The others watched it for perhaps a minute, until it streamed away into the thicker trees on their right and disappeared. And Jill (who was no coward, as you know) hid her face in her hands to shut out the sight of it. It floated on the grass instead of walking, and the grass seemed to whither beneath it.Īfter one look at it Puzzle gave a screaming bray and darted into the Tower. It had four arms which it held high above its head, streching them northward as if it wanted to snatch all Narnia in its grip and its fingers–all twenty of them–were curved like its beak and had long, pointed, bird-like claws instead of nails. It was roughly the shape of a man but it had the head of a bird some bird of prey with a cruel, curved beak. Also, this thing kept its shape instead of billowing and curling as smoke would have done. But the deathly smell was not the smell of smoke. At first glance you might have mistaken it for smoke, for it was gray and you could see things through it. In the shadow of the trees on the far side of the clearing something was moving. True freedom means doing what I tell you.” What do you know about freedom? You think freedom means doing what you like. I’m a Man: you’re only a fat, stupid old Bear. “Now don’t you start arguing,” said the Ape, “for it’s a thing I won’t stand. And we want to hear Aslan speak himself.” “But we don’t want all those things,” said an old Bear. There’ll be oranges and bananas pouring in–and roads and big cities and schools and offices and whips and muzzles and saddles and cages and kennels and prisons–Oh, everything.” We’ll be able, with the money you earn, to make Narnia a country worth living in.
“Or if you drank water and it were dry water. Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.”
“Do you think I care if Aslan doomes me to death?” said the King. “You will go to your death, then,” said Jewel.
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