The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

that we'd been unstiffened. You youngsters won't understand. But we stopped feeling
old."
"Youngsters, indeed!" said Jill. "I don't believe you two really are much older than we are
here."
"Well if we aren't, we have been," said the Lady Polly.
"And what has been happening since you got here?" asked Eustace.
"Well," said Peter, "for a long time (at least I suppose it was a long time) nothing
happened. Then the door opened -"
"The door?" said Tirian.
"Yes," said Peter. "The door you came in - or came out - by. Have you forgotten?"
"But where is it?"
"Look," said Peter and pointed.
Tirian looked and saw the queerest and most ridiculous thing you can imagine. Only a
few yards away, clear to be seen in the sunlight, there stood up a rough wooden door and,
round it, the framework of the doorway: nothing else, no walls, no roof. He walked
towards it, bewildered, and the others followed, watching to see what he would do. He
walked round to the other side of the door. But it looked just the same from the other
side: he was still in the open air, on a summer morning. The door was simply standing up
by itself as if it had grown there like a tree.
"Fair Sir," said Tirian to the High King, "this is a great marvel."
"It is the door you came through with that Calormene five minutes ago," said Peter
smiling.
"But did I not come in out of the wood into the stable? Whereas this seems to be a door
leading from nowhere to nowhere."
"It looks like that if you walk round it," said Peter. "But put your eye to that place where
there is a crack between two of the planks and look through."
Tirian put his eye to the hole. At first he could see nothing but blackness. Then, at his
eyes grew used to it, he saw the dull red glow of a bonfire that was nearly going out, and
above that, in a black sky, stars. Then he could see dark figures moving about or standing
between him and the fire: he could hear them talking and their voices were like those of
Calormenes. So he knew that he was looking out through the stable door into the
darkness of Lantern Waste where he had fought his last battle. The men were discussing