“They say Aslan is on the move,” the rumor continues to creep, trading dominance back and forth with the frost, throughout Narnia, through three more Christmases, three small springs. Just before the fourth Christmas, they win Edmund back in a brief and bloody skirmish near the Witch’s castle, and the True Narnia Army crowns the four siblings on the spot, never mind that all the Pevensies are broken, desolate children. They don’t have to be glorious, the centaurs say - they just have to get to Cair Paravel and seat four of Adam’s blood.