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第1540章 The Last Battle(117)

Then they woke up Farsight, who was asleep with his ead under his wing (it made him look as if he had no head t all), and crept forward to the stable. They left Puzzle (not ithout a kind word, for no one was angry with him now) st behind it, telling him not to move till someone came o fetch him, and took up their position at one end of the able.

The bonfire had not been lit for long and was just eginning to blaze up. It was only a few feet away from hem, and the great crowd of Narnian creatures were on the ther side of it, so that Tirian could not at first see them ery well, though of course he saw dozens of eyes shiningwith the reflection of the fire, as you‘ve seen a rabbit’s or cat‘s eyes in the headlights of a car. And just as Tirian took his place, the gong stopped beating and from somewhere on his left three figures appeared. One was Rishda Tarkaan the Calormene Captain. The second was the Ape. He was holding on to the Tarkaan’s hand with one paw and kept whimpering and muttering, “Not so fast, don‘t go so fast, I’m not at all well. Oh my poor head! These midnight meetings are getting too much for me. Apes aren‘t meant to be up at night: It’s not as if I was a rat or a bat.oh my poor head.”