“Maybe She can’t turn you into stone when you’re holding that stone?” suggested Mrs. Beaver doubtfully (but loudly, to cover up Mr. Beaver’s wistful comment that it would be great for cracking clam shells).
“Maybe it’s biblical,” mused Susan half-heartedly, to fill the silence that should have been filled by Edmund’s sarcastic remarks about the rocks rattling around in Peter’s skull.
“Maybe it’s manganese,” muttered Peter, wishing his school gave lessons in chemistry instead of theology — anything that might give him a fighting chance in this war he didn’t want.
“Maybe you should throw it at the Witch,” said Lucy. “Just pretend her magic wand is a cricket bat.”
In the end, it was none of those things. Strictly speaking, it was not even a rock. But in an attempt to light the manganese on fire and start a chemical reaction, Peter accidentally hatched the dragon’s egg. And as it happened, dragonfire was highly effective at melting both ice and witches.
“I got a rock,” says Charlie Brown
“Maybe it’s biblical,” mused Susan half-heartedly, to fill the silence that should have been filled by Edmund’s sarcastic remarks about the rocks rattling around in Peter’s skull.
“Maybe it’s manganese,” muttered Peter, wishing his school gave lessons in chemistry instead of theology — anything that might give him a fighting chance in this war he didn’t want.
“Maybe you should throw it at the Witch,” said Lucy. “Just pretend her magic wand is a cricket bat.”
In the end, it was none of those things. Strictly speaking, it was not even a rock. But in an attempt to light the manganese on fire and start a chemical reaction, Peter accidentally hatched the dragon’s egg. And as it happened, dragonfire was highly effective at melting both ice and witches.