Four Signs
Also known as the signs, Aslan’s signs, Aslan's signs
Four instructions Aslan gives Jill for finding Rilian. Much of the quest turns on remembering, recognizing, misunderstanding, and finally acting on these signs.
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In the chronicles
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The Silver Chair4 cited passages⌄
- Chapter II · paragraph 46
…you think. But the first step is to remember. Repeat to me, in order, the four signs."
Open passage → - Chapter III · paragraph 77
…rstand this. Then Jill told him about her conversation with Aslan and the four signs and the task of finding the lost prince which had been laid upon them.
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 63
…'t know what a giant's idea of being "gentle" might be, and that, anyway, Aslan's signs had said nothing about staying with giants, gentle or otherwise. The children, on the other hand, who were sick…
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 39
…fault, not ours. So likely, isn't it? No. We must just own up. We've only four signs to go by, and we've muffed the first three."
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