At last she drew near. She stood by Aslan’s head. Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad. Then, just before she gave the blow, she stooped down and said in a quivering voice,
“And now, who has won? Fool, did you think that by all this you would save the human traitor? Now I will kill you instead of him as our pact was and so the Deep Magic will be appeased. But when you are dead what will prevent me from killing him as well? And who will take him out of my hand then? Understand that you have given me Narnia forever, you have lost your own life and you have not saved his. In that knowledge, despair and die.”
The children did not see the actual moment of the killing. They couldn’t bear to look and had covered their eyes.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, “The Triumph of the Witch”
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1 lonelypilgrim // Mar 21, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Fear not Daughters of Eve for Sunday is coming.
Of course, Lucy and Susan don’t know that at the time. Neither did the disciples in the time between the crucifixion and the resurrection. If I can hawk my own blog for a moment I wrote about that briefly today, what was it like for the disciples during that time.
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