The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the wardrobe. Lucy guides them to Tumnus's cave, but they find it ransacked, with a notice from Jadis (the White Witch) proclaiming his arrest for harbouring humans. Mr. Beaver, a talking animal, finds and befriends the children, and takes them to his den. There, he and Mrs. Beaver tell them of a prophecy that the Witch's power will fail when two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve sit in the four thrones at Cair Paravel. Aslan, the great lion and the rightful King, has been absent for many years but is now "on the move again" in Narnia.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and coats back into the wardrobe in the Professor's house and suddenly become children again, dressed in their old clothes. Almost no time has passed in the real world, despite their many years in Narnia. The four children consult the Professor, who immediately believes them, and hints that theirs would prove not to be the first adventure in Narnia, nor by any means the last. The Pevensie Siblings Raised in London, evacuated to the Dorset countryside, and reaching adulthood in Narnia, they are the four main characters. In one chapter, Father Christmas arrives to endow those present (three Pevensies and