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ASLAN MAKES A DOOR IN THE AIR AT the sight of Asn the cheeks of the Telrine soldiers beca the nbslour old gray, their knees kogether, and ny fell on their faces. They had not belieed
in lions and this de their fear greater. Een the Red Dwarfs, who khat he ca as a friend, stood with open uths anuld not speak. So of the Bbsp; Dwarfs, who had been of Nikabriks party, began to edge away. But all the Talking Beasts surged round the Lion, with purrs and grunts and squeaks and whinneys of delight, fawning on hiwith their tails, rubbing against hi toug hireerently with their noses and going t;df;/dfno and fro under his body aween his legs. If you hae eer seen a little cat loing a big dog whoit knows and trusts, you will hae a pretty good  icture of their behaiour. Theer, leading Caspian, forced his way through the crowd of anils.
quot;This is Caspian, Sir,quot; he said. And Caspia and kissed the Lions  aw.
quot;Wele, Prince,quot; said Asn. quot;Do you feel yourself suffit to take up the Kingship of Narnia?”
quot;I - I dont think I do, Sir,quot; said Caspian. quot;Ionly a kid.”
quot;Good,quot; said Asn. quot;If you had fe yourself suffit, it would hae been a proof that you were not. Therefore, under us and uhe High King, you shall be King of Narnia, Lord of Cair Parael, and Eeror of the Lone Isnds. You and your heirs while your race sts. And your ation - but what hae we here?quot; For at that nt a curious little processi - eleen Mice, si of whocarried betweehing on a litter de of branches, but the litter was no bigger than a rge ats. No one has eer seen ce re woebegohan these. They were pstered with d so with blood too - and their ears were down and their whiskers drooped and their tails dragged in the grass, and their leader piped on his slender pipe a ncholy tuer y what seed little better than a da heap of fur; all that was left of Reepicheep. He was still breathing, but re dead than alie, gashed with innurable wounds, one paw crushed, and, where his tail had been, a bau.
quot;Now, Lucy,quot; said Asn.
Lucy had her diand bottle out in a nt. Though only a drop was needed on each of Reepicheeps wounds, the wounds were so ny that there was a long and anious silence before she had finished and the Master Mouse sprang frothe litter. His ha at oo his sword hi, with the other he twirled his whiskers. He bowed.
quot;Hail, Asn!quot; ca his shrill oice. quot;I hae the honour -quot; But then he suddenly stopped.
The fact was that he still had no tail - whether that Lucy had fotten it or that herdial, though iuld heal woundsuld not ke things grow again. Reepicheep beca aware of his loss as he de his bow; perhaps it aered sothing in his bance.
He looked oer his right shoulder. Failing to see his tail, he strained his neck further till he had to turn his shoulders and his whole body followed. But by that ti his hind-quarters had turoo and were out of sight. Therained his nebsp; looking oer his shoulder again, with the sa resu. Only after he had turned pletely round three tis did he realize the dreadful truth.
quot;I afounded,quot; said Reepicheep to Asn. quot;I apletely out of tenance. I st crae your indulgence for appearing in this unseey fashion.”
quot;It bees you ery well, Sll One,quot; said Asn.
quot;All the sa,quot; replied Reepicheep, quot;if anythinuld be done... Perhaps her Majesty?”
and here he bowed to Lucy.
quot;But what do you want with a tail?quot; asked Asn.
quot;Sir,quot; said the Mouse, quot;I eat and sleep and die for King without one. But a tail is the honour and glory of a Mouse.”
quot;I hae sotis wondered, friend,quot; said Asn, quot;whether you do not think too ch about your honour.”
quot;Highest of all High Kings,quot; said Reepicheep, quotert to rend you that a ery sll size has beeowed on us Mice, and if we did not guard nity, so (who gh worth by inches) would allow theeles ery unsuitable pleasantries at our epehat is why I hae been at so pains to ke it known that no one who does not wish to feel this sword as near his heart as I reach shall talk in presence about Traps or Toasted Cheese or dles: no, Sir - not the tallest fool in Narnia!quot; Here he gred ery fiercely up at Wileweather, but the Giant, who was always a stage behind eeryone else, had not yet dere;q..;/qd what was being talked about down at his feet, and so ssed the point.
quot;Why hae your followers all drawn their swords, y I ask?quot; said Asn.
quot;May it please yh Majesty,quot; said the seouse, whose na eepiceek, quot;we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief st go without his. We will not bear the sha of wearing an honour which is deo the High Mouse.”
quot;Ah!quot; roared Asn. quot;You hae quered . You hae great hearts. Not for the sake of ynity, Reepicheep, but for the loe that is between you and your  eople, and still re for the kindness your people showed long ago when you ate away the nbsrds that bound ooable (and it was then, though you hae long fotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall hae your tail again.”
Before Asn had finished speaking the ail was in its pce. Then, at Asns and, Peter bestowed the Knighthood of the Order of the Lion on Caspian, and Caspian, as soon as he was knighted, hielf bestowed it on Trufflehunter and Trukin and Reepicheep, and de Doctor elius his Lord cellor, and fird the Bulgy Bear in his hereditary offiarshal of the Lists. And there was great appuse.
After this the Telrine soldiers, firy but without taunts or blows, were taken across the ford and all put under lod key iown of Beruna and gien beef and beer.
They de a great fuss about wading in the rier, for they all hated and feared running water just as ch as they hated and feared woods and anils. But in the end the nuisance was oer: and then the  arts of that long day began.
Lucy, sitting close to Asn and diinely fortable, wondered what the trees were doing. At first she thought they were rely dang; they were certainly going round slowly in two circles, one froleft tht and the other frht to left. Theiced that they kept throwing sothing down ire of both circles. Sotis she thought they were cutting off long strands of their hair; at other tis it looked as if they were breaking off bits of their fingers - but, if so, they had plenty of fio spare and it did not hurt the But whateer they were throwing down, whe;s;/sn it reached the ground, it beca brushwood or dry sticks. Then three or four of the Red Dwarfs ca forward with their tinder boes a light to the pile, which first crackled, and then bzed, and finally roared as a woodnd bonfire on dsuer night ought to do. And eeryo down in a wide circle round it.
Then Bahus and Silenus and the Maenads began a dance, far wilder than the dance of the trees; not rely a dance for fun ay (though it was that too) but a gice of plenty, and where their hands touched, and where their feet fell, the feast ca ience sides of roasted at that filled the groe with delicious sll, and wheaten cakes and oaten cakes, honey and nloured sugars and creaas thick as pe and as soth as still water, peaches, arines, pogranates,  ears, grapes, strawberries, raspberries pyrads and cataracts of fruit. Then, i wooden cups and bowls and zers, wreathed with iy, ca the wines; dark, thies like syrups of lberry juice, and clear red ones like red jellies liquefied, and yellow wines and green wines and yellow-green and greenish-yellow.
But for the tree people different fare roided. When Lucy saw Clodsley Shoel and his les scuffling up the turf in arious pces (which Bahus had  ointed out to the
and realized that the trees were going to eat earth it gae her rather a shudder. But when she saw the earths that were actually brought to theshe fe quite different. They began with a rich brown loathat looked alst eactly like cte; so like cte, in fact, that Ednd tried a piece of it, but he did not find it at all nibsp; When the ri had taken the edge off their huhe trees turo ah of the kind you see in Sorset, which is alst pink. They said it was lighter and sweeter. At the;rk藏书网;/rk cheese stage they had a chalky soil, and the on to delicate fes of the fi graels powdered with choice siler sand. They drank ery little wine, and it de the Hollies ery talkatie: for the st part they queheir thirst with deep draughts of ngled dew and rain, foured with forest flowers and the airy taste of the thi clouds.
Thus Ased the Narnians till long after the su had died away, and the stars had e out; and the great fire, now hotter but less noisy, shone like a bea in the dark woods, and the frighteelrines saw it frofar away and wondered what it ght an. The best thing of all about this feast was that there was no breaking up oing
away, but as the talk grew quieter and slower, oer another would begin to nod and finally drop off to sleep with feet towards the fire and good friends oher side, till at st there was silence all round the circle, and the chattering of water oer sto the Ford of Berunuld be heard once re. But all night Asn and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
day ssengers (who were chiefly squirrels and birds) were sent all oer the try with a pro to the scattered Telrines - including, of nbsurse, the prisoners in Beruna. They were told that Caspian was now King and that Narnia would heh belong to the Talkis and the Dwarfs and Dryads and Fauns and other creatures quite as ch as to the n. Any who chose to stay uhe new ditions ght do so; but for those who did not like the idea, Asn would proide another ho.
Anyone who wished to go there st e to Asn and the Kings at the Ford of Beruna by noon on the fifth day. You y igihat this caused plenty of head- scratg ang the Telrines. So of the chiefly the young ones, had, like Caspian, heard stories of the Old Days and were delighted that they had e back. They were already king friends with the creatures. These all decided to stay in Narnia. But st of the older n, especially those who had been iortant under Miraz, were sulky and had no wish to lie in a try where theuld not rule the roost. quot;Lie here with a lot of bloong perf anils! No fear,quot; they said. quot;And ghosts too,quot; so added with a shudder. quot;Thats what those there Dryads really are. Its not y.quot; They were also suspicious. quot;I dont trust equot; they said. quot;Not with that awful Lion and all. He wont keep his cws off us long, youll see.quot; But then they were equally suspicious of his offer to gie thea new ho. quot;Take us off to his den a us one by o likely,quot; they ttered. And the re they talked to one ahe sulkier and re suspicious they beca. But on the appointed day re than half of theturned up.
At one end of the gde Asn had caused to be set up two stakes of wood, higher than a ns head and about three feet apart. A third, and lighter, piece of wood was bound across theat the top, uniting the so that the whole thing looked like a doorway fronowhere into nowhere. In front of this stood Asn hielf with Peter on his right and Caspian on his left. Grouped round thewere Susan and Lucy, Trukin and Trufflehuhe Lord elius, Glenstor Reepicheep, and others. The children and the Dwarfs had de good use of the royal wardrobes in what had been the castle of Miraz and was now the castle of Caspian, and what with silk and cloth of gold, with snowy linen gng through sshed sleees, with siler il shirts and jewelled sword-his, with gi hes ahered bos, they were alst tht to look at.
Een the beasts wore rich s about their necks. Yet nobodys eyes were ohe children. The liing and strokable gold of Asns shohenbsp; all. The rest of the Old Narnians stood down each side of the gde. At the far end stood the Telrines.
The sun shone brightly and pennants fluttered in the light wind.
quot;Men of Telr,quot; said Asn, quot;you who seek a new nd, hear words. I will send you all to your own try, which I know and you do not.”
quot;We doelr. We dont know where it is. We dont know what it is like,”
gruled the Telrines.
quot;You to Narnia out of Telr,quot; said Asn. quot;But you to Telr froanother pce. You do not belong to this world at all. You ca hither, certain geions ago, out of that sa world to which the High Kier belongs.”
At this, half the Telrines began whiering, quot;There you are. Told you so. Hes going to kill us all, send us right out of the world,quot; and the other half began throwing out their chests and spping one another on the bad whispering, quot;There you are. Might hae guessed we didnt belong to this pce with all its queer, nasty, unnatural creatures. Were of royal blood, youll see.quot; And een Caspian and elius and the children turo Asn with looks of azent on their faces.
quot;Peace,quot; said Asn in the low oice which was o his growl. The earth seed to shake a little and eery liing thing in the groe beca still as stone.
quot;You, Sir Caspian,quot; said Asn, quot;ght hae known that yould be no true King of Narnia unless, like the Kings of old, you were a son of Adaand ca fronbsp; the world of Ada sons. And so you are. Many years ago in that world, in a deep sea of that world which is called the South Sea, a shipload of pirates were drien by stornbsp; on an isnd.
And there they did as pirates would: killed the naties and took the natie won for wies, and de palwine, and drank and were drunk, and y in the shade of the parees, and woke up and quarrelled, and sotis killed one another. And in one of these frays si were put to flight by the rest and fled with their won into the tre of the isnd and up a untain, a, as they thought, into a cae to hide. But it was one of the gical pces of that world, one of the ks or chas between chat world and this. There were ny ks or chas between worlds in old tis, but they hae grown rarer. This was one of the st: I do not say the st. And so they fell, or rose, or blundered, or dropped right through, and found theeles in this world, in the Land of Telr which was then unpeopled. But why it was unpeopled is a long story: I will not tell it now. And iheir desdants lied and beca a fierd  roud people; and after ny geions there was a fane in Telr and they inaded Narnia, which was then in so disorder (but that also would be a long story), and quered it and ruled it. Do you rk all this well, King Caspian?”
quot;I do indeed, Sir,quot; said Caspian. quot;I was wishing that I ca of a re honourable lineage.”
quot;You e of the Lord Adaand the Lady Ee,quot; said Asn. quot;And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and sha enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest eeror oh. Be tent.”
Caspian bowed.
quot;And no;quot; said Asn, quot;you n and won of Telr, will you go back to that isnd in the world of n frowhich your fathers first ca? It is no bad pbsp; The race of those pirates who first found it has died out, and it is without inhabitants. There are good wells of fresh water, and fruitful soil, and tier for building, and fish in the goons; and the other n of that world hae not yet dered it. The chasis open for your return; but this I st warn you, that once you hae gh, it will close behind you for eer. There will be no re erce between the worlds by that door.”
There was silence for a nt. Then a burly, det looking fellow ang the Telrine soldiers pushed forward and said: quot;Well, Ill take the offer.”
quot;It is well chosen,quot; said Asn. quot;And because you hae spoken first, strong gic is upon you. Your future in that world shall be good. e forth.”
The n, now a little pale, ca forward. Asn and hiurt drew aside, leaing hifree aess to the ety doorway of the stakes.
quot;Gh it, son,quot; said Asn, bending towards hiand toug the ns h his own. As soon as the Lions breath ca about hi a new look bsp; into the ns eyes - startled, but not unhappy - as if he were trying to reer sothing. Then he squared his shoulders and walked into the Door.
Eeryones eyes were fied on hi They saw the three pieces of wood, and through thethe trees and grass and sky of Narnia. They saw the ween the doorposts: then, in one sed, he had aterly.
Frothe other end of the gde the reining Telrines set up a wailing. quot;Ugh! Whats happeo hi Do you an to rder us? ;u藏书网;/uWe wont go that way.quot; And then one of the cleer Telrines said: quot;We dont see any other world through those sticks. If you want us to beliee in it, why doesnt one of you go? All your own friends are keeping well away frothe sticks.”
Instantly Reepicheep stood forward and bowed. quot;If eale be of any serice, Asn,quot; he said, quot;I will take eleehrough that arch at your bidding without a nts dey.”
quot;Nay, little one,quot; said Asn, ying his elety paw eer so lightly on Reepicheeps head.
quot;They would do dreadful things to you in that world. They would show you at fairs. It is others who st lead.”
quot;e on,quot; said Peter suddenly to Ednd and Lucy. quot;Our tis up.”
quot;What do you an?quot; said Ednd.
quot;This way,quot; said Susan, who seed to know all about it. quot;Bato the trees. Wee got to ge.”
quot;ge what?quot; asked Lucy.
quot;Our clothes, ourse,quot; said Susan. quot;Nice fools wed look ofornbsp; of an English station in these.”
quot;But our other things are at Caspians castle,quot; said Ednd.
quot;No, theyre not,quot; said Peter, still leading the way into the thickest wood. quot;Theyre all here. They were brought down in buhis Its all arranged.”
quot;Was that what Asn was talking to you and Susan about this quot; asked Lucy.
quot;Yes - that and other things,quot; said Peter, his face ery sole. quot;I t tell it to you all.
There were things he wao say to Su and because were not ing back to Narnia.”
quot;Neer?quot; cried Ednd and Lu disy.
quot;Oh, you two are,quot; answered Peter. quot;At least, frowhat he said, Ipretty sure he ans you to get bae day. But not Su and . He says were getting too old.”
quot;Oh, Peter,quot; said Lucy. quot;What awful bad lubsp; you bear it?”
quot;Well, I think I ,quot; said Peter. quot;Its all rather different frowhat I thought. Youll uand when it es to your st ti. But, quick, here are our things.”
It was odd, and not ery o take off their royal clothes and to e ba their school things (not ery fresh now) into that great assely. One or two of the nastier Telrines jeered. But the other creatures all cheered and rose up in honour of Peter the High King, and Queen Susan of the Horn, and King Ednd, and Queen Lubsp; There were affeate and (on Lucys part) tearful farewells with all their old friends - anil kisses, and hugs froBulgy Bears, and hands wrung by Trukin, and a st tickly, whiskerish erace with Trufflehunter. And ourse Caspian offered the Horn back to Susan and ourse Susan told hito keep it. And then, wonderfully and terribly, it was farewell to Asn hielf, aer took his pce with Susans hands on his shoulders and Ednds on hers and Lucys on his and the first of the Telrines on Lucys, and so in a long lihey ed forward to the Door. After that ca a nt which is hard to describe, for the childreo be seeing three things at once. One was the uth of a cae opening into the gring green and blue of an isnd in the Pacific, where all the Telrines would find theeles the nt they were through the Door. The sed was a gde in Narnia, the faces of Dwarfs as, the deep eyes of Asn, and the white patches on the Badgers cheeks. But the third (which rapidly swallowed up the
other two) was the grey, graelly surface of a ptforin a try station, and a seat with luggage round it, where they were all sitting as if they had neer ed froit - a little ft and dreary for a nt after all they; had been through, but also, uedly, ni its own way, what with the faliar railway sll and the English sky and the suer terbefore the
quot;Well!quot; said Peter. quot;We hae had a ti.”
quot;Bother!quot; said Ednd. quot;Ie left or Narnia.”
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