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第376章 The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe(156)

The children did not see the actual moment of the killing. They couldn’t bear to look and had covered their eyes.

Deeper Magic From Before The Dawn Of TimeWhile the two girls still crouched in the bushes with their hands over their faces, they heard the voice of the Witch calling out,“Now! Follow me all and we will set about what remains of this war! It will not take us long to crush the human vermin and the traitors now that the great Fool, the great Cat, lies dead.”

At this moment the children were for a few seconds in very great danger. For with wild cries and a noise of skirling pipes and shrill horns blowing, the whole of that vile rabble came sweeping off the hill.top and down the slope right past their hiding.place. They felt the Spectres go by them like a cold wind and they felt the ground shake beneath them under the galloping feet of the Minotaurs; and overhead there went a flurry of foul wings and a blackness of vultures and giant bats. At any other time they would have trembled with fear; but now the sadness and shame and horror of Aslan‘s death so filled their minds that they hardly thought of it.