The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

"Where has Puzzle got to?" said Eustace.
They all shouted out Puzzle's name and Jill went round to the other side of the Tower to
see if he had gone there.
They were quite tired of looking for him when at last his large grey head peered
cautiously out of the doorway and he said, "Has it gone away?" And when at last they got
him to come out, he was shivering the way a dog shivers before a thunderstorm.
"I see now," said Puzzle, "that I really have been a very bad donkey. I ought never to
have listened to Shift. I never thought things like this would begin to happen."
"If you'd spent less time saying you weren't clever and more time trying to be as clever as
you could -" began Eustace but Jill interrupted him.
"Oh leave poor old Puzzle alone," she said. "It was all a mistake; wasn't it, Puzzle dear?"
And she kissed him on the nose.
Though rather shaken by what they had seen, the whole party now sat down again and
went on with their talk.
Jewel had little to tell them. While he was a prisoner he had spent nearly all his time tied
up at the back of the stable, and had of course heard none of the enemies' plans. He had
been kicked (he'd done some kicking back too) and beaten and threatened with death
unless he would say that he believed it was Aslan who was brought out and shown to
them by firelight every night. In fact he was going to be executed this very morning if he
had not been rescued. He didn't know what had happened to the Lamb.
The question they had to decide was whether they would go to Stable Hill again that
night, show Puzzle to the Narnians and try to make them see how they had been tricked,
or whether they should steal away Eastward to meet the help which Roonwit the Centaur
was bringing up from Cair Paravel and return against the Ape and his Calormenes in
force. Tirian would very much like to have followed the first plan: he hated the idea of
leaving the Ape to bully his people one moment longer than need be. On the other hand,
the way the Dwarfs had behaved last night was a warning. Apparently one couldn't be
sure how people would take it even if he showed them Puzzle. And there were the
Calormene soldiers to be reckoned with. Poggin thought there were about thirty of them.
Tirian felt sure that if the Narnians all rallied to his side, he and Jewel and the children
and Poggin (Puzzle didn't count for much) would have a good chance of beating them.
But how if half the Narnians - including all the Dwarfs - just sat and looked on? or even
fought against him? The risk was too great. And there was, too, the cloudy shape of Tash.
What might it do?
And then, as Poggin pointed out, there was no harm in leaving the Ape to deal with his
own difficulties for a day or two. He would have no Puzzle to bring out and show now. It