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It blinked and peered as if it were short-sighted,and put its head a little on one side,and said in a soft,hooting kind of voice:
“Tu-whoo,tu-whoo ! Who are you two ?”
“My name’s Scrubb,and this is Pole,”said Eustace. “Would you mind telling us where we are ?”
“In the land of Narnia,at the King’s castle of Cair Paravel.”
“Is that the King who’s just taken ship ?”
“Too true,too true,”said the Owl sadly,shaking its big head. “But who are you ? There’s something magic about you two. I saw you arrive:you flew. Everyone else was so busy seeing the King off that nobody knew. Except me. I happened to notice you, you flew.”
“We were sent here by Aslan,”said Eustace in a low voice.
“Tu-whoo,tu-whoo !”said the Owl,ruffling out its feathers. “This is almost too much for me,so early in the evening. I’m not quite myself till the sun’s down.”
“And we’ve been sent to find the lost Prince,”said Jill,who had been anxiously waiting to get into the conversation.
“It’s the first I’ve heard about it,”said Eustace. “What prince ?”