CHAPTER THIRTEEN

    DEEP MAGIC FROM tIME  quot;Yes! and ; said tch scornfully.

    quot;t; said t;er do  once.”

    quot;I o  done on tone table itself,quot; said tc;t is t is w has always been done before.”

    quot;It ime noone table can again be put to its  proper use,”

    said the dwarf.

    quot;true,quot; said tc;ell, I will begin.”

    At t moment o them.

    quot;I  tone table, ain, Maugrim. I  all. One of the  Sons of Adam killed him. Fly! Fly!”

    quot;No,quot; said tc;to meet me  ts and ts of trees res, and toadstools.

    e ill my  turn  into stone even as ttle to finish here while  you are away.”

    t brute bos urned, and galloped away.

    quot;No; s; me see. e ter put it  against trunk of a tree.”

    Edmund found o . t   a tree and bound . cake off er  mantle.  and terribly e   see muc rees.

    quot;Prepare tim,quot;, said tc at took Edmunds  o raise er t Edmund range noise -  it  he sound  of a knife being sharpened.

    At t very moment s from every direction - a drumming  of ing of cied. Strong arms  eady now - youll  be all rige.”

    t talking to  to one  anot; tc; quot;I t you ; quot;I didnt see er I knocked t of er to say s; quot;- A c mind everyt once - ? Os only an old stump!quot; But just at t Edmund  off in a dead faint.

    Presently taurs and unicorns and deer and birds (ty  cer) all set off to go back to  tone table, carrying Edmund  if t  valley after t have been surprised.

    It ly still and presently t; if you  sree-stump and on a fairsized  boulder. But if you o t botump and t you  tump did look really remarkably like a little fat man crouccump o  t up and begin talking to tump; for in reality tump and tc  of  s t, and so  do so at t oo.

    morning (t t t into camp late last nig  t moment ed4 t out, and toget from t of t. to tell you (and no one ever  Aslan  it  ion urned to meet th him.

    quot;; ;and - to talk to  .”

    Edmund so eacurn, quot;Im sorry,quot; and everyone said, quot;ts all rig; And ted  very o say somet quite clear t tural -and of course no one could to say. But before time to feel really a;Sire, the enemy who craves audience.”

    quot;Let ; said Aslan.

    t aurned leading tchs dwarf.

    quot; is your message, Son of Eart; asked Aslan.

    quot;t  to come and speak ; said t;on a matter age as to hers.”

    quot;Queen of Narnia, indeed!quot; said Mr Beaver. quot;Of all the cheek -”

    quot;Peace, Beaver,quot; said Aslan. quot;All names ored to time  dispute about tell your mistress, Son of  Eart I grant  on condition t s  t great oak.”

    to and t back o see t  tions . quot;But supposing surns to  stone?”

    er. I to t any rate, as tanding up on tails ling - like a cats range dog.

    quot;Itll be all rig; ; send t .”

    A fees later tc on to top of traigood before Aslan. t seen  her before

    felt s t of . t  e at tc  to see te face so close toget t tcly  in icularly noticed this.

    quot;You raitor t; said tc kne s Edmund. But Edmund  past t er all  er talk  morning.   on looking  at Aslan. It didnt seem to matter ch said.

    quot;ell,quot; said Aslan. quot; against you.”

    quot;ten t; asked tch.

    quot;Let us say I ten it,quot; ans;tell us of this  Deep Magic.”

    quot;tell you?quot; said tc;tell you  ten on t very table of Stone ell you ten in letters deep as a spear is long on tones on t ell you re of t least kno into Narnia at t every traitor  belongs to me as my la for every treac to a kill.”

    quot;O; said Mr Beaver. quot;So ts o imagine yourself a queen -  because you he Emperors hangman. I see.”

    quot;Peace, Beaver,quot; said Aslan, ;And so,quot; continued tc;t ure is mine.  to me. y.”

    quot;Come and take it t; said t  bellowing voice.

    quot;Fool,quot; said tc  a snarl, quot;do you  really ter can rob me of my rigter t.  unless I urned and periser.”

    quot;It is very true,quot; said Aslan, quot;I do not deny it.”

    quot;O;  , will you?

    Cant  t t it?”

    quot;ork against t; said Aslan, turning to  suggestion to him again.

    Edmund ime at Aslans  face.  a c to say somet a moment  later  t  expected to do anyt to , and do w old.

    quot;Fall back, all of you,quot; said Aslan, quot;and I alk to tch alone.”

    t errible time ting and ly toget;O;  and began to cry. Peter stood o t at tant  sea. tood aurs  stamped uneasily  everyone became perfectly still in t  you noticed even small sounds like a bumble-bee flying past, or t doling till talk bete itc on.

    At last t;You can all come back,quot; ;I tled tter. S; And all over  talk.

    tc turning aopped and said,  quot;But ?”

    quot;; roared Aslan,   moutcer staring  for a moment , picked up s and fairly ran for her life.