[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had commit…

C. S. Lewis
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[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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