Courage, Dear Heart

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'Lucy leant her head on the edge of the fighting top and whispered, "Aslan, Aslan, if ever you loved us at all, send us help now.”

The darkness did not grow any less, but she began to feel a little - a very, very little - better...

Lucy looked along the beam and presently saw something in it...and at last with a whirring of wings it was right overhead and was an albatross. It circled three times round the mast and then perched for an instant on the crest of the gilded dragon at the prow. It called out in a strong sweet voice what seemed to be words though no one understood them.

...But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, “Courage, dear heart,“ and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.

In a few moments the darkness turned into a greyness ahead, and then, almost before they dared to begin hoping, they had shot out into the sunlight and were in the warm, blue world again. And all at once everyone realized that there was nothing to be afraid of and never had been.'

- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader