“Of course,” said the girl. “It‘s you we’ve come to help.” Tirian got to his feet and led them rapidly down hill, outhward and away from the stable. He knew well where e meant to go but his first aim was to get to rocky places here they would leave no trail, and his second to cross ome water so that they would leave no scent.
This took them about an hour‘s scrambling and wading nd while that was going on nobody had any breath to alk. But even so, Tirian kept on stealing glances at his ompanions. The wonder of walking beside the creatures om another world made him feel a little dizzy: but it also ade all the old stories seem far more real than they had ver seemed before . . . anything might happen now.
“Now,” said Tirian as they came to the head of a little alley which ran down before them among young birch ees, “we are out of danger of those villains for a space and ay walk more easily.” The sun had risen, dewdrops were winkling on every branch, and birds were singing.
“What about some grub? .I mean for you, Sir, we two ave had our breakfast,” said the Boy.