“You needn’t， you needn‘t，” said the little voices. “What else could we do？ We don’t want any other King. We‘re your people. If it was only the Ape and the Calormenes who were against you we would have fought till we were cut intoieces before we’d have let them tie you up. We would， we ould indeed. But we can‘t go against Aslan.”
“Do you think it really is Aslan？” asked the King.
“Oh yes， yes，” said the Rabbit. “He came out of the stable st night. We all saw him.”
“What was he like？” said the King.
“Like a terrible， great Lion， to be sure，” said one of the ice.
“And you think it is really Aslan who is killing the ood.Nymphs and making you all slaves to the King of alormen？”
“Ah， that’s bad， isn‘t it？” said the second Mouse. “It would ave been better if we’d died before all this began. But here‘s no doubt about it. Everyone says it is Aslan’s orders. nd we‘ve seen him. We didn’t think Aslan would be like hat. Why， we.we wanted him to come back to Narnia.” “He seems to have come back very angry this time，” aid the first Mouse. “We must all have done something readfully wrong without knowing it. He must be punishing s for something. But I do think we might be told what it as！”