Nimueh whispers an incantation and the cut on her palm closes itself.
Jadis opens her eyes.
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The last thing Nimueh remembered before she died was a roll of thunder and a flash of light, a young boy's revenge echoing in her ear.
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He is a powerful boy, Nimueh explains. He has a great destiny. She had sought to make him his, make him theirs, but she failed. His will is strong, and his heart too bound to the mortal world.
Jadis laughs. "These boys and their destinies. They'll be the death of us, my lady. Trust them not, nor their hearts."
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Nimueh was betrayed by a sorcerer, one of their own; Jadis was betrayed by a king. "And oh, to be betrayed by a king," she crows. "There are worse betrayals. I do not regret my death. Everything happens in its own time, after all."
"Sister, what shall we do first?" the White Witch asks.
"First we drink," says Nimueh, "to us. To the ones they thought they could cast aside."
After all, they are both here, now. They had both been returned to the earth, but now the earth returns them to the world.
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Nimueh whispers an incantation and the cut on her palm closes itself.
Jadis opens her eyes.
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The last thing Nimueh remembered before she died was a roll of thunder and a flash of light, a young boy's revenge echoing in her ear.
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He is a powerful boy, Nimueh explains. He has a great destiny. She had sought to make him his, make him theirs, but she failed. His will is strong, and his heart too bound to the mortal world.
Jadis laughs. "These boys and their destinies. They'll be the death of us, my lady. Trust them not, nor their hearts."
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Nimueh was betrayed by a sorcerer, one of their own; Jadis was betrayed by a king. "And oh, to be betrayed by a king," she crows. "There are worse betrayals. I do not regret my death. Everything happens in its own time, after all."
"Sister, what shall we do first?" the White Witch asks.
"First we drink," says Nimueh, "to us. To the ones they thought they could cast aside."
After all, they are both here, now. They had both been returned to the earth, but now the earth returns them to the world.