Further up and further in! Lucy lived and breathed the mantra as she continued to close the gap that separated Narnia from the other worlds, climbing up and down the ring of mountains, skipping lightly across the rocks in the rivers, swimming up waterfalls instead of sliding down them and running—always running through the grass and in between the trees that gracefully parted to allow the Queen and her brothers through.

When she finally reached the real England, she and the two Kings ran straight for their parents' outstretched arms with smiles and tears on their faces, free at last to reveal their true selves and the secrets they kept from the two that raised them to be who they were.