C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series ends with many of the characters in the country of Aslan the Lion, where they find they can run as fast as a horse without being tired, reunite with friends, and eat fruit that makes the juiciest peach in our world seem like wood. Aslan observes, “You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be.” Lucy said, “We’re so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.” “No fear of that,” said Aslan. “Have you not guessed?” Their hearts leaped and a wild hope rose within them. “There was a real railway accident,”
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