FAREWELL TO SHADOWLANDS IF one could run without getting tired, I dont think one would often want to do anything else. But there might be special reasons for stopping, and it ecial reason which made Eustace presently shout: "I say! Steady! Look what were ing to!」
And well he might. For now they saw before them Caldron Pool and beyond the Pool the high unclimbable cliffs and, p down the cliffs, thousands of tons of water every sed, flashing like diamonds in some places and dark, glassy green in others, the Great Waterfall; and already the thunder of it was in their ears.
"Dont stop! Further up and further in," called Farsight, tilting his flight a little upwards.
"Its all very well for him," said Eustace, but Jewel also cried out: "Dont stop. Further up and further in! Take it in your stride.」
His voice could only just be heard above the roar of the water but moment everyone saw that he had plunged into the Pool. Aer-skelter behind him, with splash after splash, all the others did the same. The water was not biting cold as all of them (and especially Puzzle) expected, but of a delicious foamy ess. They all found they were swimming straight for the Waterfall itself.
"This is absolutely crazy," said Eustaund.
"I know. A -" said Edmund.
"Isnt it wonderful?" said Lucy. "Have you noticed one t feel afraid, even if one wants to? Try it.」
"By Jove, her one ," said Eustace after he had tried.
Jewel reached the foot of the Waterfall first, but Tirian was only just behind him. Jill was last, so she could see the whole thier thahers. She saw something white moving steadily up the face of the Waterfall. That white thing was the Uni. You couldnt tell whether he was swimming or climbing, but he moved on, higher and higher.
The point of his horn divided the water just above his head, and it cascaded out in two rainbow-coloured streams all round his shoulders. Just behind him came King Tirian. He moved his legs and arms as if he were swimming but he moved straight upwards: as if one could swim up the wall of a house.
What looked fu was the Dogs. During the gallop they had not been at all out of breath, but now, as they swarmed and wriggled upwards, there lenty of spluttering and sneezing among them; that was because they would keep on barking, and every time they barked they got their mouths and noses full of water. But before Jill had time to notice all these things fully, she was going up the Waterfall herself. It was the sort of thing that would have been quite impossible in our world. Even if you hadnt been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against the tless jags of rock. But in that world you could do it. You went on, up and up, with all kinds of reflected lights flashing at you from the water and all manner of coloured stones flashing through it, till it seemed as if you were climbing up light itself - and always higher and higher till the sense of height would have terrified you if you could be terrified, but later it was only gloriously exg. And then at last one came to the lovely, smooth green curve in which the water poured over the top and found that one was out on the level river above the Waterfall. The current was rag away behind you,
but you were such a wonderful swimmer that you could make headway against it. Soon they were all on the bank, dripping buthappy.
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