Well, that's good, then. Some Narnians wish to build mills there to take advantage of the wind and grind flour and spices. Off they go as soon as the snow melts. The monarchs settle a dispute over the use of a quarry they need for mill-related rocks but it otherwise go quite smoothly.

When some Isles voyagers have brought cocoa beans to Narnian shores and Isabella has coaxed an encyclopedia from her bookshelf with a loose explanation of how to refine them, there is at long last domestic cornucopia-independent Narnian chocolate. It is popular with several kinds of creatures, including centaurs, dwarves, and monarchs. Some of it doesn't temper right - the local chocolatier is still working on it - but liquid chocolate is still pretty good for some purposes.

For example, the purpose of royalty dipping fruit and cake into it and feeding it to each other. That's a purpose.

"We've been dating for about three years now," remarks Isabella, offering James a strawberry.