“You don't need to put me to bed tonight, Mom,” I said. “I'll read on my own till I get sleepy.”
“Really?” She nodded, impressed. She squeezed my hand and gave it a kiss.
“Okay then, goodnight, love. Have sweet dreams.” “You too.” She turned on the little reading light beside the bed.
“I’ll write you letters,” I said as she was leaving. “Even though I’ll probably be home before you guys even get them.”
“Then we can read them together,” she said, and threw me a kiss.
When she left my room, I took my copy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe off the night table and started reading until I fell asleep.
Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know.
Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time.
But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned,
she would have read there a different incantation.
Daybreak
The next day I woke up really early. It was still dark inside my room and even darker outside, though I knew it would be morning soon.
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