Aslan leads them on a joyful, merry chase through the garden, and somehow no flowers are crushed or fruit ruined in their play. He jumps the stream and bats water with one enormous paw at Cuthbert, then jukes to the side to avoid Alain as the gunslinger comes after him. At times, he's hopelessly out of reach, and at others his fur is within an inch or less of their reaching fingers.

Caspian feels he hasn't laughed so much in an age, running after the Lion with Susan's hand in his. Ahead, Aslan stops suddenly and lets the gunslingers' momentum carry them into him, then lovingly wrestles them down to the ground.