#cairparavelnet’s May event: Through the Eastern Sea
VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TRADER, CHAPTER SIXTEEN Reepicheep’s voyage into Aslan’s world
No one in that boat doubted that they were seeing beyond the End of the World into Aslan's country.
At that moment, with a crunch, the boat ran aground. The water was too shallow now for it. "This," said Reepicheep, "is where I go on alone."
They did not even try to stop him, for everything now felt as if it had been fated or had happened before. They helped him to lower his little coracle. Then he took off his sword ( "I shall need it no more," he said ) & flung it far away across the Idled sea. Where it fell it stood upright with the hilt above the surface. Then he bade them goodbye, trying to be sad for their sakes, but he was quivering with happiness.
Lucy, for the first and last time, did what she had always wanted to do, taking him in her arms and caressing him. Then hastily he got into his coracle & took his paddle, & the current caught it & away he went, very black against the lilies. But no lilies grew on the wave; it was a smooth green slope. The coracle went more & more quickly, & beautifully it rushed up the wave's side.
For one split second they saw its shape & Reepicheep's on the very top. Then it vanished, & since that moment no one can truly claim to have seen Reepicheep the Mouse.
