Lasaraleen
Also known as Lasaraleen Tarkheena
A fashionable Tarkheena and former friend of Aravis. She hides Aravis in Tashbaan and inadvertently helps uncover Rabadash’s plan against Archenland.
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In the chronicles
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The Horse and His Boy5 cited passages⌄
- Chapter III · paragraph 21
…l that summer," and Aravis would say, "Oh, Mezreel! I had a friend there, Lasaraleen Tarkheena. What a delightful place it is. Those gardens, and the Valley of the Thousand Perfumes!" Bree was not in the le…
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 1
…ght Aravis) was heard shouting out, "Way, way, way! Way for the Tarkheena Lasaraleen!" and immediately, following the crier, came four armed slaves and then four bearers carrying a litter which wa…
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 2
She knew Lasaraleen quite well--almost as if they had been at school together--because they had often stayed in the same houses and…
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 1
"How dreadful! How perfectly dreadful!" whimpered Lasaraleen. "Oh darling, I am so frightened. I'm shaking all over. Feel me."
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 3
"Darling, how can you?" squeaked Lasaraleen. "I can't do anything--not now. My poor nerves! No: we must just lie still a bit and then go back."
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