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One year later (in our world) after the adventures described in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are sitting on a railway station on their way back to school. Suddenly they feel something dragging them away.
"What on earth - " began Peter. "Susan, let go! What are you doing? Where are you dragging me to?"
"I'm not touching you," said Susan. "Someone is pulling me. Oh - oh - oh - stop it!"
Everyone noticed that the others' faces had gone very white.
"I felt just the same," said Edmund in a breathless voice. "As if I were being dragged along."
"Me too," said Lucy. "Oh, I can't bear it."
"Look sharp!" shouted Edmund. "All catch hands and keep together. This is magic - I can tell by the feeling. Quick!"
Next moment the luggage, the seat, the platform, and the station had completely vanished ...
The children have been called back into Narnia, where many, many years have passed. Now an evil tyrant, Miraz, wants to steal the crown from its rightful heir, his young nephew Prince Caspian. Miraz hates anything to do with the Old Days of Narnia when Peter was High King, and he has tried to wipe out any trace of the Talking Animals, naiads and dryads, dwarfs and fauns. Worst of all, he will not allow anyone even to mention the name of Aslan. Prince Caspian instinctively realises that this is wrong and he learns everything he can about Old Narnia from his faithful tutor, Doctor Cornelius.
It is Doctor Cornelius who warns Caspian that Miraz wants to kill him, so Caspian escapes deep into the forests and mountains. He falls from his horse and is carried unconscious into a little cave. As he wakes he hears voices and a sudden blaze of firelight reveals a face ...
It was not a man's face but a badger's, though larger and friendlier and more intelligent than the face of any badger he had seen before. And it had certainly been talking. Caspian knew that he had found the Old Narnians at last.
In the following days, Caspian makes many new friends. They are all determined, loyal and - like Reepicheep the Talking Mouse - utterly brave, but they are not yet strong enough to defeat Miraz. Caspian has one last hope - the horn of Queen Susan, which is said to bring help to anyone who blows it. But it is years since anyone has used the Old Magic. Will Aslan help the children to awaken the spirits of Old Narnia? Will they beat Miraz in battle and give Caspian the throne?
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