‘Child,’
said the Lion, ‘I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.’ ”
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
I’ve always liked that last line.
Aravis asks the Lion about the fate of the slave
she drugged in order to make her escape. Lewis does not tell us whether her
question is prompted by guilt, compassion, fear or curiosity. All are possible.
But the Lion’s answer is simply, “No one is told any story but their own”.