbed; but it e anotrumpkin, is, instead of bolting, ottered towards Aslan.
Aslan pounced. ten being carried in ts mout . ttle, miserable ball, tled like a tinkers pack and to - the air. he was as safe as if he had been
in bed, t feel so. As y pa oo) on the ground.
quot;Son of Eart; asked Aslan.
quot;Ye - ; panted t yet got its breath back.
quot;No; said Aslan. quot;tting. Look behe dawn beginning.
e ime to lose. You ten into t you here.”
till speeco ask if Aslan ed, turned and jingled ao the dusk.
Lucy noticed t than boys.
tc of siganding close beside Aslan. t was changing.
Lo, Aravir, tar of Narnia, gleamed like a little moon.
Aslan, wed his head, shook his mane, and roared.
t first like an organ beginning on a loe, rose and became louder, and till t. It rose up from t ed across all Narnia. Doared palely in one anot in t River, no its coldest , in every field and ears of rabbits rose from t from under rees stirred. In too ts, staring s. Far aier tain giants peered from teles.
Lucy and Susan sao t every direction across t looked first like a black mist creeping on tormy last, like rees of to be ruso as trees; and o Aslan, o gaze on Aslan, tood still and adored t ing, quot;Aslan, Aslan!quot; in their various husky or creaking or wave-like voices.
t Lucy among trees. One too pretty for a boys, if it looked, so extremely , as Edmund said ;t do anytely anyt; o many names - Bromios, Bassareus, and t of girls edly, someone on a donkey. And everybody , quot;Euan, euan, eu-oi-oi-oi.”
quot;Is it a Romp, Aslan?quot; cried tly it nearly everyone seemed to idea as to may ig, but Lucy never discovered
unlike t t made it more complicated t, began calling out at once, quot;Refress! time for refress,quot; and falling off o it again by t tried to give a display of s ime t only leaves but vines. tree people and circling round t up o pusail ely entangled and somet it ly grapes over and all around.
quot;Refress! Refress,quot; roared the old man.
Everyone began eating, and ed sucigside, but bursting into cool sness o your moute enoug, and rib table-manners at all. One saicky and stained fingers everyill all of a sudden everyone felt at t t tever it , ougo be over, and everyone flopped dourned to Aslan to .
At t moment t rising and Lucy remembered someto Susan, quot;I say, Su, I know whey are.”
quot;ho?”
quot;t you remember Mr tumnus telling us about them long ago?”
quot;Yes, of course. But I say, Lu “
quot;?”
quot;I safe t Aslan.”
quot;I s,quot; said Lucy.