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Cora, perhaps, does not live happily ever after-but she certainly lives mostly content until her death, and fully in joy after that.
In the years between canon and Aslan’s Country, Cora:
· Loses much of her family when they leave for Earth after Aslan’s offer to let them go there instead of staying in a Narnia no longer under Telmarine power
· Moves to Cair Paravel, the capital city of Narnia
· Is mentored by Doctor Cornelius, Royal Tutor and good friend of any one of the good folk of Narnia
· Starts a children’s school in Caer Paravel
· After Doctor Cornelius’s passing in some twenty years and knowing her school to be well-established, moves back to Beruna
· Spends her last years as the headmistress of what used to be the Bridge School and is now the River Academy
· Dies in her mid-sixties, which is a fair age in her world, before Prince Rilian is kidnapped or the Queen killed.
After that she goes to Aslan’s Country and finds her heart‘s hopes, realized in Milliways and during canon, truly fulfilled in that land.
She does miss her friends in Milliways, but by the time canon comes it has been months since the pantry door has shown anything but the pantry beyond; and though she has checked the door in the Chipstede schoolhouse several times (earlier, rather than later-the town has been mostly abandoned and the schoolhouse is eventually lost in the tangle of the forest) she has never found it to show differently. This is one of her few refrets--that she lost it, not that she found it in the first place.