The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Describe Edmund's encounter with the stone statue of the lion.
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In Chapter Nine, as the moon rises, Edmund sees the home of the White Witch, noticing its many towers. He is filled with a sense of fear, but thinks that it is too late to turn back. The great iron gates stand wide open before him. Edmund focuses on his hatred for Peter to gain courage, and enters a courtyard, where he sees a lion and a dwarf. Slowly, he realizes that the creatures are made of stone, and that the courtyard is filled with similar statues. Thinking that the lion is Aslan, he takes a pencil and draws a moustache and spectacles on it. He mocks it in a childish way, though "the face of the great stone beast still looked so terrible, and sad, and noble."
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