C. S. Lewis has captured this sense of the biblical meaning of blessed in his novel The Horse and His Boy. Shasta is the name of the boy, and his journey has been a very hard one because of the task given to him to warn King Lune of the impending attack by the armies of Tash. In one scary scene, Shasta is a lone rider upon a mountain pass in the darkness; he rides an unfamiliar horse that won’t obey his commands. Then Shasta is suddenly aware of a large presence alongside him. That presence is Aslan.