Chapter 10 Summary

"The Earth with its Starkness" As Chuck's thoughts, memories and dreams simultaneously fragment and blend together, highlighting images of unicorns, light, Gedder's gun, and a fight on the edge of a cliff, Charles Wallace remains Within. At one point, a silvery voice calls him to come out, saying that Gaudior has been drained by his attempts to help Chuck heal from the attack by Mortmain, and that he (the speaker) is the voice of the newly hatched unicorn (Chapter 8). But Charles Wallace mistrusts the voice, and chooses to stay Within. Kything with him, Meg senses that the voice was in fact an Echtrhroi, attempting a new way of trying to manipulate Charles Wallace.

Chuck's consciousness and awareness improve, but his mind is fragmented, shifting between his own reality, that of Bran/Matthew/Zillah (in which he insists that Gedder cannot marry Gwen) and...