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me?鈥

〃how in the name of all humbug can i see what aint there? and how can i  see you any more than you can see me in this pitch darkness?鈥

〃but i can see you;〃 said lucy。 〃ill prove i can see you。 youve got a  pipe in your mouth。鈥

〃anyone that knows the smell of baccy could tell that;〃 said diggle。

〃oh the poor things! this is dreadful;〃 said lucy。 then she had an idea。  she stopped and picked some wild violets。 〃listen; dwarf;〃 she said。 〃even if your eyes are  wrong; perhaps your nose is all right: can you smell that?〃 she leaned across and  held the fresh; damp flowers to diggles ugly nose。 but she had to jump back quickly in  order to avoid a blow from his hard little fist。

〃none of that!〃 he shouted。 〃how dare you! what do you mean by shoving a  lot of filthy stable…litter in my face? there was a thistle in it too。 its like your  sauce! and who are you anyway?鈥

〃earth…man;〃 said tirian; 〃she is the queen lucy; sent hither by aslan out  of the deep past。 and it is for her sake alone that i; tirian your lawful king; do not  cut all your heads from your shoulders; proved and twice…proved traitors that you are。鈥

〃well if that doesnt beat everything!〃 exclaimed diggle。 〃how can you go  on talking all that rot? your wonderful lion didnt e and help you; did he? thought  not。 and now … even now … when youve been beaten and shoved into this black hole; just  the same as the rest of us; youre still at your old game。 starting a new lie! trying to  make us believe were none of us shut up; and it aint dark; and heaven knows what。鈥

〃there is no black hole; save in your own fancy; fool;〃 cried tirian。 〃e  out of it。鈥

and; leaning forward; he caught diggle by the belt and the hood and swung  him right out of the circle of dwarfs。 but the moment tirian put him down; diggle darted  back to his place among the others; rubbing his nose and howling:  〃ow! ow! what dyou do that for! banging my face against the wall。 youve  nearly broken my nose。鈥

〃oh dear!〃 said lucy; 〃what are we to do for them?鈥

〃let em alone;〃 said eustace: but as he spoke the earth trembled。 the  sweet air grew suddenly sweeter。 a brightness flashed behind them。 all turned。 tirian  turned last because he was afraid。 there stood his hearts desire; huge and real; the  golden lion; aslan himself; and already the others were kneeling in a circle round his  forepaws and burying their hands and faces in his mane as he stooped his great head to  touch them with his tongue。 then he fixed his eyes upon tirian; and tirian came near;  trembling; and flung himself at the lions feet; and the lion kissed him and said; 〃well  done; last of the kings of narnia who stood firm at the darkest hour。鈥

〃aslan;〃 said lucy through her tears; 〃could you … will you … do something  for these poor dwarfs?鈥

〃dearest;〃 said aslan; 〃i will show you both what i can; and what i cannot;  do。〃 he came close to the dwarfs and gave a low growl: low; but it set all the air  shaking。 but the dwarfs said to one another; 〃hear that? thats the gang at the other end of  the stable。

trying to frighten us。 they do it with a machine of some kind。 dont take  any notice。

they wont take us in again!鈥

aslan raised his head and shook his mane。 instantly a glorious feast  appeared on the dwarfs knees: pies and tongues and pigeons and trifles and ices; and each  dwarf had a goblet of good wine in his right hand。 but it wasnt much use。 they began  eating and drinking greedily enough; but it was clear that they couldnt taste it  properly。 they thought they were eating and drinking only the sort of things you might  find in a stable。

one said he was trying to eat hay and another said he had a bit of an old  turnip and a third said hed found a raw cabbage leaf。 and they raised golden goblets of rich  red wine to their lips and said 〃ugh! fancy drinking dirty water out of a trough that a  donkeys been at! never thought wed e to this。〃 but very soon every dwarf began  suspecting that every other dwarf had found something nicer than he had; and they started  grabbing and snatching; and went on to quarrelling; till in a few minutes there was a  free fight and all the good food was smeared on their faces and clothes or trodden under foot。  but when at last they sat down to nurse their black eyes and their bleeding noses; they  all said:  〃well; at any rate theres no humbug here。 we havent let anyone take us  in。 the dwarfs are for the dwarfs。鈥

〃you see; 〃 said aslan。 〃they will not let us help them。 they have chosen  cunning instead of belief。 their prison is only in their own minds; yet they are in  that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out。 but e;  children。 i have other work to do。鈥

he went to the door and they all followed him。 he raised his head and  roared; 〃now it is time!〃 then louder; 〃time!〃; then so loud that it could have shaken the  stars; 〃time。鈥

the door flew open。

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN

銆灏忥伎璇磘xt澶'鍫
night falls on narnia   they all stood beside aslan; on his right side; and looked through the open  doorway。

the bonfire had gone out。 on the earth all was blackness: in fact you could  not have told that you were looking into a wood if you had not seen where the dark shapes  of the trees ended and the stars began。 but when aslan had roared yet again; out on  their left they saw another black shape。 that is; they saw another patch where there were  no stars: and the patch rose up higher and higher and became the shape of a man; the  hugest of all giants。 they all knew narnia well enough to work out where he must be  standing。 he must be on the high moorlands that stretch away to the north beyond the  river shribble。

then jill and eustace remembered how once long ago; in the deep caves  beneath those moors; they had seen a great giant asleep and been told that his name was  father time; and that he would wake on the day the world ended。

〃yes;〃 said aslan; though they had not spoken。 〃while he lay dreaming his  name was time。 now that he is awake he will have a new one。鈥

then the great giant raised a horn to his mouth。 they could see this by the  change of the black shape he made against the stars。 after that … quite a bit later;  because sound travels so slowly … they heard the sound of the horn: high and terrible; yet of a  strange; deadly beauty。

immediately the sky became full of shooting stars。 even one shooting star  is a fine thing to see; but these were dozens; and then scores; and then hundreds; till it  was like silver rain: and it went on and on。 and when it had gone on for some while; one or  two of them began to think that there was another dark shape against the sky as well as  the giants。 it was in a different place; right overhead; up in the very roof of the sky as  you might call it。

〃perhaps it is a cloud;〃 thought edmund。 at any rate; there were no stars  there: just blackness。 but all around; the downpour of stars went on。 and then the  starless patch  

began to grow; spreading further and further out from the centre of the  sky。 and presently a quarter of the whole sky was black; and then a half; and at last the rain  of shooting stars was going on only low down near the horizon。

with a thrill of wonder (and there was some terror in it too) they all  suddenly realized what was happening。 the spreading blackness was not a cloud at all: it was  simply emptiness。 the black part of the sky was the part in which there were no  stars left。 all the stars were falling: aslan had called them home。

the last few seconds before the rain of stars had quite ended were very  exciting。 stars began falling all round them。 but stars in that world are not the great  flaming globes they are in ours。 they are people (edmund and lucy had once met one)。 so now  they found showers of glittering people; all with long hair like burning silver and  spears like white…hot metal; rushing down to them out of the black air; swifter than falling  stones。 they made a hissing noise as they landed and burnt the grass。 and all these  stars glided past them and stood somewhere behind; a little to the right。

this was a great advantage; because otherwise; now that there were no stars  in the sky; everything would have been pletely dark and you could have seen nothing。  as it was; the crowd of stars behind them cast a fierce; white light over their  shoulders。 they could see mile upon mile of narnian woods spread out before them; looking as if  they were floodlit。 every bush and almost every blade of grass had its black shadow  behind it。 the edge of every leaf stood out so sharp that youd think you could cut your  finger on it。

on the grass before them lay their own shadows。 but the great thing was  aslans shadow。

it streamed away to their left; enormous and very terrible。 and all this  was under a sky that would now be starless forever。

the light from behind them (and a little to their right) was so strong that  it lit up even the slopes of the northern moors。 something was moving there。 enormous animals  were crawling and sliding down into narnia: great dragons and giant lizards and  featherless birds with wings like bats wings。 they disappeared into the woods 

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