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wilderness." Following is the unicorn's profound,
eternal message:
Behold, I am free, I am not enveloped within
this darkness. Behold, I am the everlasting
light, the Eternity that stretches forward for
ever, utterly opposite of that darkness which
departs backward, backward for ever. Come
over to me, to the light, to the light that
streams into the glorious eternity. For now the
darkness is revoked for ever.
Indeed, the voice of the unicorn has the uncanny
power to dispel the darkness. In Dragons of Autumn
Twilight (2003), Margaret Weis describes it in this
way:
Even as the deep voice spoke, the darkness
parted. A gasp of awe, gentle as a spring
wind, swept the company as they stared before
them. Silver moonlight shone brightly on a
high rock ledge. Standing on the ledge was
a unicorn. She regarded them coolly, her
intelligent eyes gleaming with infinite wisdom.
Like Lawrence, C. S. Lewis described the joyful cry
of the unicorn -- bree-hee-hee -- and summed up its
eternal message:
I have come home at last! This is my real
country! I belong here. This is the land I have
been looking for all my life, though I never
knew it till now. . . . Bree-hee-hee! Come
further up, come further in! (The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Last Battle, 1956).