[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

"Same?" Jill asked.

Peter said: "Edmund and I were standing on the platform, and we saw your train coming in. I remember thinking to myself: The train turns too fast, and then suddenly - well, I can't even I know how to say it, Edmond, this time you come in is different from last time, isn't it?"

Edmund nodded: "It's not at all like last time, when we were pulled out of our world by magic. But there was a terrible noise, and something hit me with a bang, but it didn't hurt. looking at me. I was amazed--excited. Oh--that was a weird thing. I used to have knee pain from kicking football. And suddenly the pain went away. I felt great Easy. And then—here we are."

"It's very much like our situation in railway carriages," said Lord Digory, with Lucy and Lady Polly nodding.

"From my point of view," Kelly said, "I was on the platform. I saw the train go off the rails and come straight for the platform. I pulled out my wand and tried to spell it to stop. But Just before the collision, I suddenly felt another huge, indescribable magical power erupting in the carriage. Arrived here."

"A train wreck, then," said Eustace. "But why did a train wreck bring us to Narnia?"

No one spoke.Kelly did think of some novels she had read a long time ago - stories about time travel after encountering accidents, including herself, but she didn't think that was applicable to the current situation.From the expressions of the people in front of her, she could tell that they almost regarded Narnia as a sacred place, and they didn't think it would be connected with such a bad thing as a car accident.

"Well, so," asked Edmund, "what do you think happened to us in reality—on the train, I mean? Did our bodies stay there, or... ..."

Everyone guessed that he wanted to say "is he dead", but no one said this guess.Lucy suddenly whispered: "Oh, no!"

"What's the matter, Lou?" Peter asked her. "We're all here, so what if we can't go back to our old world?"

"Susan!" cried Lucy, tearfully, "God, what if Susan thinks we're all . . . by herself!"

"She doesn't talk about Narnia anymore, does she?" said Eustace. "She isn't Narnia's friend any more."

"But she's still my sister," said Peter.Eustace said no more.

There was a moment of silence.Kelly cleared her throat. "I don't think everyone here is dead," she said. "First of all, I'm pretty sure I'm not dead. And second, I can vaguely sense the time in another world—it's It's not relatively flowing. However, there seems to be another world besides this..." She compared the door frame standing abruptly on the grass, "Which one of you knows the world behind this door?"

"The door leads to Narnia," said King Tirian, "and there it appears to be just a door to an ordinary stable..."

He explained the situation in Narnia in a few words.A cunning ape tricks a jackass into putting on a lion's skin and pretending to be Aslan to confuse the residents of Narnia and attract Calormene's army to overthrow Narnia.King Tirian and a few loyal soldiers tried but failed to expose the conspiracy.Under the siege of the Calormene army, they had no choice but to enter the door of the stable, but found that behind the door was not the false god Tash claimed by Calormene, but a whole new world.Peter also told what they had seen and heard: they came here earlier than Kelly, and after arriving here, they met many people who came in through that door—a cat, a young Calormene soldier, and a group of The Dwarfs, then Jill and Eustace, and King Tirian, who was forced in.Strangely enough, the dwarfs seemed unable to see the world, thinking that they were in the stables.

Led by Lucy, they saw the group of dwarfs, who were sitting vigilantly in a circle, as if they were listening to something, obviously everyone was walking towards them in the bright sunlight, but they walked very close, they There was a reaction.

"Watch!" said one of the dwarfs in a rough voice, "watch where you are going. Don't come in our faces."

"Can they really see nothing?" Kelly asked in surprise.She frowned, stretched out her hand and made a light gesture, a bright lantern suddenly appeared in the middle of the circle, but all the dwarfs still sat with their heads down, their expressions blank, and they didn't respond to the sudden light source .She waved away the lantern, drew out her wand, and murmured something, enveloping them for a moment in a bright yellow light.The dwarves still didn't respond, but Kelly felt that some magic power of this world resonated with her faintly.She retracted her wand, adjusted her mind to a state similar to that of communicating with the shadow world, and completely opened her perception of magic—strangely, the perception of magic has long been her habitual action, and it has not been closed for a moment. Li didn't even know when she turned it off.

At this moment, it felt like she had fallen into the ocean of magic.The magic of all the worlds she had experienced was barren compared to this one.This concentration of magic power is almost as if the body has stepped into the Shadow Realm, but the power is many times cleaner and purer than that of the Shadow Realm.If we compare the normal world to a desert and the Shadowland to a polluted river, then this world seems to be soaked in a clear spring, with magical power flowing between every breath, every inch of land and every breath of air. with magic.Kelly could feel that this was a young world—so young that she exposed everything about herself so frankly and simply. She even felt that if she went a little deeper, this world would even reveal the basic magic rules of the universe. in front of her.

But before she could do so, the flow of magic power suddenly changed.If magic had color, then suddenly a golden light appeared behind her, like the rising sun, casting thousands of golden rays of light.Kelly escaped from the magic induction, and found that this was not just a feeling in the magic field: in the real world, there was also a golden light shining behind them.Kelly turned her head along with the others, and saw a huge male lion with golden fur and a long mane fluttering softly, with the most gentle, majestic and sacred expression Kelly had ever seen.Peter, Edmund, Lucy and others walked over without saying a word and knelt beside him silently and quietly.The eight kings and queens finally knelt in a circle around Aslan's feet, and he leaned down and kissed each of them on the cheek.Kelly finally approached, she did not kneel down, but bowed deeply to him: "Aslan."

Aslan kissed her hair solemnly, like her king.Kelly bowed her head in acceptance.It is true that she did not believe in Aslan like the others, nor did she belong to Narnia, but in the face of such a noble and beautiful animal, such a majestic and powerful god, she wanted not to show him the highest Homage is almost impossible.Kelly has never believed in religion—including Christianity, but with her sense of magic and intuition, she can tell at a glance that Aslan is the real God.

Aslan passed her and approached the group of dwarfs.He blew lightly, and exquisite food and wine appeared on everyone's lap.The dwarfs immediately began to eat and drink, but apparently could not taste it, and thought they were eating stable fodder and drinking dirty water from a manger.

"So that's it." Kelly said suddenly, "I understand that the whole world is magical, so what they see is only what they see in their hearts. It's as if the whole world is a super-large—"

She got stuck, because in the spell system she had learned, there was no spell that had a similar effect, which could be used as an analogy, so Kelly changed the phrase, "It seems that this world can give anyone the ability to create illusions , but the illusion they created will return to themselves. So, as long as they believe that they are in a stable, they will only see and hear what is in the stable, right?"

"This statement alone is not correct." Aslan replied in a low voice, "but I know what you think in your heart, and your feelings are correct. You are very sensitive to magic, my child."

This is a universe of pure idealism.If you can try to analyze some of the magic that Kelly currently knows, then this universe can almost overthrow the foundation of materialist philosophy, because the entire world is built on magic—magic rules replace The basic physical theory bears the skeleton of the world. The whole world does not advance layer by layer from quantum to atomic molecule, from microcosm to macrocosm, but is borne by simple to complex layers of magical principles. The theoretical basis for the existence of all things.If you put a physicist in, he would go crazy and collapse; but when Kelly entered this world, she seemed like a fish in water.She has never felt so happy and smooth in communicating magic in her life.

"Come, boys. I have other work to do," said Aslan.He turned and walked towards the door, the others following behind him.Aslan raised his head and cried out, "Now is the time!" Then he shouted even louder, "It is time!" Finally, he let out a roar that shook the world: "It is time!"

The door swung open, almost as if knocked away by his growl.All stood on Aslan's right and saw pure darkness behind the door.The land was so dark that only the keenest eyes could see that there were woods and rocks and things of the world in that darkness.In the darkness, only stars twinkled in the sky, followed by a black shadow slowly rising from the left side of the earth.

The author has something to say: for the sake of the plot, this chapter quotes some dialogues from the original work, and rewrites some of the original descriptions.Its proportion is about 10%.