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the lion roarswhen the whole party was finally awake lucy had to tell her story for thefourth ti.
the blank silence which followed it was as disg as anythinuldbe.
&a;a;a;quot;i t see anything,&a;a;a;quot; said peter after he had stared his eyes sore. &a;a;a;quot;you, susan?”
&a;a;a;quot;no, ourse i t,&a;a;a;quot; snapped susan. &a;a;a;quot;because there isnt anything tosee. shes been dreang. do lie down and go to sleep, lucy.”
&a;a;a;quot;and i do hope,&a;a;a;quot; said lu a trelous voice, &a;a;a;quot;that you will all ewith .
because - because ill have to go with hiwhether anyone else does ornot.”
&a;a;a;quot;dont talk nonsense, lucy,&a;a;a;quot; said susan. &a;a;a;quot;ourse you t go off onyour own. do her, peter. shes being dht naughty.”
&a;a;a;quot;ill go with her, if she st go,&a;a;a;quot; said ednd. &a;a;a;quot;shes been right before.”
&a;a;a;quot;i know she has,&a;a;a;quot; said peter. &a;a;a;quot;and she y have been right thiswecertainly had no luck going down the ge. still - at this h9９lib?our of the night. andwhy should aslan be invisible to us? he never used to be. its not like hi what does thed.l.f. say?”
&a;a;a;quot;oh, i say nothing at all,&a;a;a;quot; answered the dwarf. &a;a;a;quot;if you all go, ourse,ill go with you; and if your party splits up, ill go with the high king. thatsduty tohiand king caspian. but, if you askprivate opinion, ia plain dwarf who doesntthink theres ch ce of finding a road by night where youldnt find one by day.and i have no use fic lions which are talking lions and dont talk, and friendlylions though they dont do us any good, and whopping big lions though nobodyseethe its all bilge aalks as far as isee.”
&a;a;a;quot;hes beating his paw on the ground for us to hurry,&a;a;a;quot; said lucy. &a;a;a;quot;we stgo now. at least i st.”
&a;a;a;quot;youve nht to try to force the rest of us like that. its four to oneand youre the you,&a;a;a;quot; said susan.
&a;a;a;quot;oh, e on,&a;a;a;quot; growled ednd. &a;a;a;quot;weve got to go. therell be no peace tillwe do.&a;a;a;quot; he fully inteo back lucy up, but he was a losing his nightssleep and was king up for it by doing everything as sulkily as possible.
&a;a;a;quot;on the rch, then,&a;a;a;quot; said peter, wearily fitting his arinto his shield- strap and putting his helt on. at any other ti he would have said sothing o lubsp; who was his favourite sister, for he kched she st be feeling, and he khat,
whatever had happened, it was not her fault. but huldnt help being alittle annoyed with her all the sa.
susan was the worst. &a;a;a;quot;supposing i started behaving like lucy,&a;a;a;quot; she said. &a;a;a;quot;ight threaten to stay here whether the rest of you went on or not. i jolly wellthink i shall.”
&a;a;a;quot;obey the high king, your majesty,&a;a;a;quot; said trukin, &a;a;a;quot;as be off. ifinot to be allowed to sleep, id as soon rch as staalking.”
and so at last they got on the ve. lucy went first, biting her lip andtrying not to say all the things she thought of saying to susan. but she fot thewhen shefixed her eyes on aslaurned and walked at a slow pace about thirty yards ahead ofthe the others had only lucys dires to guide the for aslan was not onlyinvisible to thebut silent as well. his big cat-like paws de no noise on the grass.
he led theto the right of the dang trees - whether they were stilldang nobody knew, for lucy had her eyes on the lion and the rest had their eyes on lubsp; - and he edge of the ge. &a;a;a;quot;cobbles aledru!&a;a;a;quot; thought trukin. &a;a;a;quot;i hopethis dness isnt going to end in a onlight cli and broken necks.”
for a long way asla along the top of the precipices. then they cato a place where so little trees grew right on the edge. he turned and disappearedang the
lucy held her breath, for it looked as if he had plunged over the cliff;but she was too busy keeping hiin sight to stop and think about this. she quied herpad was soon ang the trees herself. looking down, shuld see a steep andnarrow path going slantwise down into the ge between rocks, and aslan desding it. heturned and looked at her with his happy eyes. lucy clapped her hands and began toscrale down after hi frobehind her she heard the voices of the others shouting,&a;a;a;quot;hi! lucy! look out, foodness sake. youre right on the edge of the ge. e back -&a;a;a;quot;and then, a nt later, ednds voice saying, &a;a;a;quot;no, shes right. there is a waydown.”
hal&a;a;lt;rk&a;a;gt;&a;a;lt;/rk&a;a;gt;f-way dowh ednd caught up with her.
&a;a;a;quot;look!&a;a;a;quot; he said i excitent. &a;a;a;quot;look! whats that shadow crawlingdown in front of us?”
&a;a;a;quot;its his shado;quot; said lucy.
&a;a;a;quot;i do believe youre right, lu,&a;a;a;quot; said ednd. &a;a;a;quot;i t think how i didntsee it before. but where is he?”
&a;a;a;quot;with his shadow, ourse. t you see hi”
&a;a;a;quot;well, i alst thought i did - for a nt. its such a rulight.”
&a;a;a;quot;get on, king ednd, get on,&a;a;a;quot; ca trukins voice frobehind and above:and then, farther behind and still nearly at the top, peters voice saying,&a;a;a;quot;oh, buck up, susan.
giveyour hand. why, a babuld get down here. and do stop grousing.”
in a few hey were at the bottoand the r of water filledtheir ears.
treading delicately, like a cat, aslan stepped frostoo stone acrossthe strea in the ddle he stopped, bent down to drink, and as he raised his shaggy head,dripping frothe water, he turo face theagain. this ti ednd saw hi &a;a;a;quot;oh,aslan!&a;a;a;quot; he cried, darting forward. but the lion whisked round and began padding up theslope on the far side of the rush.
&a;a;a;quot;peter, peter,&a;a;a;quot; cried ednd. &a;a;a;quot;did you see?”
&a;a;a;quot;i saw sothing,&a;a;a;quot; said peter. &a;a;a;quot;but its so tricky in this onlight. on wego, though, and three cheers for lucy. i dont feel half so tired now, either.”
aslan without hesitatioheto their left, farther up the ge. thewhole journey was odd and drealike the r strea the wet grey grass, thegliering cliffs which they were approag, and always the glorious, silently pag beastahead.
everyone except susan and the dwaruld see hinow.
presently they ca to aeep path, up the face of the fartherprecipices. these were far higher than the ohey had just desded, and the journey upthewas a long and tedious zig-zag. fortuhe moon shht above the geso that her side was in shadow.
lucy was nearly blowhe tail and hind legs of aslanbbr&a;a;gt;?&a;a;lt;/abbr&a;a;gt; disappeared overthe top: but with one last effort she scraled after hiand ca out, rather shaky- legged and breathless, on the hill they had been trying to reach ever sihey leftglasswater. the lole slope (heather and grass and a few very big rocks that shonewhite in the onlight) stretched up to where it vanished in a glier of trees abouthalf a le away. she k. it was the hill of the stoable:with a jingling of il the others clied up behind her. aslan glided onbefore theand they walked after hi
&a;a;a;quot;lucy,&a;a;a;quot; said susan in a very sll voice.
&a;a;a;quot;yes?&a;a;a;quot; said lucy.
&a;a;a;quot;i see hinow. isorry.”
&a;a;a;quot;thats all right.”
&a;a;a;quot;but ive been far worse than you know. i really believed it was hi- he,i an - yesterday. when he warned us not to go down to the fir wood. and i reallybelieved it
was hitonight, when you woke us up. i an, deep down inside. or uldhave, if id let self. but i just wao get out of the woods and - and - oh, idont know. and what ever ai to say to hi”
&a;a;a;quot;perhaps you woo say ch,&a;a;a;quot; suggested lucy.
soon they reached the trees and through thethe childreuld see thegreat mound, aslans how, which had been raised over the table siheir days.
&a;a;a;quot;our side dont keep very good watch,&a;a;a;quot; ttered trukin. &a;a;a;quot;we ought to havebeen challenged before now -”
&a;a;a;quot;hush!&a;a;a;quot; said the other four, for now aslan had stopped and turned and stoodfag the looking so jestic that they felt as glad as anyonewho feels afraid,and as afraid as anyonewho feels glad. the boys strode forward: lucy de way for thesusan and the dwarf shrank back.
&a;a;a;quot;oh, aslan,&a;a;a;quot; said kier, dropping on one knee and raising the lionsheavy paw to his face, &a;a;a;quot;iso glad. and iso sorry. ive been leading thewrong eversince we started and especially yesterday ”
&a;a;a;quot;my dear son,&a;a;a;quot; said aslan.
theurned and weled ednd. &a;a;a;quot;well done,&a;a;a;quot; were his words.
then, after an awful pause, the deep voice said, &a;a;a;quot;susan.&a;a;a;quot; susan de noanswer but the others thought she was g. &a;a;a;quot;you have listeo fears, child,&a;a;a;quot; saidaslan. &a;a;a;quot;e, letbreathe on you. fet the are you brave again?”
&a;a;a;quot;a little, aslan,&a;a;a;quot; said susan.
&a;a;a;quot;and no;quot; said aslan in a ch louder voice with just a hint of roar init, while his tail lashed his flanks. &a;a;a;quot;and now, where is this little dwarf, this fausswordsn and archer, who doesnt believe in lions? e here, son of earth, e here!&a;a;a;quot;- and the last word was no lohe hint of a roar but alst the real thing.
&a;a;a;quot;wraiths and wreckage!&a;a;a;quot; gasped trukin in the ghost of a voice. thechildren, who knew aslan well enough to see that he liked the dwarf very ch, were notdisturbed; but it was quite ahing for trukin, who had never seen a lionbefore, let alohis lion. he did the only sensible thing huld have dohat is,instead of bolting, he tottered towards aslan.
aslan pounced. have you ever seen a very young kitten being carried in thether cats uth? it was like that. the dwarf, hunched up in a little, serable ball,hung froaslans uth. the lion gave hione shake and all his arur rattled likea tinkers pad then - heypresto - the dwarf flew up in the air. he was as safe asif he had been
ihough he did not feel so. as he ca down the huge velvety pawscaught hias gently as a thers ar a hi(right , too) on the ground.
&a;a;a;quot;son of earth, shall we be friends?&a;a;a;quot; asked aslan.
&a;a;a;quot;ye - he - he - hes,&a;a;a;quot; pahe dwarf, for it had not yet got its breathback.
&a;a;a;quot;no;quot; said aslan. &a;a;a;quot;the moon is setting. look behind you: there is the dawnbeginning.
we have no ti to lose. you three, you sons of adaand son of earth,hasten into the mound and deal with what you will find there.”
the dwarf was still speechless aher of the boys dared to ask ifaslan would follow the all three drew their swords and saluted, then turned and jingled awayinto the dusk.
luoticed that there was no sign of weariness in their faces: both thehigh king and king ednd looked re like n than boys.
the girls watched theout of sight, standing close beside aslan. the lightwas ging.
low down in the east, aravir, the star of narnia, glead like alittle on.
aslan, who seed larger than before, lifted his head, shook his ne, androared.
the sound, deep and throbbing at first like an an beginning on a lownote, rose and beca louder, and then far lain, till the earth and air wereshaking with it. it rose up frothat hill and floated across all narnia. down in mirazs can woke, stared palely in one anothers faces, and grasped their ons. down belowthat in the great river, now at itldest hour, the heads and shoulders of thenyhs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose frothe water. beyond it, inevery field and wood, the alert ears of rabbits rose frotheir holes, the sleepy heads ofbirds ca out frounder wings, owls hooted, vixens barked, hedgehogs gruhe treesstirred. in towns and villages thers pressed babies close to their breasts, staringwith wild eyes, dogs whiered, and n leaped up groping fhts. far away on thenorthern frohe untain giants peered frothe dark gateways of their&a;a;lt;cite&a;a;gt;&a;a;lt;/cite&a;a;gt; castles.
what lud susan saw was a dark sothing ing to thefroalstevery dire across the hills. it looked first like a black st creeping onthe ground, then like the stor waves of a black sea rising higher and higher as it ca on, andthen, at last, like what it was woods on the ve. all the trees of the world appeared tobe rushing towards aslan. but as they drew hey looked less like trees; andwhen the whole crowd, bowing and curtsying and waving thin long ar to aslan, were allaround lucy, she saw that it was a crowd of hun shapes. pale birch-girls were tossingtheir heads, willowwon pushed back their hair frotheir brooding faces to gaze onaslan, the queenly beeches stood still and adored hi shaggy oak-n, lean andlancholy el, shockheaded hollies (dark theelves, but their wives all bright withberries) and gay rowans, all bowed and rose again, shouting, &a;a;a;quot;aslan, aslan!&a;a;a;quot; in theirvarious husky or creaking or wave-like voices.
the crowd and the dance round aslan (for it had bee a dance re)grew so thid rapid that lucy was fused. she never saw where certain otherpeople ca frowho were soon capering about ang the trees. one was a youth, dressedonly in a fawn-sk?in, with vine-leaves wreathed in his curly hair. his face would havebeen alst too pretty for a boys, if it had not looked, so extrely wild. you felt,as ednd said when he saw hia few days later, &a;a;a;quot;theres a chap who ght do anythingabsolutely anything.&a;a;a;quot; he seed to have a great ny nas - broos, bassareus, andthe rawere three of the there were a lot of girls with hi as wild as he.there was even, uedly, soone on a donkey. and everybody was laughing: andeverybody was shouting out, &a;a;a;quot;euan, euan, eu-oi-oi-oi.”
&a;a;a;quot;is it a ro, aslan?&a;a;a;quot; cried the youth. and apparently it was. but nearlyeveryone seed to have a different idea as to what they were playing. it y havebeen tig, but luever dvered who was it. it was rather like blind mans buff, onlyeveryone behaved as if they were blindfolded. it was not unlike hunt the slipper,but the slipper was never found. what de it re plicated was that the n on thedonkey, who was old and enorusly fat, began calling out at once, &a;a;a;quot;refreshnts! tifor refreshnts,&a;a;a;quot; and falling off his donkey and being bundled on to it againby the others, while the donkey was uhe iression that the whole thing was a cirbsp; and tried to give a display of walking on its hind legs. and all the ti there werere and re vine leaves everywhere. and soon not only leaves but vihey werecliing up everything. they were running up the legs of the tree people and cirground their necks. lucy put up her hands to push back her hair and found she ushing back vine brahe donkey was a ss of the his tail letely entangledand sothing dark was noddiween his ears. lucy looked again and saw itwas a bunch of grapes. after that it was stly grapes overhead and underfoot and allaround.
&a;a;a;quot;refreshnts! refreshnts,&a;a;a;quot; roared the old n.
everyone begaing, and whatever hothouses your people y have, youhave asted such grapes. really good grapes, firand tight oside, butbursting intol sweetness when you put theinto your uth, were one of the thingsthe girls had never had quite enough of before. here, there were re than anyonuldpossibly want, and rib table-nners at all. one saw sticky and stained fingerseverywhere, and, though uths were full, the laughter never ceased nor the yodelling criesof euan, euan, eu-oi-oi-oi-oi, till all of a sudden everyo at the sa nt thatthe ga (whatever it was), and the feast, ought to be over, and everyone floppeddowhless on the ground and turheir faces to aslan to hear what he would say.
at that nt the sun was just rising and lucy reered sothing andwhispered to susan,&a;a;a;quot;i say, su, i know who they are.”
&a;a;a;quot;who?”
&a;a;a;quot;the boy with the wild face is bahus and the old one on the donkey issilenus. dont you reer mr tuus telling us about thelong ago?”
&a;a;a;quot;yes, ourse. but i say, lu “
&a;a;a;quot;what?”
&a;a;a;quot;i wouldnt have felt safe with bahus and all his wild girls if wed tthewithout aslan.”
&a;a;a;quot;i should think not,&a;a;a;quot; said lucy.
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