PG 20-22 – Mr. Beaver, Mrs. Beaver, Unicorn, Centaur

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MR. BEAVER: The broken dam will just have to wait.

MRS. BEAVER: Yes. This other business is much more important. (Looking offstage.) Look, there's the Unicorn. We will tell him.

MR. BEAVER: Mr. Unicorn. Over here if you will.

(UNICORN enters.)

UNICORN: Oh, good. It's you. I was afraid it was that awful Ferris Ulf.

MR. BEAVER: He left some time ago.

MRS. BEAVER: Dragging the unfortunate Mr. Tumnus with him.

UNICORN: How do you know?

MR. BEAVER: They passed right by us. We hid behind the dam.

MRS. BEAVER: Fenris Ulf didn't see us, but Mr. Tumnus did. And he dropped this so we would find it. (She holds up Lucy's handkerchief.)

UNICORN: What is it?

MR. BEAVER: (taking the handkerchief from MRS. BEAVER). We're not sure, but we believe it belongs to a human.

MRS. BEAVER: It has the smell of a Daughter of Eve.

UNICORN: You think that a human has been here?

MR. BEAVER: Yes, and that Tumnus let her go. That's why he was in such trouble with Fenris Ulf.

UNICORN: So where is this human now – if there was one?

MRS. BEAVER: Who knows?

UNICORN: If she's smart, she left Narnia the minute she had the chance. Never to return.

MR. BEAVER: Or to return with others.

UNICORN: Others? You mean humans?

MRS. BEAVER: Perhaps. Remember the prophesy?

UNICORN: (thinking out loud). Two Sons of Adam – and two Daughters of Eve. Is it possible?