Today's Reading
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