The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

"Then it's true about the Kings and Queens too, and about the White Witch?" said
Caspian.
"Certainly it is true," said Cornelius. "Their reign was the Golden Age in Narnia and the
land has never forgotten them."
"Did they live in this castle, Doctor?"
"Nay, my dear," said the old man. "This castle is a thing of yesterday. Your great-greatgrandfather
built it. But when the two sons of Adam and the two daughters of Eve were
made Kings and Queens of Narnia by Aslan himself, they lived in the castle of Cair
Paravel. No man alive has seen that blessed place and perhaps even the ruins of it have
now vanished. But we believe it was far from here, down at the mouth of the Great River,
on the very shore of the sea."
"Ugh!" said Caspian with a shudder. "Do you mean in the Black Woods? Where all the -
the - you know, the ghosts live?"
"Your Highness speaks as you have been taught," said the Doctor. "But it is all lies.
There are no ghosts there. That is a story invented by the Telmarines. Your Kings are in
deadly fear of the sea because they can never quite forget that in all stories Aslan comes
from over the sea. They don't want to go near it and they don't want anyone else to go
near it. So they have let great woods grow up to cut their people off from the coast. But
because they have quarrelled with the trees they are afraid of the woods. And because
they are afraid of the woods they imagine that they are full of ghosts. And the Kings and
great men, hating both the sea and the wood, partly believe these stories, and partly
encourage them. They feel safer if no one in Narnia dares to go down to the coast and
look out to sea towards Aslan's land and the morning and the eastern end of the world."
There was a deep silence between them for a few minutes. Then Doctor Cornelius said,
"Come. We have been here long enough. It is time to go down and to bed."
"Must we?" said Caspian. "I'd like to go on talking about these things for hours and hours
and hours."
"Someone might begin looking for us, if we did that," said Doctor Cornelius.
CHAPTER FIVE
CASPIAN'S ADVENTURE IN THE MOUNTAINS
AFTER this, Caspian and his Tutor had many more secret conversations on the top of the
Great Tower, and at each conversation Caspian learned more about Old Narnia, so that