tO Eartered, but instead of advancing into tely by t person le, tood dead still in took in tuation - trangers, troyed, and th his sword in his hand.
Surned very Jill t it of comes over some peoples faces not co change her mind.
quot;Leave us,quot; so t;And let none disturb us till I call, on pain of deat; tly, and tc and locked the door.
quot;; s;ly fit not yet come upon you, or is it over so soon? and you troyed ty?”
Prince Rilian so is not easy to tment effort, ;Madam, t cold me a imes ied me for tless t seems, some small error in your Ladysreating true friends, mind, and to you. First - as for your Ladysting me at t I may break out into tion t never did me ural lords and yrant - no I knoterly ab as plain villainy. And second: I am tent name, is also my duty, to depart suddenly from your into my ory. Please it you to grant me and my friends safe conduct and a guide through your dark realm.”
Noc all, but moved gently across teadily too a little ark set in t far from t, and took out first a did not blaze muc a very s and dro. And all tion ronger, and filled t o took out a musical instrument rato play it eady, monotonous t you didnt notice after a fees. But ticed it, t got into your brain and your blood. t o ter sime (and t smell rong) s, quiet voice.
quot;Narnia?quot; s;Narnia? I en ter t name in your ravings. Dear Prince, you are very sick. there is no land called Narnia.”
quot;Yes t; said Puddleglum. quot;You see, I o here all my life.”
quot;Indeed,quot; said tc;tell me, I pray you, ry is?”
quot;Up t; said Puddleglum, stoutly, pointing over;I - I dont knoly where.”
quot;; said t, musical laug;Is try up among tones and mortar of the roof?”
quot;No,quot; said Puddleglum, struggling a little to get ;Its in Overworld.”
quot;And w, or w. . . Overworld?”
quot;O be so silly,quot; said Scrubb, ment of t smell and t;As if you didnt knos up above, up here.”
quot;I cry you mercy, little brot; laugc ;I meeting. But en meet our friends in strange places ask to remember it.”
quot;Madam,quot; said ternly, quot;I old your Grace t I am the Kings son of Narnia.”
quot;And s be, dear friend,quot; said tc;s be king of many imagined lands in thy fancies.”
quot;eve been too,quot; snapped Jill. Sment getting . But of course t t sill feel it, s it yet fully worked.
quot;And t Queen of Narnia too, I doubt not, pretty one,quot; said tcone.
quot;Im not,quot; said Jill, stamping . quot;e come from another world.”
quot;tier game t; said tc;tell us, little maid, and ours?”
Of course a lot of ted into Jills once: Experiment s, cinemas, cars, aeroplanes, ration- books, queues.
But t trings of tcrument.) Jill couldnt remember time it didnt come into sed, for nos full strengted you get, tain you feel t you are not enced at all. S t it o say): quot;No. I suppose t ot be all a dream.”
quot;Yes. It is all a dream,quot; said tchrumming.
quot;Yes, all a dream,quot; said Jill.
quot;t; said tch.
quot;No,quot; said Jill and Scrubb, quot;never was such a world.”
quot;t mine,quot; said tch.
quot;t yours,quot; said they.
Puddleglum ill fig;I dont know rig you all mean by a world,”
alking like a man you can play t fiddle till your fingers drop off, and still you make me forget Narnia; and too. ell never see it again, I s ed it out and turned it dark like t I knoars. Ive seen t of tains at nig look at ness.”
Puddleglums one another like people newly awaked.
quot; is!quot; cried t;Of course! t Mars fees. ten it? Of course he sun.”
quot;By Jove, so ;Good for you, Puddleglum! Youre th any sense, I do believe.”
tcly like t ternoon; and it said: quot; is t you all speak of? Do you mean anythe word?”
quot;Yes, ; said Scrubb.
quot;Can you tell me s like?quot; asked tc trings).
quot;Please it your Grace,quot; said tely. quot;You see t lamp. It is round and yellohe roof.
No ter and brig givet to the sky.”
quot;, my lord?quot; asked tcill to answer , silver laug;You see?
ry to t clearly be, you cannot tell me. You can only tell me it is like t dream t copied from t a tale, a cory.”
quot;Yes, I see no; said Jill in a one. quot;It must be so.quot; And o o be very good sense.
Sloced, quot;t; And ted, in a softer and deeper voice. quot;t; After a pause, and after a struggle in toget;You are rig; It .
quot;t; said tch.
quot;No. t; said the children.
For t fees Jill t remember at all costs. And no . S as if
s , t seemed to take all t of ;theres Aslan.”
quot;Aslan?quot; said tcly t; a pretty name! does it mean?”
quot; Lion ; said Scrubb, quot;and sent us into to find Prince Rilian.”
quot; is a lion?quot; asked tch.
quot;O all!quot; said Scrubb. quot;Dont you knoo ?”
quot;Surely,quot; said t;I love cats.”
quot;ell, a lion is a little bit - only a little bit, mind you like a - least, its not like a s more like a judges s yellow.
And terrifically strong.”
tc;I see,quot; s;t er , tter lamp and called it ts, and no a bigger and better cat, and its to be called a lion. ell, tis a pretty makebelieve, to say trut you all better if you o your make-believe copying it from t even you coo old for suc art a man full gro asoys?
Come, all of you. Put aricks. I he real world.
to bed all. And let us begin a omorro, first, to bed; to sleep; deep sleep, soft pillo foolish dreams.”
trengtment almost complete. But Puddleglum, desperately gatrengto the fire.
t e as muc amped on t of it into as once.
First, t been put out, a good bit of it remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-
all an encing smell. tantly made everyones brain far clearer. their eyes.
Secondly, tcerrible voice, utterly different from all t tones sill no, quot; are you doing? Dare to toucurn to fire inside your veins.”
tself made Puddleglums perfectly clear and ly ain kinds of magic.
quot;One ; he pain.
quot;One e rig and t t face I can on it. So I deny any of to be said, even so. Suppose ars and Aslan , in t case, tant t of a kingdom of yours is t strikes me as a pretty poor one. And ts a funny to t. ere just babies making up a game, if youre rig four babies playing a game can make a playand by t any Aslan to lead it. Im going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if t any Narnia. So, tlemen and t at once and setting out in to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not t our lives s a small loss if the worlds as dull a place as you say.”
quot;O; cried Scrubb and Jill. But ted suddenly, quot;are! Look to tch.”
ood on end.
trument dropped from o be fastened to her sides.
ert rain of to be all one piece erlocked legs. And t s, or else s. of o disappear, except brows or lashes.
All takes time to e do t time to see it. Long before time to do anyte, and t serpent s loatning anot loop darted round, intending to pinion o the Prince was
just in time. t closed only round - ready to crack dreight.
t tures neck in rying to squeeze it till it choked.
ts face (if you could call it a face) about five incongue flickered , but could not reac rongest blo ts neck. Even t did not quite kill it, t began to loosen its . ited blos on coiling and moving like a bit of er it y mess.
t;Gentlemen, I t; tood staring at one anoting, anotime. Jill do; so ;I do faint or blub - or do anytic.”
quot;My royal mot; said Rilian presently. quot;tedly t I pursued in vain by tain in t of Narnia, so many years ago.
All t I am glad, gentlemen, t tcook to form at t. It ed or o look to t; Jill.
quot;Im all rig; said she.
quot;Damsel,quot; said to ;You are of a not, you come of a noble blood in your o come, friends. . Let us refreser t, to our plans.”
quot;A jolly good idea, Sir,quot; said Scrubb.