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The Read S04E02 The Lion the W Episode 2 Engsub
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00:34Once, there were four children, whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.
00:41During the war, they were sent away to the house of an old professor who lived in the heart of
00:46the country.
00:47He was a very old man with shaggy white hair, and they liked him almost at once.
00:54Though he was so odd-looking that when they met him, Lucy, who was the youngest,
00:58was a little afraid of him, and Edmund, who was the next youngest,
01:03wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.
01:08But soon they set to exploring the house,
01:12which was the sort of house you never seem to come to the end of,
01:16and this was how the adventures began.
01:20One room they looked into was quite empty, except for one big wardrobe,
01:25the sort that has a looking-glass in the door.
01:29Nothing there, said Peter, the oldest, and they all trooped out again, all except Lucy.
01:35She stayed behind because she thought it would be worthwhile trying the door of the wardrobe,
01:42even though she felt almost sure that it would be locked.
01:45To her surprise, it opened quite easily, and two mothballs dropped out.
01:52Looking inside, she saw several coats hanging up, mostly long fur coats,
01:59and there was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur.
02:05She immediately stepped into the wardrobe and got in among the coats
02:09and rubbed her face against them, leaving the door open, of course,
02:13because she knew that it is very foolish to shut oneself into any wardrobe.
02:19Soon, she went further in and found that there was a second row of coats hanging up behind the first
02:25one.
02:26It was almost quite dark in there, and she kept her arms stretched out in front of her
02:32so as not to bump her face into the back of the wardrobe, but the back never appeared.
02:37At the next moment, she found that what was rubbing against her face and hands was no longer soft fur,
02:45but something hard and rough and even prickly.
02:50Why?
02:51It is just like branches of trees, exclaimed Lucy.
02:55She found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night time,
02:59with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air.
03:05Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well.
03:11I can always get back if anything goes wrong, thought Lucy.
03:17She began to walk forward, crunch, crunch, over the snow and through the wood towards the other light.
03:24In about ten minutes, she reached it and found that it was a lamppost.
03:29As she stood looking at it, wondering why there was a lamppost in the middle of a wood,
03:34a very strange person stepped out from among the trees into the light.
03:39From the waist upwards, he was like a man, but his legs were shaped like a goat's,
03:45and instead of feet, he had goat's hoofs.
03:48He had a strange but pleasant little face with a short pointed beard and curly hair,
03:54and out of the hair, there stuck two horns, one on each side of his forehead.
03:59He was a fawn.
04:01And when he saw Lucy, he gave such a start of surprise that he dropped the brown-papered parcels he
04:07was carrying.
04:08Goodness gracious me, exclaimed the fawn.
04:11Good evening, said Lucy.
04:13Good evening, good evening, said the fawn.
04:16Excuse me, I don't want to be inquisitive, but should I be right in thinking that you are a daughter
04:23of Eve?
04:25My name's Lucy, said she, not quite understanding him.
04:28But you are, forgive me, you are what they call a girl, asked the fawn.
04:35Of course I'm a girl, said Lucy.
04:37To be sure, to be sure, said the fawn.
04:39How stupid of me.
04:41Allow me to introduce myself.
04:43My name is Tumnus, and may I ask, oh Lucy, daughter of Eve, how you have come into Narnia?
04:53Narnia?
04:53What's that?
04:54Said Lucy.
04:55Well, this is the land of Narnia, said the fawn.
04:59Where we are now, all that lies between the lamppost and the great castle of Caer Paravell on the Eastern
05:06Sea.
05:08I got in through the wardrobe in the spare room, said Lucy.
05:14Ah, said Mr. Tumnus, in a rather melancholy voice.
05:19If only I had worked harder at geography when I was a little fawn.
05:24Oh, but they aren't countries at all, said Lucy, almost laughing.
05:28It's only just back there.
05:30At least I...
05:31Oh, I'm not sure.
05:33It is summer there.
05:35Meanwhile, said Mr. Tumnus, it is winter in Narnia, and has been forever so long, and we shall both catch
05:44cold if we stand here talking in the snow.
05:47So, daughter of Eve, from the far land of Spare Oom, where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of
05:55Wardrobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?
06:02And so, Lucy found herself inside the fawn's home, blinking in the light of a wood fire.
06:09Lucy thought she had never been in a nicer place.
06:12It was a little dry, clean cave of reddish stone with a carpet on the floor and two little chairs,
06:19and then they had a wonderful tea.
06:23There was a nice brown egg, lightly boiled, for each of them, and then sardines on toast, and then buttered
06:30toast, and then toast with honey, and then a sugar-topped cake.
06:36And then the fawn played a strange little flute, and the tune he played made Lucy want to cry, and
06:42laugh, and dance, and go to sleep all at the same time.
06:47It must have been hours later when she shook herself and said,
06:51Oh, Mr. Tumnus, I'm so sorry to stop you, and I do love that tune, but really I must go
06:57home.
06:59Oh, it's no good now, you know, said the fawn, laying down his flute and shaking his head at her
07:06very sorrowfully.
07:07No good, said Lucy, jumping up and feeling rather frightened, for the fawn's brown eyes had filled with tears, and
07:15then the tears began trickling down his cheeks.
07:18Mr. Tumnus bawled Lucy in his ear, shaking him.
07:22Do stop! Stop it at once! What on earth are you crying about?
07:25But...
07:26Oh, oh, oh, sobbed Mr. Tumnus, I'm crying because I'm such a bad fawn.
07:34But what have you done? asked Lucy.
07:37Taken service under the white witch.
07:41I'm in the pay of the white witch.
07:44The white witch? Who is she?
07:47Why, it is she that has got old Narnia under her thumb.
07:51It's she that makes it always winter.
07:54how awful said lucy but what does she pay you for that's the worst of it said mr tumnus with
08:02a deep groan i'm a kidnapper for her that's what i am i had orders from the white witch that
08:10if
08:10ever i saw a son of adam or a daughter of eve in the wood i was to catch them
08:16and hand them over
08:17to her and you were the first i ever met and i've pretended to be your friend and asked you
08:24to tea
08:26and all the time i've been meaning to wait till you were asleep and then go and tell her
08:31oh but you won't mr tumnus said lucy you won't will you indeed indeed you really mustn't
08:38and if i don't said he beginning to cry again she's sure to find out and she'll have my tail
08:45cut off
08:46and my horn's sawn off and my beard plucked out and she'll wave a wand over my beautiful cloven
08:52hoofs and turn them into horrid solid hoofs like a wretched horses and if she's especially angry
08:58she'll turn me into stone and i shall be only a statue of a fawn in her horrible house until
09:06the
09:06four thrones at caer paravel are filled and goodness knows when that will happen or whether it will ever
09:12happen at all i'm very sorry mr tumnus said lucy but please let me go home of course i will
09:22said the
09:23fawn of course i've got to i see that now i hadn't known what humans were like before i met
09:29you
09:30but we must be off at once they both got up and left the tea things on the table and
09:37mr tumnus
09:38put up his umbrella and gave lucy his arm and they went out into the snow
09:47lucy shut the wardrobe door tightly behind her and looked around the empty room panting for breath
09:54it was still raining and she could hear the voices of the others in the passage
09:59i'm here she shouted i'm here i've come back i'm all right what on earth are you talking about lucy
10:06asked susan why said lucy in amazement haven't you all been wondering where i was i've been away for
10:12hours and hours the others all stared at one another batty said edmund tapping his head quite batty
10:21no edmund i'm not she said it it's it's a magic wardrobe there's a wood inside it and it's snowing
10:29and there's a fawn and a witch and it's called narnia come and see come lu said peter that's going
10:35a
10:35bit far you've had your joke and you better drop it now lucy grew very red in the face and
10:42tried to
10:42say something though she hardly knew what she was trying to say and burst into tears
10:50a few miserable days passed and then one afternoon they decided to play hide and seek again
10:58susan was it and as soon as the others scattered to hide lucy went to the room where the wardrobe
11:04was
11:05she wanted to have one more look inside it for by this time she was beginning to wonder herself
11:11where the narnia and the fawn had not been a dream as soon as she reached it she heard steps
11:17in the
11:17passage outside and then there was nothing for it but to jump into the wardrobe now the steps she had
11:24heard were those of edmund and he came into the room just in time to see lucy vanishing into the
11:29wardrobe he at once decided to get into it himself not because he thought it a particularly good place
11:36to hide but because he wanted to go on teasing her about her imaginary country he jumped in and shut
11:43the door then he began groping wildly in every direction he even shouted out lucy lou where are you
11:52i know you're here there was no answer and edmund noticed that his own voice had a curious sound
12:00sound not the sound you expect in a cupboard but a kind of open air sound he found himself stepping
12:08out from the shadow of some thick dark fir trees into an open place in the middle of a wood
12:15when he
12:15heard a sound of bells he listened and the sound came nearer and nearer and at last there swept into
12:23sight a sledge drawn by two reindeer on the sledge sat a fat dwarf and behind him on a much
12:31higher seat
12:32in the middle of the sledge sat a very different person a great lady taller than any woman that edmund
12:39had ever seen she was covered in white fur up to her throat and held a long straight golden wand
12:47in her
12:47right hand she was of course the white witch though edmund didn't know that stop said the lady and the
12:58dwarf pulled the ranger up so sharp that they almost sat down and what pray are you said the lady
13:05looking
13:05hard at edmund i'm i'm my name's edmund said edmund rather awkwardly he didn't like the way she looked at
13:17him is that how you address a queen the dwarf asked i beg your pardon your majesty i i didn't
13:25know
13:26said edmund not know the queen of narnia cried she i see you are an idiot whatever else you may
13:34be
13:34answer me once and for all or i shall lose my patience are you human yes your majesty said edmund
13:47my poor child she said in quite a different voice how cold you look come and sit with me here
13:55on the
13:56sledge and i will put my mantle around you and we will talk edmund did not like this arrangement at
14:03all but he dared not disobey he stepped onto the sledge and sat at her feet and she put a
14:09fold of her
14:09fur mantle around him and tucked it well in perhaps something to eat said the queen should you like
14:17that yes please your majesty said edmund who did find himself rather hungry the queen took from
14:25somewhere among her wrappings a very small bottle which looked as if it were made of copper then
14:31holding out her arm she let one drop fall from it onto the snow beside the sledge instantly there
14:39appeared a round box tied with green silk ribbon which when opened turned out to contain several pounds
14:47of the best turkish delight edmund had never tasted anything more delicious while he was eating the
14:56queen got him to tell her that he had one brother and two sisters she seemed especially interested in
15:03the fact that there were four of them and kept on coming back to it at last the turkish delight
15:09was all
15:09finished and edmund was looking very hard at the empty box and wishing that she would ask him whether he
15:16would like some more probably the queen knew quite well what he was thinking for she knew though edmund did
15:23not that this was enchanted turkish delight and that anyone who had once tasted it would want more and more
15:31of it son of adam i should so much like to see your brother and your two sisters if you
15:40did come again
15:41bringing them with you of course i'd be able to give you some more turkish delight said the queen
15:50but i i don't even know the way back to my own country pleaded edmund still looking at the empty
15:56box that's easy answered the queen do you see that lamp she pointed with a wand and edmund turned and
16:04saw
16:04the same lamp post under which lucy had met the fawn straight on beyond that is the way to the
16:09world
16:10of men and now look the other way here she pointed in the opposite direction and tell me if you
16:15can see
16:16two little hills rising above the trees i think i can said edmund well my house is between those two
16:24hills
16:24but remember you must bring the others with you i might have to be very angry with you if you
16:31came
16:32alone i'll do my best said edmund and by the way said the queen you needn't tell them about me
16:42it would be fun to keep it a secret between us two wouldn't it while she spoke she signaled to
16:48the
16:48dwarf to drive on but as the sledge swept away out of sight the queen waved to edmund calling out
16:54next
16:54time next time don't forget come soon
17:09because a game of hide and seek was going on it took edmund and lucy some time to find the
17:15others
17:15but when at last they were all together lucy burst out peter susan it's all true edmund has seen it
17:22too
17:22there is a country you can get to through the wardrobe up to that moment edmund had been feeling
17:29sick and sulky and annoyed with lucy for being right and he decided all at once to do the meanest
17:37and
17:37most spiteful thing he could think of he said oh yes lucy and i had been playing pretending that all
17:44her story about a country in the wardrobe is true just for fun of course there's nothing there really
17:52poor lucy gave edmund one look and rushed out of the room edmund who was becoming a nastier person
17:58every minute thought that he had scored a great success and went on at once to say there she goes
18:04again what's the matter with her that's the worst of young kids they always look here said peter turning
18:10on him savagely shut up you've been perfectly beastly to lou ever since she started this nonsense about the
18:16wardrobe and now you go playing games with her about it and setting her off again i believe
18:21you did it simply out of spite but it's all nonsense said edmund very taken aback of course
18:28it's all nonsense said peter that's just the point lou was perfectly all right when we left home but
18:35since we've been down here she seems to be either going queer in the head or else turning into a
18:40most
18:40frightful liar but whichever it is what good do you think you'll do by jeering and nagging at her one
18:47day and encouraging her the next i i thought i thought said edmund but he couldn't think of anything
18:54to say you didn't think anything at all said peter it's just spite you've always liked being beastly to
19:01anyone smaller than yourself we've seen that at school before now do stop it said susan it won't
19:08make things any better having a row between you two let's go and find lucy it was not surprising
19:14that when they found lucy a good deal later everyone could see that she had been crying
19:21nothing they could say to her made any difference she stuck to her story and said i don't care what
19:27you think and i don't care what you say you can tell the professor or you can write to mother
19:32or you can do anything you like i know i've met a fawn in there and i wish i'd stayed
19:38there and you
19:39were all beasts beasts a few miserable days followed but one morning the two girls rushed to peter and
19:49edmund and said look out here comes the macready and a whole gang with her macready was the housekeeper
19:56and didn't really like children sharp's the word said peter and all four made off through the door
20:03but whether it was that mrs macready was trying to catch them or that some magic in the house had
20:10come
20:10to life they seemed to find themselves being followed everywhere until at last they found
20:15themselves in the wardrobe room and the moment they were inside they saw the handle turning quick said
20:22peter there's nowhere else and flung open the wardrobe all four of them bundled inside and sat
20:30there panting in the dark and of course they soon found themselves blinking in the daylight of a winter
20:38day peter at once apologized to lucy for not believing her and then having each donned a fur coat from
20:47the
20:47wardrobe they decided that they should pay a visit to lucy's friend mr tumness off they set until edmund
20:54said oughtn't we to be bearing a bit more to the left that is if we're aiming for the lamppost
21:02he had forgotten for the moment that he must pretend never to have been in the wood before
21:07the moment the words were out of his mouth he realized that he'd given himself away everyone
21:13stopped everyone stared at him well of all the poisonous little beasts said peter and shrugged
21:21his shoulders and said no more there seemed indeed no more to say and presently the four resumed their
21:27journey but edmund was saying to himself i'll pay you all out for this you pack of stuck-up self
21:34-satisfied prigs
21:37but when they arrived at mr tumness's cave a terrible surprise awaited them the door had been wrenched
21:44off its hinges and broken to bits inside the cave was dark and cold and had the damp feel and
21:52smell
21:52of a place that had not been lived in for several days lucy took susan's hand what's this said peter
22:00stooping down he just noticed a piece of paper which had been nailed through the carpet to the floor
22:07the former occupant of these premises the fawn tumness is under arrest and awaiting his trial on
22:13a charge of high treason against her imperial majesty jardis queen of narnia chatelaine of kair
22:19parabelle empress of the lone islands etc also of comforting her majesty's enemies harboring spies
22:25and fraternizing with humans long live the queen the children stared at each other i i wonder if
22:35there's any point in going on said susan i mean it doesn't seem particularly safe here and it looks
22:40as if it won't be much fun either what about just going home oh but we can't said lucy suddenly
22:47don't
22:47you see it is all on my account that the poor fawn has got into this trouble we simply must
22:53try to
22:54rescue him they were all still wondering what to do next when susan spotted from behind a tree
23:02a whiskered furry face it was a beaver the beaver glanced all around as if it were afraid someone
23:11was watching and made signs to them to join it in the thicker bit of the wood
23:17are you the sons of adam and the daughters of eve it said in a hoarse throaty whisper
23:26yes said peter follow me said the beaver i must bring you where we can have a real talk and
23:34also
23:34dinner no one except edmund felt any difficulty about trusting the beaver and everyone including
23:41edmund was very glad to hear the word dinner they therefore all hurried along behind their new
23:47friend who led them at a surprisingly quick pace and always in the thickest part of the forest for
23:53over an hour everyone was feeling very tired and very hungry when suddenly they were standing on the
24:01edge of a steep narrow valley at the bottom of which was a frozen river just below them a dam
24:08had been
24:08built across this river and on top of the dam a funny little house shaped like a beehive and the
24:15children noticed that the beaver had a sort of modest expression on his face so it was only common
24:21politeness when susan said what a lovely dam and mr beaver said merely a trifle merely a trifle
24:32edmund noticed something else looking up that valley edmund could see two small hills and he thought
24:41about turkish delight and horrible ideas came into his head but he went into the beaver's house with
24:49the others and there mrs beaver made supper with freshly caught fish and potatoes and lots of yellow butter
24:56and when they had finished the fish mrs beaver brought unexpectedly out of the oven a great and
25:02gloriously sticky marmalade roll and now said mr beaver now we can get to business
25:11it's snowing again he added cocking his eye at the window that's all the better because it means if
25:19anyone should have been trying to follow you why he won't find any tracks please said lucy
25:26tell us what's happened to mr tumness ah that's bad said mr beaver shaking his head that's a very
25:36very bad business there's no doubt he was taken off by the police i got that from a bird who
25:44saw it done
25:46but where's he been taken to asked lucy ah i'm afraid it means they were taking him to her house
25:54said mr
25:55beaver but there's not many taken in there that ever comes out again statues all full of statues
26:03they say it is in the courtyards and up the stairs and in the hall people she's turned
26:10he paused and shuddered turned into stone but mr beaver said lucy can't we i mean we must do something
26:22to save him it's too dreadful and it's all on my account it's no good daughter of eve said mr
26:29beaver
26:29no good you're trying of all people but they say that aslan is on the move
26:40and now a very curious thing happened none of the children knew who aslan was any more than you do
26:49but the moment the beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite different like the first signs of
26:57spring like good news had come over them who is aslan asked susan aslan said mr beaver why don't you
27:07know he's the king he's the lord of the whole wood but not often here you understand never in my
27:17time
27:17all my father's time but the word has reached us that he has come back he is in narnia at
27:25this moment
27:26he'll settle the white queen all right it is he not you that will save mr tumness
27:34she won't turn him into stone too said edmund lord love you son of adam what a simple thing to
27:44say
27:44answered mrs beaver with a great laugh you'll understand when you see him but shall we see
27:52him asked susan why daughter of eve said mr beaver that's what i brought you here for i'm to lead
28:01you
28:01where you shall meet him at the stone table is is he a man asked lucy aslan a man said
28:12mr beaver sternly
28:14certainly not i tell you he is the king of the wood and the son of the great emperor beyond
28:20the sea
28:22don't you know who is the king of beasts aslan is a lion the lion the great lion there exists
28:31a prophecy
28:33down at caer paravel that's the castle on the sea where there are four thrones and it's a saying in
28:40narnia that when two sons of adam and two daughters of eve sit in those four thrones then it will
28:47be the
28:48end not only of the white witch's reign but of her life all the children had been attending so hard
28:56to what mr beaver was telling them that they had noticed nothing else for a long time then during the
29:03moment of silence that followed his last remark lucy suddenly said i say where's edmund there was a
29:11dreadful pause and then everyone began asking who saw him last how long has he been missing is he
29:18outside and then all rushed to the door and looked out the snow was falling thickly and steadily the green
29:25ice of the river had vanished under a thick white blanket out they went plunging well over their ankles
29:32into the soft new snow edmund edmund they called till they were hoarse but there was not even an echo
29:39in answer there's no use looking said mr beaver everyone stared in amazement don't you understand
29:48he's gone to her to the white witch he has betrayed us oh surely oh really said susan he can't
29:58have done
29:58that can't he said mr beaver looking very hard at the three children and everything they wanted to
30:07say died on their lips for each felt suddenly quite certain inside that this was exactly what edmund had
30:14done the moment that edmund tells her that we're all here said mrs beaver she'll set out to catch us
30:21this very night and if he's been gone about half an hour she'll be here in about another 20 minutes
30:28you're right mrs beaver said her husband we must all get away from here there's not a moment to lose
30:56the white witch
30:56edmund had indeed gone to find the white witch he was wet and cold and bruised all over but he
31:04had
31:04arrived at the witch's house which was really a small castle he crept up to the entrance and looked
31:11inside into the courtyard and there he saw a sight that nearly made his heart stop beating
31:19there were dozens of statues all about standing here and there rather as the pieces stand on a
31:26chess board when it is halfway through a game it was eerie work crossing the courtyard but finally
31:33he found himself in a long gloomy hall with many pillars as full as the courtyard had been of statues
31:41the one nearest the door was a little fawn with a very sad expression on its face and edmund couldn't
31:50help
31:50wondering if this might be lucy's friend
31:56i have come your majesty said edmund rushing eagerly forward how dare you come alone said the witch from her
32:05throne in a terrible voice did i not tell you to bring the others with you please your majesty said
32:12edmund i i've done the best i can they're in the little house on top of the dam just up
32:17the river with
32:18mr and mrs beaver a slow cruel smile came over the witch's face is this all your news she asked
32:30no your majesty said edmund and proceeded to tell her all he had heard before leaving the beaver's house
32:38what aslan cried the queen aslan is this true if i find you have lied to me please i'm only
32:48repeating
32:49what they said stammered edmund and do you think i could have some turkish delight but the queen
32:58who was no longer attending to him clapped her hands instantly the same dwarf whom edmund had seen
33:05with her before appeared make ready our sledge ordered the witch and use the harness without bells
33:14the journey on the witch's sleigh was a terrible ordeal for edmund he had no coat and before they had
33:21been going a quarter of an hour all the front of him was covered with snow the witch paid him
33:28no
33:28heed and certainly there was no mention of turkish delight now oh how miserable he was the only way
33:37to comfort himself now was to try to believe that the whole thing was a dream and that he might
33:43wake
33:43up at any moment and as they went on hour after hour it did come to seem like a dream
33:51and then at last the
33:53witch said what have we here stop and they did this is no thaw said the dwarf suddenly stopping this
34:05is spring
34:07this is aslan's doing in a few minutes edmund found himself being forced to walk as fast as he could
34:15with his hands tied behind him every moment the patches of green grew bigger and the patches of snow grew
34:24smaller
34:27miles away the beavers and the three children were walking on hour after hour
34:33into what seemed a delicious dream long ago they had left the coats behind them and by now they had
34:43even stopped saying to one another look there's a kingfisher or what was that lovely smell or just
34:50listen to that thrush then they were climbing and soon they were on a green open space from which you
34:58could look down on the forest spreading as far as one could see in every direction
35:05in the very middle of this open hilltop was the stone table it was a great grim slab of gray
35:14stone
35:15supported on four upright stones the next thing they saw was a pavilion with sides of
35:24what looked like yellow silk and cords of crimson and tent pegs of ivory and there in front
35:34was aslan stood in the center of a crowd of creatures who had grouped themselves around him in
35:41the shape of a half moon as for aslan himself the beavers and the children didn't know what to do
35:48or
35:48say when they saw him we have come aslan said peter welcome peter son of adam said aslan welcome susan
36:01and lucy daughters of eve welcome he beaver and she beaver his voice was deep and rich
36:11and somehow took the fidgets out of them they now felt glad and quiet and it didn't seem awkward to
36:22them to stand and say nothing but where is the fourth asked aslan please said lucy can anything be done
36:33to
36:34save edmund all shall be done said aslan but it may be harder than you think
36:45when the witch at last halted in a dark valley edmund simply sank down and lay on his face doing
36:54nothing
36:54at all and not even caring what was going to happen next provided they would let him lie still
37:02the witch and the dwarf were talking close behind him in low tones no said the dwarf it is no
37:10use now
37:11o queen they must have reached the stone table by now four thrones in kair paravel said the witch
37:22how if only three were filled that would not fulfill the prophecy
37:31then said the dwarf we had better do what we have to do at once edmund found himself being roughly
37:41forced to his feet then the dwarf set him with his back against the tree and bound him fast after
37:48that
37:48edmund heard a strange noise
37:53for a moment he couldn't think what it was then he realized it was the sound of a knife being
37:59sharpened
38:00at that very moment he heard loud shouts from every direction a drumming of hoofs
38:06and a beating of wings a scream from the witch confusion all around him and then
38:13he found he found he was being untied strong arms were around him and he heard big kind voices saying
38:21things like let him lie down give him some wine drink this steady now you'll be all right in a
38:28minute
38:28and then at this point edmund went off in a dead faint
38:36when the other children woke up next morning the first thing they heard was that their brother had
38:42been rescued and brought into camp late last night and was at that moment with aslan as soon as they
38:49had breakfasted they all went out and there they saw aslan and edmund walking together in the dewy grass
38:56aslan apart from the rest of the court there is no need to tell you and no one ever heard
39:04what aslan was saying
39:06but it was a conversation which edmund never forgot
39:12here is your brother said aslan and there is no need to talk to him about what is past
39:21edmund shook hands with each of the others and said to each of them in turn
39:25i'm sorry and everyone said that's all right and then everyone wanted very hard to say something
39:32which would make it quite clear that they were all friends with him again
39:36and of course no one could think of anything in the world to say
39:41but before they had time to feel really awkward a leopard announced that aslan had a visitor requesting
39:48an audience and a few minutes later the white witch herself walked out onto the top of the hill
39:55and stood before aslan there were low growls among all the animals present
40:02you have a traitor there aslan said the witch of course everyone present knew that she meant edmund but
40:12edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that
40:19morning he just went on looking at aslan
40:23well said aslan his offense was not against you
40:30have you forgotten the deep magic asked the witch
40:34let us say i have forgotten it answered aslan gravely tell us of this deep magic
40:43tell you said the witch her voice growing suddenly shriller tell you what is written on that very table
40:51of stone which stands beside us you know that every traitor belongs to me as my lawful prey and that
41:01for
41:01every treachery i have a right to a kill fall back all of you said aslan and i will talk
41:11to the witch alone
41:15they all obeyed it was a terrible time this waiting and wondering while the lion and the witch talked earnestly
41:23together in low voices at last they heard aslan's voice
41:30you can all come back he said she has renounced the claim on your brother's blood
41:38and all over the hill there was a noise as if everyone had been holding his breath and had now
41:44begun breathing again and then a murmur of talk the witch was just turning away with a look of fierce
41:53joy on
41:54her face when she stopped and said but how do i know this promise will be kept
42:03roared aslan half rising from his throne and his great mouth opened wider and wider and the roar grew
42:13louder and louder and the witch
42:16after staring for a moment with her lips wide apart picked up her skirts and fairly ran for her life
42:39that night aslan and his party camped by the fords of beruna neither susan or lucy could sleep
42:48and both had a horrible feeling as if something dreadful were hanging over them
42:54very quietly the two girls crept out of the tent the moonlight was bright and everything was quite
43:02still then susan suddenly caught lucy's arm and said look on the far side of the camping ground they
43:11saw aslan slowly walking away from them into the wood without a word they both followed him up the
43:18steep slope out of the river valley he looked somehow different from the aslan they knew his tail and his
43:26head
43:27hung low and he walked slowly as if he were very very tired when they were closer he turned hearing
43:36them and said oh children children why are you following me we couldn't sleep said lucy
43:47please may we come with you wherever you're going said susan well said aslan who seemed to be thinking
43:56i should be glad of company tonight yes you may come if you will promise to stop when i tell
44:02you
44:04they walked together up the slope of the hill on which the stone table stood and when they got to
44:09the last tree aslan stopped and said oh children children here you must stop and whatever happens
44:19do not let yourselves be seen farewell and both the girls cried bitterly though they hardly knew why
44:28and clung to the lion and kissed his mane and his nose and his paws and his great sad eyes
44:36then he turned from them and walked out onto the top of the hill and lucy and susan crouching in
44:43the bushes looked after him and this is what they saw a great crowd of people were standing
44:49all around the stone table and though the moon was shining many of them carried torches which
44:56burned with evil looking red flames and black smoke but such people ogres with monstrous teeth and wolves
45:04and bull-headed men spirits of evil trees and poisonous plants and right in the middle standing by
45:11the table was the witch herself the fool cried the witch the fool has come bind him
45:19fast lucy and susan held their breaths waiting for aslan to roar and spring upon his enemies
45:26but it never came four hags grinning and leering and half afraid of what they had to do rolled the
45:34huge lion round on his back and tied all his four paws together shouting and cheering as if they had
45:40done
45:40something brave then they began to drag him towards the stone table stop said the witch let him first be
45:49shaved
45:52another roar of mean laughter went up from her followers as an ogre with a pair of shears came
45:58forward and squatted down by aslan's head then the ogre stood back and the children watching from their hiding
46:06place could see the face of aslan looking all small and different without its mane at last the rabble
46:14dragged the bound and muzzled lion to the stone table then a hush fell on the crowd the witch wet
46:23her knife
46:24it gleamed in the torchlight and was of a strange and evil shape just before she gave the blow
46:32the witch stooped down and said in a quivering voice fool did you think that by all this you would
46:40save the
46:40human traitor now i will kill you instead of him and so the deep magic will be appeased but when
46:50you are
46:50dead what will prevent me from killing him as well understand that you have given me narnia forever you have
46:59lost your own life and you have not saved his in that knowledge despair and die the children
47:09did not see the actual moment of the killing they couldn't bear to look and had covered their eyes
47:18then they heard the voice of the witch calling out now follow me all and we will set about what
47:25remains of this war with wild cries the whole of that vile rabble came sweeping off the hilltop and
47:33down the slope right past lucy and susan's hiding place as soon as the wood was silent again susan and
47:42lucy crept out into the open hilltop and saw the shape of the great lion lying dead in his bonds
47:50and down they both knelt in the wet grass and kissed his cold face and cried till they could cry
48:00no more
48:01they stood for a moment looking out towards the sea and kair paravel which they could now just make out
48:08the red turning to gold along the line where the sea and the sky met
48:14and very slowly up came the edge of the sun at that moment they heard from behind them a loud
48:25noise a
48:26great cracking deafening noise what's that said lucy clutching susan's arm i i feel afraid to turn
48:34round said susan something awful is happening the rising of the sun had made everything look so different
48:43that for a moment they didn't see the important thing then they did oh oh oh cried the two girls
48:52rushing back to the table the stone table had broken into two pieces by a great crack that ran down
49:00it
49:00from end to end and there was no aslan who's done it cried susan what does it mean is it
49:09more magic
49:10magic yes said a great voice behind their backs it is more magic they looked round there shining in the
49:25sunrise shaking his mane stood aslan himself oh aslan cried both the children staring up at him almost as
49:34much frightened as much frightened as they were glad and both girls flung themselves upon him and covered
49:39him with kisses but what does it all mean asked susan when they were somewhat calmer it means said aslan
49:49that though the witch knew the deep magic there is a magic deeper still which she did not know
50:00her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time but if she could have looked a little further back
50:07into the stillness and the darkness before time dawned she would have read there a different incantation
50:19she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's
50:27dead the table would crack and death itself would start working backwards and now oh yes now said lucy
50:38jumping up and clapping her hands and now said aslan to business we have a long journey to go
50:49by midday they found themselves in the courtyard of the witch's castle
50:52and aslan bounded up to a stone lion and breathed on him then without waiting a moment he whisked round
51:00and breathed also onto a stone dwarf everywhere the statues were coming to life and instead of the
51:06deadly silence the whole place rang with the sound of happy roarings prayings barkings squealings
51:12cooings neighing stamping shouts hurrahs songs and laughter the best of all was when lucy came rushing
51:20from upstairs shouting out aslan aslan i found mr tumness oh do come quick a moment later lucy and
51:29the little fawn were holding one another by both hands and dancing round and round for joy but at last
51:36the ransacking of the witch's fortress was ended aslan clapped his paws together and called for silence
51:43our day's work is not yet over he said and if the witch is to be finally defeated we must
51:52find the battle
51:53at once those who can't keep up that is children dwarfs and small animals must ride on the backs of
51:59those who can that is lions centaurs unicorns horses giants and eagles those who are good with their noses
52:06must come in front with us lions to smell out where the battle is so they traveled once more faster
52:15and faster they went as the scent became easier and easier to follow and then just as they came to
52:21the
52:21curve in a narrow winding valley lucy heard the noise of shouts and shrieks and of the clashing of
52:28metal against metal there stood peter and edmund and all the rest of aslan's army fighting desperately
52:36against a crowd of horrible creatures whom she had seen last night aslan's army which had their backs
52:43to her looked terribly few peter was fighting the witch both of them going at it so hard that lucy
52:52could hardly make out what was happening she only saw the stone knife and peter's sword flashing so
52:58quickly that they looked like three knives and three swords horrible things were happening wherever she
53:04looked off my back children shouted aslan and they both tumbled off then with a roar that shook all
53:13narnia the great beast flung himself upon the white witch lucy saw her face lifted towards him for one
53:21second with an expression of terror and amazement at the same moment the creatures whom aslan had led from
53:29the witch's house rushed madly on the enemy's line and peter's tired army cheered and the enemy squealed and
53:37gibbered till the wood echoed with the din of that onset the battle was all over a few minutes after
53:46their
53:47arrival the next day they began marching eastward and reached the castle of kair parabell on its little hill
53:56before them were long miles of bluish green waves breaking forever and ever on the beach
54:05in the great hall aslan solemnly crowned them and led them onto the four thrones amid deafening
54:12shouts of long live king peter long live queen susan long live king edmund long live queen lucy
54:20once a king or queen in narnia always a king or queen bear it well sons of adam bear it
54:30well daughters
54:31of eve said aslan these two kings and two queens governed narnia well and long and happy was their reign
54:43king peter became a tall and deep-chested man and a great warrior and he was called king peter
54:50the magnificent and susan grew into a tall and gracious woman with black hair that fell almost to
54:57her feet and the kings of the countries beyond the sea began to send ambassadors asking for her hand in
55:04marriage and she was called queen susan the gentle edmund was a graver and quieter man than peter
55:13and great in counsel and judgment he was called king edmund the just but as for lucy she was always
55:22gay and golden-haired and all princes in those parts desired her to be their queen and her own people
55:29called her queen lucy the valiant so they lived in great joy and if ever they remembered their life
55:37in this world it was only as one remembers a dream and one year tumness who was a middle-aged
55:45fawn by now
55:46came down river and brought them news that the white stag had appeared who would give you wishes if you
55:52caught him so they rode a hunting to follow the white stag he led them a great pace over rough
55:59and smooth
56:00till they saw the stag enter into a thicket where their horses could not follow so they went into the
56:06thick wood on foot and as soon as they had entered it queen susan said fair friends here is a
56:14great marvel
56:15for i seem to see a tree of iron then said king edmund i know not how it is but
56:23this lamp on the post
56:24worketh upon me strangely it runs in my mind that i have seen the light before as it were in
56:31a dream
56:31or in the dream of a dream and more said queen lucy for it will not go out of my
56:38mind that if we pass
56:39this post and lantern we shall find strange adventures so these kings and queens entered the thicket
56:48and before they had gone a score of paces they all remembered that the thing they had seen was called
56:53a lamp post and before they had gone 20 more they noticed that they were making their way not through
57:01branches but through coats and the next moment they all came tumbling out of a wardrobe door into the
57:12empty room and they were no longer kings and queens but just peter susan edmund and lucy in their old
57:22clothes it was the same day and the same hour of the day on which they had all gone into
57:28the wardrobe to
57:31hide and that would have been the very end of the story if it hadn't been that they felt they
57:39really
57:39must explain what happened to the professor and the professor who was a very remarkable man
57:50didn't tell them not to be silly or not to tell lies
57:56but believed the whole story no he said i don't think it will be any good trying to go back
58:03through
58:03the wardrobe you won't get into narnia again by that route it'll happen when you're not looking for it
58:15and that is the very end of the adventures of the wardrobe but only the beginning of the adventures of
58:26narnia
58:29so
58:36so
58:38so
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