Description
It is first so named by Polly Plummer, who arrives there when Digory Kirke's Uncle Andrew tricks her into touching and taking a magic yellow ring, which instantaneously transports her into the wood. She falls asleep, and when Digory arrives later the children are both disoriented and at first they aren’t sure how long they have been there or even who they are. This state of lassitude that both children fall into is explained as the result of the Wood being a place where nothing ever happens, unlike the different worlds it connects (where events do occur). Later, Empress Jadis of Charn is brought to the wood and appears to fall ill because of it, weakening so that the children are stronger than she. After leaving the wood between the worlds, Jadis soon recovers but never mentions the Wood. Digory speculates that her mind is unable to hold memories of the Wood.
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