Reepicheep
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Reepicheep is a character from C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series. He appears in Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and also in The Last Battle. He is a large talking mouse that carries a Rapier and has a large plume stuck behind his ear.
Reepicheep was descended from a group of mice that were made talking mice after gnawing through the ropes that bound Aslan to the Stone Table after the White Witch had killed him.
In Prince Caspian, Reepicheep was the leader of twelve mice that helped fight against Caspian's Uncle Miraz in the First Battle of Beruna at Aslan's How. He and his followers would run through the battle and plunge their rapiers into an unsuspecting enemy's foot, causing him to fall, after which he would be quickly dispatched. Reepicheep's tail was lost during the fray, and he petitioned Aslan afterward to have it restored. Aslan demurred, voicing concern on whether the mouse thought too much of his honor. Peepiceek and the other mice, however, prepared to cut off their own tails to avoid bearing an honor denied to their leader. This loyalty convinced Aslan to restore Reepicheep's tail.
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Reepicheep accompanied Caspian on his voyage in the hope of finding Aslan's Country at the end of the world. He believed it was possible to sail to Aslan's Country because as an infant, a dryad prophesied that he would find all he sought "...Where the waves grow sweet...There is utter east." At the end of the Dawn Treader's journey, Lucy, Edmund, Eustace and Reepicheep set forth in a small row boat to Aslan's Country. The three children are returned to our world through a door in the sky, while Reepicheep remained in Aslan's Country.
In The Last Battle Reepicheep appears at the very end to greet the last of the Narnians at the Emperor's Garden. He was exactly as the Pevensies remembered him, having not aged or died in the hundreds of Narnian years that had elapsed since their time. Because of this he is compared to St. Peter who in Christian mythology is thought to guard the gates to heaven and welcome those who accepted Christ in their lifetimes.
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