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第1493章 The Last Battle(70)

For a time they could go straight towards the Spear.Head but presently they came to a dense thicket so that they had to go out of their course to get round it. And after that.for they were still overshadowed by branches.it was hard to pick up their bearings. It was Jill who set them right again: she had been an excellent Guide in England. And of course she knew her Narnian stars perfectly, having travelled so much in the wild Northern Lands, and could work out the direction from other stars even when the Spear.Head was hidden.

As soon as Tirian saw that she was the best pathfinder of the three of them he put her in front. And then he was astonished to find how silently and almost invisibly she glided on before them.

“By the Mane!” he whispered to Eustace. “This girl is a ondrous wood.maid. If she had Dryad’s blood in her she ould scarce do it better.”

“She‘s so small, that’s what helps,” whispered Eustace. But ll from in front said: “S.s.s.h, less noise.”