Chapter 4 Summary

"The Snow with its Whiteness" The journey of Gaudior and Charles Wallace through joy and harmony is interrupted by an attack of the Echthroi, who bring with them a horrible stench and blow them into what Gaudior says is a Projection, a dark vision of a possible future that the Echthroi would like to make real. Because Gaudior says that to take any action within a Projection might make the Projection into a reality, Charles Wallace at first feels he has no other option but to wait in stillness as a horrible monster (apparently some kind of mutated human) approaches. In sudden fear, however, Charles Wallace cries out part of Mrs. O'Keefe's rune. Snow begins to fall, and Gaudior and Charles Wallace are able to fly to the next When, where Charles Wallace goes into a young man called Madoc. He (Charles Wallace...