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CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE LION ROARS

WHEN the whole party was finally awake Lucy had to tell her story for the fourth ti as anything could be

"I can&039;t see anything," said Peter after he had stared his eyes sore "Can you, Susan?"

"No, of course I can&039;t," snapped Susan "Because there isn&039;t anything to see She&039;s been dreao to sleep, Lucy"

"And I do hope," said Lucy in a tremulous voice, "that you will all coo with him whether anyone else does or not"

"Don&039;t talk nonsense, Lucy," said Susan "Of course you can&039;t go off on your own Don&039;t let her, Peter She&039;s being downright naughty"

"I&039;ll go with her, if she ht before"

"I know she has," said Peter "And she oing down the gorge Still - at this hour of the night And why should Aslan be invisible to us? He never used to be It&039;s not like hi at all," answered the Dwarf "If you all go, of course, I&039;ll go with you; and if your party splits up, I&039;ll go with the High King That&039;sCaspian But, if you ask my private opinion, I&039;m a plain dho doesn&039;t think there&039;s ht where you couldn&039;t find one by day And I have no use forlions and don&039;t talk, and friendly lions though they don&039;t do us any good, and whopping big lions though nobody can see thee and beanstalks as far as I can see"

"He&039;s beating his paw on the ground for us to hurry," said Lucy "We o now At least I ht to try to force the rest of us like that It&039;s four to one and you&039;re the youngest," said Susan

"Oh, coo There&039;ll be no peace till we do" He fully intended to back Lucy up, but he was annoyed at losing his night&039;s sleep and wasas sulkily as possible

"On thehis ar his hel nice to Lucy, as his favourite sister, for he kneretched she , and he knew that, whatever had happened, it was not her fault But he couldn&039;t help being a little annoyed with her all the sa I started behaving like Lucy," she said "I ht threaten to stay here whether the rest of you went on or not I jolly well think I shall"

"Obey the High King, your Majesty," said Trumpkin, "and let&039;s be off If I&039;m not to be allowed to sleep, I&039;d as soon "

And so at last they got on thenot to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan He turned and walked at a slow pace about thirty yards ahead of theuide them, for Aslan was not only invisible to the cat-like paws rass

He led the trees - whether they were still dancing nobody knew, for Lucy had her eyes on the Lion and the rest had their eyes on Lucy - and nearer the edge of the gorge "Cobbles and kettledru to end in away Aslan went along the top of the precipices Then they cae He turned and disappeared a theed over the cliff; but she was too busy keeping hiht to stop and think about this She quickened her pace and was soon a down, she could see a steep and narrow path going slantwise down into the gorge between rocks, and Aslan descending it He turned and looked at her with his happy eyes Lucy clapped her hands and began to scramble down after hi, "Hi! Lucy! Look out, for goodness&039; sake You&039;re right on the edge of the gorge Come back - "and then, a ht There is a way down"

Half-way down the path Edreat excite down in front of us?"

"It&039;s his shadow," said Lucy

"I do believe you&039;re right, Lu," said Edmund "I can&039;t think how I didn&039;t see it before But where is he?"

"With his shadow, of course Can&039;t you see hiht I did - for a ht"

"Get on, King Edet on," came Trumpkin&039;s voice from behind and above: and then, farther behind and still nearly at the top, Peter&039;s voice saying, "Oh, buck up, Susan Give rousing"

In a fewof water filled their ears Treading delicately, like a cat, Aslan stepped from stone to stone across the stream In the middle he stopped, bent down to drink, and as he raised his shaggy head, dripping froain This ti forward But the Lion whisked round and began padding up the slope on the far side of the Rush

"Peter, Peter," cried Ed," said Peter "But it&039;s so tricky in this h, and three cheers for Lucy I don&039;t feel half so tired now, either"

Aslan without hesitation led thee The whole journey was odd and drea cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing Beast ahead Everyone except Susan and the Dwarf could see him now

Presently they came to another steep path, up the face of the farther precipices These were far higher than the ones they had just descended, and the journey up the Fortunately the Moon shone right above the gorge so that neither side was in shadow

Lucy was nearly blohen the tail and hind legs of Aslan disappeared over the top: but with one last effort she scraed and breathless, on the hill they had been trying to reach ever since they left Glasswater The long gentle slope (heather and grass and a few very big rocks that shone white in the limmer of trees about half a mile away She knew it It was the hill of the Stone Table:

With a jingling of lided on before them and they walked after him

"Lucy," said Susan in a very small voice

"Yes?" said Lucy

"I see hiht"