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THE LION ROARS WHEN the whole party was finally awake Lucy had to tell her story for the fourth ti.
The bnk silence which followed it was as disg as anythinuld be.
quot;I t see anything,quot; said Peter after he had stared his eyes sore. quot; you, Susan?”
quot;No, ourse I t,quot; snapped Susan. quot;Because there isnt anything to see. Shes been dreang. Do lie down and go to sleep, Lucy.”
quot;And I do hope,quot; said Lu a trelous oice, quot;that you will all e with .
Because - because Ill hae to go with hiwhether anyone else does or not.”
quot;Dont talk nonsense, Lucy,quot; said Susan. quot;Ourse you t go off on your own. Do her, Peter. Shes being dht naughty.”
quot;Ill go with her, if she st go,quot; said Ednd. quot;Shes been right before.”
quot;I know she has,quot; said Peter. quot;And she y hae been right this We certainly had no luck going down the ge. Still - at this h9９ｌib?our of the night. And why should Asn be inisible to us? He neer used to be. Its not like hi What does the D.L.F. say?”
quot;Oh, I say nothing at all,quot; answered the Dwarf. quot;If you all go, ourse, Ill go with you; and if your party splits up, Ill go with the High King. Thats duty to hiand King Caspian. But, if you ask  riate opinion, Ia pin dwarf who doesnt think theres ch ce of finding a road by night where youldnt find one by day. And I hae no use fic lions which are talking lions and dont talk, and friendly lions though they dont do us any good, and whopping big lions though nobody see the Its all bilge aalks as far as I see.”
quot;Hes beating his paw on the ground for us to hurry,quot; said Lucy. quot;We st go now. At least I st.”
quot;Youe nht to try to force the rest of us like that. Its four to one and youre the you,quot; said Susan.
quot;Oh, e on,quot; growled Ednd. quot;Wee got to go. Therell be no peace till we do.quot; He fully inteo back Lucy up, but he was a losing his nights sleep and was king up for it by doihing as sulkily as possible.
quot;On the rch, then,quot; said Peter, wearily fitting his arinto his shield- strap and putting his he on. At any other ti he would hae said sothing o Lubsp; who was his faourite sister, for he kched she st be feeling, and he khat,
whateer had happened, it was not her fau. But huldnt help being a little annoyed with her all the sa.
Susan was the worst. quot;Supposing I started behaing like Lucy,quot; she said. quot;I ght threaten to stay here whether the rest of you went on or not. I jolly well think I shall.”
quot;Obey the High King, your Majesty,quot; said Trukin, quot;as be off. If Inot to be allowed to sleep, Id as soon rch as staalking.”
And so at st they got on the e. Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she fot thewhen she fied her eyes on Asurned and walked at a slow pace about thirty yards ahead of the The others had only Lucys dires to guide the for Asn was not only inisible 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 still dang nobody knew, for Lucy had her eyes on the Lion and the rest had their eyes on Lubsp; - and he edge of the ge. quot;bbles aledru!quot; thought Trukin. quot;I hope this dness isnt going to end in a onlight cli and broken necks.”
For a long way As along the top of the precipices. Then they bsp; to a pce where so little trees grew right on the edge. He turned and disappeared ang the
Lucy held her breath, for it looked as if he had plunged oer the cliff; but she was too busy keeping hiin sight to stop and think about this. She quied her  ad was soon ang the trees herself. Looking down, shuld see a steep and narrow path going sntwise down into the ge between rocks, and Asn desding it. He turned and looked at her with his happy eyes. Lucy cpped her hands and began to scrale down after hi Frobehind her she heard the oices of the others shouting, quot;Hi! Lucy! Look out, foodness sake. Youre right on the edge of the ge. e back - quot;and then, a nt ter, Ednds oice saying, quot;No, shes right. There is a way down.”
Hal;rk;/rkf-way dowh Ednd caught up with her.
quot;Look!quot; he said i et. quot;Look! Whats that shadow crawling down in front of us?”
quot;Its his shado;quot; said Lucy.
quot;I do beliee youre right, Lu,quot; said Ednd. quot;I t think how I didnt see it before. But where is he?”
quot;With his shadow, ourse. t you see hi”
quot;Well, I alst thought I did - for a nt. Its such a rulight.”
quot;Get on, King Ednd, get on,quot; ca Trukins oice frobehind and aboe: and then, farther behind and still nearly at the top, Peters oice saying, quot;Oh, buck up, Susan.
Gie your hand. Why, a babuld get down here. And do stop grousing.”
In a few hey were at the bottoand the r of water filled their ears.
Treading delicately, like a cat, Asn stepped frostoo stone across the 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 quot;Oh, Asn!quot; he cried, darting forward. But the Lion whisked round and began padding up the slope on the far side of the Rush.
quot;Peter, Peter,quot; cried Ednd. quot;Did you see?”
quot;I saw sothing,quot; said Peter. quot;But its so tricky in this onlight. On we go, though, and three cheers for Lucy. I dont feel half so tired now, either.”
Asn without hesitatioheto their left, farther up the ge. The whole journey was odd and drealike the r strea the wet grey grass, the gliering cliffs which they were approag, and always the glorious, silently pag Beast ahead.
Eeryo Susan and the Dwaruld see hinow.
Presently they ca to aeep path, up the face of the farther  recipices. These were far higher than the ohey had just desded, and the journey up thewas a long and tedious zig-zag. Fortuhe Moon shht aboe the ge so that her side was in shadow.
Lucy was nearly blowhe tail and hind legs of Asnbbr?;/abbr disappeared oer the top: but with o effort she scraled after hiand ca out, rather shaky- legged and breathless, on the hill they had been trying to reach eer sihey left Gsswater. The lole slope (heather and grass and a few ery big rocks that shone white in the onlight) stretched up to where it anished in a glier of trees about half a le away. She k. It was the hill of the Stoable: With a jingling of il the others clied up behind her. Asn glided on before theand they walked after hi
quot;Lucy,quot; said Susan in a ery sll oice.
quot;Yes?quot; said Lucy.
quot;I see hinow. Isorry.”
quot;Thats all right.”
quot;But Ie been far worse than you know. I really belieed it was hi- he, I an - yesterday. When he warned us not to go down to the fir wood. And I really belieed it
was hitonight, when you woke us up. I an, deep down inside. Or uld hae, if Id let self. But I just wao get out of the woods and - and - oh, I dont know. And what eer aI to say to hi”
quot;Perhaps you woo say ch,quot; suggested Lucy.
Soon they reached the trees and through thethe childreuld see the Great Mound, Asns How, which had been raised oer the Table siheir days.
quot;Our side dont keep ery good watch,quot; ttered Trukin. quot;We ought to hae been challenged before now -”
quot;Hush!quot; said the other four, for now Asn had stopped and turned and stood fag the looking so jestic that they fe as gd as anyone who feels afraid, and as afraid as anyone who feels gd. The boys strode forward: Lucy de way for the Susan and the Dwarf shrank back.
quot;Oh, Asn,quot; said Kier, dropping on one knee and raising the Lions heay paw to his face, quot;Iso gd. And Iso sorry. Ie been leading thewrong eer since we started and especially yesterday ”
quot;My dear son,quot; said Asn.
Theurned and weled Ednd. quot;Well done,quot; were his words.
Then, after an awful pause, the deep oice said, quot;Susan.quot; Susan de no answer but the others thought she was g. quot;You hae listeo fears, child,quot; said Asn. quot;e, let breathe on you. Fet the Are you brae again?”
quot;A little, Asn,quot; said Susan.
quot;And no;quot; said Asn in a ch louder oice with just a hint of roar in it, while his tail shed his fnks. quot;And now, where is this little Dwarf, this faus swordsn and archer, who doesnt beliee in lions? e here, son of Earth, e HERE!quot; - and the st word was no lohe hint of a roar but alst the real thing.
quot;Wraiths and wreckage!quot; gasped Trukin in the ghost of a oice. The children, who knew Asn well enough to see that he liked the Dwarf ery ch, were not disturbed; but it was quite ahing for Trukin, who had neer seen a lion before, let alohis Lion. He did the only sensible thing huld hae dohat is, instead of boing, he tottered towards Asn.
Asn pounced. Hae you eer seen a ery young kitten being carried in the ther cats uth? It was like that. The Dwarf, hunched up in a little, serable ball, hung froAsns uth. The Lion gae hione shake and all his arur rattled like a tinkers pad then - heypresto - the Dwarf flew up in the air. He was as safe as if he had been
ihough he did not feel so. As he ca down the huge elety paws caught hias gently as a thers ar a hi(right , too) on the ground.
quot;Son of Earth, shall we be friends?quot; asked Asn.
quot;Ye - he - he - hes,quot; pahe Dwarf, for it had not yet got its breath back.
quot;No;quot; said Asn. quot;The Moon is setting. Look behind you: there is the dawn beginning.
We hae 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 if Asn would follow the All three drew their swords and saluted, then turned and jingled away into the dusk.
Luoticed that there was no sign of weariness in their faces: both the High King and King Ednd looked re like n than boys.
The girls watched theout of sight, standing close beside Asn. The light was ging.
Low down in the east, Arair, the star of Narnia, glead like a little on.
Asn, who seed rger than before, lifted his head, shook his ne, and roared.
The sound, deep and throbbing at first like an an beginning on a low note, rose and beca louder, and then far in, till the earth and air were shaking with it. It rose up frothat hill and floated across all Narnia. Down in Mirazs bsp; n woke, stared palely in one anothers faces, and grasped their ons. Down below that in the Great Rier, now at itldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nyhs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the rier-god, rose frothe water. Beyond it, in eery field and wood, the alert ears of rabbits rose frotheir holes, the sleepy heads of birds ca out frounder wings, owls hooted, iens barked, hedgehogs gruhe trees stirred. In towns and ilges thers pressed babies close to their breasts, staring with wild eyes, dogs whiered, and n leaped up groping fhts. Far away on the northern frohe untain giants peered frothe dark gateways of their;cite;/cite castles.
What Lud Susan saw was a dark sothing ing to thefroalst eery dire across the hills. It looked first like a bck st creeping on the ground, then like the stor waes of a bck sea rising higher and higher as it , and then, at st, like what it was woods on the e. All the trees of the world appeared to be rushing towards Asn. But as they drew hey looked less like trees; and when the whole crowd, bowing and curtsying and waing thin long ar to Asn, were all around Lucy, she saw that it was a crowd of hun shapes. Pale birch-girls were tossing their heads, willowwon pushed back their hair frotheir brooding faces to gaze on Asn, the queenly beeches stood still and adored hi shaggy oak-n, lean and ncholy el, shockheaded hollies (dark theeles, but their wies all bright with berries) and gay rowans, all bowed and rose again, shouting, quot;Asn, Asn!quot; in their arious husky or creaking or wae-like oices.
The crowd and the dance round Asn (for it had bee a dance re) grew so thid rapid that Lucy was fused. She neer saw where certain other  eople ca frowho were soon capering about ang the trees. One was a youth, dressed only in a fawn-sk?in, with ine-leaes wreathed in his curly hair. His face would hae been alst too pretty for a boys, if it had not looked, so etrely wild. You fe, as Ednd said when he saw hia few days ter, quot;Theres a chap who ght do anything absolutely anything.quot; He seed to hae a great ny nas - Broos, Bassareus, and the Rawere three of the There were a lot of girls with hi as wild as he. There was een, uedly, soone on a donkey. And eerybody was ughing: and eerybody was shouting out, quot;Euan, euan, eu-oi-oi-oi.”
quot;Is it a Ro, Asn?quot; cried the youth. And apparently it was. But nearly eeryoo hae a different idea as to what they were pying. It y hae been Tig, but Lueer dered who was It. It was rather like Blind Mans Buff, only eeryone behaed as if they were blindfolded. It was not unlike Hunt the Slipper, but the slipper was neer found. What de it re plicated was that the n on the donkey, who was old and enorusly fat, began calling out at once, quot;Refreshnts! Ti for refreshnts,quot; and falling off his donkey and being bundled on to it again by the others, while the donkey was uhe iression that the whole thing was a cirbsp; and tried to gie a dispy of walking on its hind legs. And all the ti there were re and re ine leaes eerywhere. And soon not only leaes but ihey were g up eerything. They were running up the legs of the tree people and cirg round their necks. Lucy put up her hands to push back her hair and found she ushing bae brahe donkey was a ss of the His tail letely entangled and sothing dark was noddiween his ears. Lucy looked again and saw it was a bunch of grapes. After that it was stly grapes oerhead and underfoot and all around.
quot;Refreshnts! Refreshnts,quot; roared the old n.
Eeryone begaing, and whateer hothouses your people y hae, you hae asted such grapes. Really good grapes, firand tight oside, but bursting intol sweetness when you put theinto your uth, were one of the things the girls had neer had quite enough of before. Here, there were re than anyonuld  ossibly want, and rib table-nners at all. One saw sticky and stained fingers eerywhere, and, though uths were full, the ughter neer ceased nor the yodelling cries of Euan, euan, eu-oi-oi-oi-oi, till all of a sudden eeryo at the sa nt that the ga (whateer it was), and the feast, ought to be oer, and eeryone flopped dowhless on the ground and turheir faces to Asn to hear what he would say .
At that nt the sun was just rising and Lucy reered sothing and whispered to Susan, quot;I say, Su, I know who they are.”
quot;Who?”
quot;The boy with the wild face is Bahus and the old one on the donkey is Silenus. Dont you reer Mr Tuus telling us about thelong ago?”
quot;Yes, ourse. But I say, Lu “
quot;What?”
quot;I wouldnt hae fe safe with Bahus and all his wild girls if wed t thewithout Asn.”
quot;I should think not,quot; said Lucy.
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