Just as Eustace reached the edge of the pool two things happened.
First of all, it came over him like a thunder-clap [that he had been running on all fours]
—and why on earth had he been doing that?
And secondly, as he bent toward the water, he thought for a second that yet another dragon was staring up at him
out of the pool. But in an instant he realized the truth.
The dragon face in the pool was his own reflection.
There was no doubt of it. It moved as he moved: it opened and shut its mouth as he opened and shut his.
He had turned into a dragon /while he was asleep.
Sleeping on a dragon’s hoard /with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Compiled in A Year with Aslan
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Copyright © 1952 by C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1980 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia. Copyright © 2010 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Extracts taken from The Chronicles of Narnia. Copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. 1950-1956. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.