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The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

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"You see, " said Aslan. "<strong>The</strong>y will not let us help them. <strong>The</strong>y have chosen cunn<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>in</strong>stead <strong>of</strong> belief. <strong>The</strong>ir prison is only <strong>in</strong> their own m<strong>in</strong>ds, yet they are <strong>in</strong> that prison; and<br />

so afraid <strong>of</strong> be<strong>in</strong>g taken <strong>in</strong> that they cannot be taken out. But come, children. I have other<br />

work to do."<br />

He went to the Door and they all followed him. He raised his head and roared, "Now it is<br />

time!" then louder, "Time!"; then so loud that it could have shaken the stars, "TIME."<br />

<strong>The</strong> Door flew open.<br />

CHAPTER FOURTEEN<br />

NIGHT FALLS ON NARNIA<br />

THEY all stood beside Aslan, on his right side, and looked through the open doorway.<br />

<strong>The</strong> bonfire had gone out. On the earth all was blackness: <strong>in</strong> fact you could not have told<br />

that you were look<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>to a wood if you had not seen where the dark shapes <strong>of</strong> the trees<br />

ended and the stars began. But when Aslan had roared yet aga<strong>in</strong>, out on their left they<br />

saw another black shape. That is, they saw another patch where there were no stars: and<br />

the patch rose up higher and higher and became the shape <strong>of</strong> a man, the hugest <strong>of</strong> all<br />

giants. <strong>The</strong>y all knew <strong>Narnia</strong> well enough to work out where he must be stand<strong>in</strong>g. He<br />

must be on the high moorlands that stretch away to the North beyond the River Shribble.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n Jill and Eustace remembered how once long ago, <strong>in</strong> the deep caves beneath those<br />

moors, they had seen a great giant asleep and been told that his name was Father Time,<br />

and that he would wake on the day the world ended.<br />

"Yes," said Aslan, though they had not spoken. "While he lay dream<strong>in</strong>g his name was<br />

Time. Now that he is awake he will have a new one."<br />

<strong>The</strong>n the great giant raised a horn to his mouth. <strong>The</strong>y could see this by the change <strong>of</strong> the<br />

black shape he made aga<strong>in</strong>st the stars. After that - quite a bit later, because sound travels<br />

so slowly - they heard the sound <strong>of</strong> the horn: high and terrible, yet <strong>of</strong> a strange, deadly<br />

beauty.<br />

Immediately the sky became full <strong>of</strong> shoot<strong>in</strong>g stars. Even one shoot<strong>in</strong>g star is a f<strong>in</strong>e th<strong>in</strong>g<br />

to see; but these were dozens, and then scores, and then hundreds, till it was like silver<br />

ra<strong>in</strong>: and it went on and on. And when it had gone on for some while, one or two <strong>of</strong> them<br />

began to th<strong>in</strong>k that there was another dark shape aga<strong>in</strong>st the sky as well as the giant's. It<br />

was <strong>in</strong> a different place, right overhead, up <strong>in</strong> the very ro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> the sky as you might call it.<br />

"Perhaps it is a cloud," thought Edmund. At any rate, there were no stars there: just<br />

blackness. But all around, the downpour <strong>of</strong> stars went on. And then the starless patch

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