Chapter Eight Summary

Something is moving in the shadow of the trees, gliding slowly. At first, it looks like smoke, but it is grey. The smell was not of smoke. It has the shape of a man and the head of a bird with a cruel, curved beak. The grass seemed to wither beneath it.

Puzzle gave a screaming break and ran into the tower. Jill hid her face in her hands to shut out the sight of it. It then streamed away and disappeared and the sun returned and everyone started to breathe again.

Eustace asks what it was and Tirian said he only saw it once before, but that it was carved in stone with a gold overlay and solid diamonds as eyes. At the time, it was in the great temple of the Tash where the statue was carved above the...