As the children and Jadis leave the crumbling castle, the children realize that Jadis is evil. Despite Polly’s protests, Digory strikes the bell which both shakes the castle and wakes Queen Jadis. While exploring the abandoned castle in this new land, the children discover a series of waxworks of the past rulers of Charn as well as a bell with a hammer. Digory and Polly decide to explore one of the pools and arrive at a desolate city called Charn. The two children discover many pools of water in the wood that allow people to enter different worlds. The yellow ring transports Digory to a wood where he finds Polly. Fearing for Polly’s safety, Digory touches another yellow ring (while taking two green ones with him) to bring Polly home. Uncle Andrew believes that the yellow rings carry people to other worlds, and the green rings carry people back to this world. Uncle Andrew then explains to the horrified Digory that the rings are a device to travel between worlds. Uncle Andrew tricks Polly into touching a yellow ring which causes her to vanish. One day while attempting to enter an abandoned house through the attic, the two children take a wrong turn and surprise Digory’s mysterious uncle, who spends a great deal of time locked in his study. The two children, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, play together in the attic connecting the row of houses where they live. Two neighborhood children meet and become friends during a summer in London in the late 1800s.
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