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Then Augray tells him to give the watch to a pfiffltriggi. He leaves and Ransom embarks the boat. The hrossa’s role at Meldilorn is to ferry boats. The island is full of eldila and even Ransom can sense something. By Malacandran standards, it’s warm (September earth day). He walks up the hill of the island. He’s a little on edge because he’s seeing eldila, but not exactly seeing them.

A gong and mallet! Augray strikes the gong which floods Ransom with excitement. He studies metal etchings that remind him of prehistoric drawings and Norse or Celtic jewelry. It seems to tell a story. A hross paddles a boat to them and Augray introduces Ransom from Thulcandra. The hross is not surprised. As Oyarsa has not called for Augray, Ransom offers him his watch. Augray wonders humans can’t use nature’s clock.

Has definitely picked up more, and am enjoying more in this area of the book.

I’ve found that I don’t really like reading a lot about the setting and landscape, not too much more than necessary.

But I really enjoy learning about the characters and their developments and descriptions.

The dialogues are what I find the most interesting by far.

It’s quite impressive how CS Lewis balances the perspective and story telling narrative of Ransom. At some points it’s as if he is telling the story to us (therefore using past tense ) and sometimes we are absorbed/sucked into the story and so therefore he begins to speak to us in the present tense.

You can really see CS Lewis and his love for writing in this book so far. The words that are used feel slightly similar to 18th century vocabulary. And so I do get a bit of a headache reading it from having to focus. Otherwise it is very intriguing !