Children across the county stop in their tracks, crawl out of the street perhaps or out of a doorway, and tumble down to sleep. Birds stagger to the trees and utility poles from the sky. The sun grows sleepy, too; it bobs towards the horizon, fights to hold on, it is early evening and it is not yet time for it to set \u2014<\/p>\n
The wolf\u2019s lullaby drones on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll get out,\u201d whispers the wolf to Edmund\u2019s sleeping form. He hears it, even through his doze. \u201cI\u2019ll get out, and I\u2019ll kill everyone, like I told your father, like I told your father\u2019s father, and his mum. And you will be part of me, if you wish it; or perhaps I shall offer you no choice; and you shall know the forever and my insides.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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