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the return of the lionto keep along the edge of the ge was not so easy as it had looked.before they had gone ny yards they were fronted with young fir woods growing on thevery edge, and after they had tried to gh these, stooping and pushing forabout ten hey realized that, in there, it would take thean hour to do half a le.so they ca bad out again and decided to go round the fir wood. this took thenbsp; ch farther to their right than they wao go, far out of sight of the cliffs and outof sound of the river, till they began to be afraid they had lost it altogether. nobodykhe ti, but it was getting to the hottest part of the day.
when they were able at last to go back to the edge of the ge (nearly ale below the point frowhich they had started) they found the cliffs on their side ofit a good deal lower and re broken. soon they found a way down into the ge andtihe jour the rivers edge. but first they had a rest and a long drink. noone was talking any re about breakfast, or even dinner, with caspian.
they y have been wise to stick to the rush instead of going along thetop. it kept thesure of their dire: and ever sihe fir wood they had all beenafraid of being forced too far out of theiurse and losing theelves in the wood. itwas an old and pathless forest, and yould not keep anything like a straighurse init. patches of hopeless brales, fallen trees, boggy places and dense undergrowth wouldbe always getting in your way. but the ge of the rush was not at all a nice plabsp; for travelliher. i an, it was not a nice place for people in a hurry. for anafternoons rale ending in a piic tea it would have been delightful. it had everything you &a;nbsuld want on an oasion of that sort - ruling waterfalls, silver cascades, deep,aeloured pools, ssy rocks, and deep ss on the banks in which yould sink overyour ankles, every kind of fern, jewel-like dragon flies, sotis a hawkoverhead and once (peter and trukin. both thought) an eagle. but ourse what thechildren and the dwarf wao see as soon as possible was the great river below the andberuna, and the way to aslans how.
as they went on, the rush began to fall re and re steeply. theirjourney beca re and re of a cli and less and less of a walk - in places even adangerous cli over slippery rock with a nasty drop into dark chas, and the riverr angrily at the botto
you y be sure they watched the cliffs on their left eagerly for any signof a break or any place where theuld cli the but those cliffs reined cruel. itwas ddening, because everyone khat if ohey were out of the ge onthat side, they would have only a soth slope and a fairly short walk to caspiansheadquarters.
the boys and the dwarf were now in favour of lighting a fire anokingtheir bear-at. susan didnt want this; she only wanted, as she said, &a;a;a;quot;to get on andfinish it a out of these beastly woods&a;a;a;quot;. lucy was far too tired and serable to haveany opinion about anything. but as there was no dry wood to be had, it ttered verylittle what ahought. the boys began to wonder if raw at was really as nasty asthey had always been told. trukin assured theit was.
ourse, if the children had atteted a journey like this a few days agoin england, they would have been knocked up. i think i have explained before how narniawas altering the even lucy was by now, so to speak, only ohird of alittle girl going to b school for the first ti, and two-thirds of queen lucy of narnia.
&a;a;a;quot;at last!&a;a;a;quot; said susan.
&a;a;a;quot;oh, hurray!&a;a;a;quot; said peter.
the river ge had just de a bend and the whole view spread out behthe theuld see open try stretg before theto the horizon and, betweenit and the the broad silver ribbon of the great river. theuld see the speciallybroad and shallow place which had once been the fords of beruna but was now spanned by along, ny-arched bridge. there was a little town at the far end of it.
&a;a;a;quot;by jove,&a;a;a;quot; said ednd. &a;a;a;quot;we fought the battle of beruna just where thattown is!”
this cheered the boys re than anything. you t help feeling strongerwhen you look at a place where you won a glorious victory not to ntion a kingdohundreds of years ago. peter and ednd were soon so busy talking about the battle that theyfot their sore feet and the heavy drag of their il shirts on their shoulders. thedwarf was ied too.
they were all getting on at a quicker paow. the going beca easier.though there were still sheer cliffs on their left, the ground was being lower ontheir right. soon it wasall, only a valley. there were no re waterfallsand presently they were in fairly thick woods again.
then - all at once - whizz, and a sound rather like the stroke of awoodpecker. the children were still w where (ages ago) they had heard a sound justlike that and why they disliked it so, when trukin shouted, &a;a;a;quot;down, at the sa ntf lucy (who happeo be o hi flat down into the bra. peter,who had been looking up to see if huld spot a squirrel, had seen what it was - along cruel arrow had sunk into a tree trunk just above his head. as he pulled susan down anddropped hielf, another ca rasping over his shoulder and struck the ground at his si&a;a;lt;s&a;a;gt;..&a;a;lt;/s&a;a;gt;de.
&a;a;a;quot;quick! quick! get back! ?9９lib.cra;quot; parukin.
they turned and wriggled along uphill, uhe bra ad clouds ofhorribly buzzing flies. arrows whizzed round the oruck susa with asharp ping and glanced off. they crawled quicker. soured off the then theyran, stooping nearly double. the boys held their swords in their hands for fear theywould trip theup.
it was heart-breaking work - all uphill again, back over the ground theyhad already travelled. when they felt that they realluldnt run any re, even tosave their lives, they all dropped down in the da ss beside a waterfall and behind a bigboulder, panting. they were surprised to see how high they had already got.
they listened ily and heard no sound of pursuit.
&a;a;a;quot;so thats all right,&a;a;a;quot; said trukin, drawing a deep breath. &a;a;a;quot;theyre notsearg the wood. only sentries, i expect. but it ans that miraz has an outpost downthere. bottles and battledores! though, it was a hing.”
&a;a;a;quot;i ought to havehead scked fing us this way at all,&a;a;a;quot; saidpeter.
&a;a;a;quot;orary, your majesty,&a;a;a;quot; said the dwarf. &a;a;a;quot;for ohing it wasntyou, it was your royal brother, king ednd, who first suggested going by glasswater.”
&a;a;a;quot;iafraid the d.l.f.s right,&a;a;a;quot; said ednd, who had quite holyfotten this ever sihings began going wrong.
&a;a;a;quot;and for another,&a;a;a;quot; tirukin, &a;a;a;quot;if wed goneway, wed havewalked straight into that new outpost, st likely; or at least had just the satrouble avoiding it. i think this glasswater route has turned out for the best.”
&a;a;a;quot;a blessing in disguise,&a;a;a;quot; said susan.
&a;a;a;quot;so disguise!&a;a;a;quot; said ednd.
&a;a;a;quot;i suppose well have to ght up the ge again no;quot; said lucy.
&a;a;a;quot;lu, youre a hero,&a;a;a;quot; said peter. &a;a;a;quot;thats theyouve got today tosaying i told you so. lets get on.”
&a;a;a;quot;and as soon as were well up into the forest,&a;a;a;quot; said trukin, &a;a;a;quot;whateveranyone says, igoing to light a fire anok supper. but we st get well away fronbsp; here.”
there is o describe how they toiled back up the ge. it retty hard work, but oddly enough everyo re cheerful. they were getting theirsed wind; and the word supper had had a wonderful effect.
they reached the fir wood which had caused theso ch trouble while itwas still daylight, and bivouacked in a hollow just above it. it was tediousgathering the firewood; but it was grand when the fire blazed up and they began produg the daand sary parcels of bear-at which would have been so very unattractive to anyonewho ?had spent the day indoors. the dwarf had splendid ideas abouokery. eabsp; apple (they still had a few of these) was ed up in bears at - as if it was to beapple duling with at instead of pastry, only ch thicker - and spiked on a sharpstid then roasted. and the juice of the apple worked all through the at, like applesauce with roast pork. bear that has lived tooother anils is not very nibsp; but bear that has had plenty of honey and fruit is excellent, and this turned out to bethat sort of bear. it was a truly glorious al. and, ourse, no washing up - only lying babsp; and watg the ske frotrukins pipe and stretg oired legs andchatting. everyo quite hopeful now about finding king caspian torrow aingmiraz in a few days. it y not have been sensible of theto feel like this, but theydid.
they dropped off to sleep one by one, but all pretty quickly.
lucy woke out of the deepest sleep youigine, with the feeling thatthe voice she liked best in the world had been calling her na. she thought at first itwas her fathers voice, but that did not seequite right. thehought it etersvoice, but that did not seeto fit either. she did not want to get up; not because she wasstill tired - orary she was wonderfully rested and all the aches had gone froherbones - but because she felt so extrely happy and fortable. she was lookingstraight up at the narnian o&a;a;lt;big&a;a;gt;.９９lib?&a;a;lt;/big&a;a;gt;n, which is larger than ours, and at the starry sky, for theplace where they had bivouacked aratively open.
&a;a;a;quot;lucy,&a;a;a;quot; ca the call agaiher her fathers voior peters. shesat up, treling with excitent but not with fear. the on was sht that the wholeforest landscape around her was alst as clear as day, though it looked wilder.behind her was the fir wood; away tht the jagged cliff-tops on the far side ofthe ge; straight ahead, open grass to where a glade of trees began about a bow-shot away.lucy looked very hard at the trees of that glade.
&a;a;a;quot;why, i do believe theyre ving,&a;a;a;quot; she said to herself. &a;a;a;quot;theyre walkingabout.”
she got up, her heart beating wildly, and walked towards the there wascertainly a noise in the glade, a noise such as trees ke in a high wind, though therewas no wind tonight. yet it was ly an ordinary treeher. lucy feltthere was a tune in
it, but shuld not catch the tune any re than she had been able tocatch the words wherees had so nearly talked to her the night before. but there was,at least, a lilt; she felt her ow wanting to dance as she got nearer. and now there wasno doubt that the trees were really ving ving in and out through one another as if ina plicated try dance. (&a;a;a;quot;and i suppose,&a;a;a;quot; thought lucy, &a;a;a;quot;when treesda st be a very, very try dandeed.) she was alst ang thenow.
the first tree she looked at seed at first glao be not a tree at allbut a huge n with a shaggy beard and great bushes of hair. she was nhtened: shehad seen such things before. but when she looked again he was only a tree, though he wasstill ving.
youldnt see whether he had feet or roots, ourse, because whentrees ve they dont walk on the surface of the earth; they wade in it as we do in water.the sa thing happened with every tree she looked at. at one nt they seed to be thefriendly, lovely giant and giantess for which the tree-people put on when so goodgic has called theinto full life:nt they all looked like trees again.but when they looked like trees, it was like strangely hun trees, and when they lookedlike people, it was like strangely branchy and leafy people - and all the ti that queerlilting, rustling, erry noise.
&a;a;a;quot;they are alst awake, not quite,&a;a;a;quot; said lucy. she knew she herself waswide awake, wider than anyone usually is.
she went fearlessly in ang the dang herself as she leaped this wayand that to avoid being run into by these huge partners. but she was only halfied in the she wao get beyond theto sothing else; it was frobeyond thethatthe dear voice had called.
she soon got through the(half w whether she had been using herar to push branches aside, or to take hands in a greatwith big dancers whostooped to reach her) for they were really a ring of trees round a tral open place. shestepped out froang their shifting fusion of lovely lights and shadows.
a circle of grass, soth as a law her eyes, with dark trees dangall round it.
and then - oh joy! for he was there: the huge lion, shining white in theonlight, with his huge black shadow underh hi
but for the vent of his tail he ght have been a stone lion, but luever thought of that. she opped to think whether he was a friendly lion or not.she rushed to hi she felt her heart would burst if she lost a nt. and the thing she knew was that she was kissing hiand putting her ar as far round his neck asshuld and burying her fa the beautiful rich silkiness of his ne.
&a;a;a;quot;aslan, aslan. dear aslan,&a;a;a;quot; sobbed lucy. &a;a;a;quot;at last.”
the great beast rolled over on his side so that lucy fell, half sitting andhalf lyiween his front paws. he bent forward and just touched her h histongue. his warbreath ca all round her. she gazed up into the large wise face.
&a;a;a;quot;wele, child,&a;a;a;quot; he said.
&a;a;a;quot;aslan,&a;a;a;quot; said lucy, &a;a;a;quot;youre bigger.”
&a;a;a;quot;that is because you are older, little one,&a;a;a;quot; answered he.
&a;a;a;quot;not because you are?”
&a;a;a;quot;i anot. but every year you grow, you will findbigger.”
for a ti she was so happy that she did not want to speak. but aslanspoke.
&a;a;a;quot;lucy,&a;a;a;quot; he said, &a;a;a;quot;we st not lie here for long. you have work in hand, andch ti has been lost today.”
&a;a;a;quot;yes, wasnt it a sha?&a;a;a;quot; said lucy. &a;a;a;quot;i saw you all right. they wouldntbelieve .
theyre all so -”
frosowhere deep inside aslans body there ca the fai suggestionof a growl.
&a;a;a;quot;isorry,&a;a;a;quot; said lucy, who uood so of his ods. &a;a;a;quot;i didostart slanging the others. but it wasntfault anyway, was it?”
the lion looked straight into her eyes.
&a;a;a;quot;oh, aslan,&a;a;a;quot; said lucy. &a;a;a;quot;you dont an it was? hould i - uldnthave left the others and e up to you alone, hould i? dont look atlike that .. . oh well, i suppose uld. yes, and it wouldnt have been alone, i know, not if i waswith you. but what would have been the good?”
aslan said nothing.
&a;a;a;quot;you an,&a;a;a;quot; said lucy rather faintly, &a;a;a;quot;that it would have turned out allright - sohow?
but how? please, aslan! ai not to know?”
&a;a;a;quot;to know what would have happened, child?&a;a;a;quot; said aslan. &a;a;a;quot;no. nobody is evertold that.”
&a;a;a;quot;oh dear,&a;a;a;quot; said lucy.
&a;a;a;quot;but anyonefind out what will happen,&a;a;a;quot; said aslan. &a;a;a;quot;if you go back tothe others now, and wake theup; aheyou have seenagain; and that youst all get up at ond follow- what will happen? there is only one way offinding out.”
&a;a;a;quot;do you an that is what you wao do?&a;a;a;quot; gasped lucy.
&a;a;a;quot;yes, little one,&a;a;a;quot; said aslan.
&a;a;a;quot;will the others see you too?&a;a;a;quot; asked lucy.
&a;a;a;quot;certainly not at first,&a;a;a;quot; said aslan. &a;a;a;quot;later on, it depends.”
&a;a;a;quot;but they wont believe !&a;a;a;quot; said lucy.
&a;a;a;quot;it doesnt tter,&a;a;a;quot; said aslan.
&a;a;a;quot;oh dear, oh dear,&a;a;a;quot; said lucy. &a;a;a;quot;and i was so pleased at finding you again.and i thought youd letstay. and i thought youd e r in and frighten all theenees away - like last ti. and now everything is going to be horrid.”
&a;a;a;quot;it is hard for you, little one,&a;a;a;quot; said aslan. &a;a;a;quot;but things never happen thesa way twice.
it has been hard for us all in narnia before now.”
lucy buried her head in his o hide frohis face. but there st havebeen gi his ne. shuld feel lion-strength going into her. quite suddenlyshe sat up.
&a;a;a;quot;isorry, aslan,&a;a;a;quot; she said. &a;a;a;quot;iready now.”
&a;a;a;quot;now you are a lioness,&a;a;a;quot; said aslan. &a;a;a;quot;and now all narnia will be renewed.but e.
we have no ti to lose.”
he got up and walked with stately, noiseless paces back to the belt ofdang trees through which she had just e: and lucy went with hi laying a rathertrelous hand on his he trees parted to let thethrough and for one sedassud their hun for pletely. lucy had a glise of tall and lovely wood-gods andwood-goddesses all bowing to the lio nt they were trees again, butstill bowing, with such graceful sweeps of brand trunk that their bowing was itselfa kind of dance.
&a;a;a;quot;now, child,&a;a;a;quot; said aslan, when they had left the trees behind the &a;a;a;quot;i willwait here. go and wake the others aheto follow. if they will not, then you atleast st followalone.”
it is a terrible thing to have to wake four people, all older than yourselfand all very tired, for the purpose of telling thesothing they probably wont believe andking thedo sothing they certainly wont like. &a;a;a;quot;i stnt think about it, i stjust do it,”
thought lucy.
she went to peter first and shook hi &a;a;a;quot;peter,&a;a;a;quot; she whispered in his ear,&a;a;a;quot;wake up. quick.
aslan is here. he says weve got to follow hiat once.”
&a;a;a;quot;certainly, lu. whatever you like,&a;a;a;quot; said peter uedly. this waseng, but as peter instantly rolled round ao sleep again it wasnt ch use.
theried susan. susan did really wake up, but only to say in her stannoying grown-up voice, &a;a;a;quot;youve been dreang, lucy. go to sleep again.”
she tackled ed. it was very difficult to wake hi but when atlast she had do he was really awake and sat up.
&a;a;a;quot;eh?&a;a;a;quot; he said in a gruy voice. &a;a;a;quot;what are you talking about?”
she said it all ain. this was one of the worst parts of her job, foreach ti she said it, it sounded less ving.
&a;a;a;quot;aslan!&a;a;a;quot; said ednd, juing up. &a;a;a;quot;hurray! where?”
lucy turned back to where shuld see the lion waiting, his patient eyesfixed upon her. &a;a;a;quot;there,&a;a;a;quot; she said, pointing.
&a;a;a;quot;where?&a;a;a;quot; asked ednd again.
&a;a;a;quot;there. there. dont you see? just this side of the trees.”
ednd stared hard for a while &a;a;gt;&a;a;lt;/a&a;a;gt;and then said, &a;a;a;quot;no. theres nothing there.youve got dazzled and ddled with the onlight. one does, you know. i thought i saw sothing for a nt self. its only an optical what-do-you-call-it.”
&a;a;a;quot;isee hiall the ti,&a;a;a;quot; said lucy. &a;a;a;quot;hes looking straight at us.”
&a;a;a;quot;then why t i see hi”
&a;a;a;quot;he said you ghtnt be able to.”
&a;a;a;quot;why?”
&a;a;a;quot;i dont know. thats what he said.”
&a;a;a;quot;oh, bother it all,&a;a;a;quot; said ednd. &a;a;a;quot;i do wish you wouldnt keep on seeingthings. but i suppose well have to wake the others.”
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