The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

his clothes on. In the end it revived him. He awoke from his faint. What a wake it was!
But we must leave him to think over his wicked deed (if he was likely to do anything so
sensible) and turn to more important things.
Strawberry trotted on with Digory on his back till the noise of the other animals died
away, and now the little group of Aslan and his chosen councillors was quite close.
Digory knew that he couldn't possibly break in on so solemn a meeting, but there was no
need to do so. At a word from Aslan, the He-Elephant, the Ravens, and all the rest of
them drew aside. Digory slipped off the horse and found himself face to face with Aslan.
And Aslan was bigger and more beautiful and more brightly golden and more terrible
than he had thought. He dared not look into the great eyes.
"Please - Mr Lion - Aslan - Sir," said Digory, "could you - may I - please, will you give
me some magic fruit of this country to make Mother well?"
He had been desperately hoping that the Lion would say "Yes"; he had been horribly
afraid it might say "No". But he was taken aback when it did neither.
"This is the Boy," said Aslan, looking, not at Digory, but at his councillors. "This is the
Boy who did it."
"Oh dear," thought Digory, "what have I done now?"
"Son of Adam," said the Lion. "There is an evil Witch abroad in my new land of Narnia.
Tell these good Beasts how she came here."
A dozen different things that he might say flashed through Digory's mind, but he had the
sense to say nothing except the exact truth.
"I brought her, Aslan," he answered in a low voice.
"For what purpose?"
"I wanted to get her out of my own world back into her own. I thought I was taking her
back to her own place."
"How came she to be in your world, Son of Adam?"
"By - by Magic."
The Lion said nothing and Digory knew that he had not told enough.
"It was my Uncle, Aslan," he said. "He sent us out of our own world by magic rings, at
least I had to go because he sent Polly first, and then we met the Witch in a place called
Charn and she just held on to us when -"