The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

whether to go in and look for Rishda Tarkaan (but none of them wanted to do that) or to
set fire to the stable.
He looked round again and could hardly believe his eyes. There was the blue sky
overhead, and grassy country spreading as far as he could see in every direction, and his
new friends all round him laughing.
"It seems, then," said Tirian, smiling himself, "that the stable seen from within and the
stable seen from without are two different places."
"Yes," said the Lord Digory. "Its inside is bigger than its outside."
"Yes," said Queen Lucy. "In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was
bigger than our whole world." It was the first time she had spoken, and from the thrill in
her voice, Tirian now knew why. She was drinking everything in even more deeply than
the others. She had been too happy to speak. He wanted to hear her speak again, so he
said:
"Of your courtesy, Madam, tell on. Tell me your whole adventure."
"After the shock and the noise," said Lucy, "we found ourselves here. And we wondered
at the door, as you did. Then the door opened for the first time (we saw darkness through
the doorway when it did) and there came through a big man with a naked sword. We saw
by his arms that he was a Calormene. He took his stand beside the door with his sword
raised, resting on his shoulder, ready to cut down anyone who came through. We went to
him and spoke to him, but we thought he could neither see nor hear us. And he never
looked round on the sky and the sunlight and the grass: I think he couldn't see them
either. So then we waited a long time. Then we heard the bolt being drawn on the other
side of the door. But the man didn't get ready to strike with his sword till he could see
who was coming in. So we supposed he had been told to strike some and spare others.
But at the very moment when the door opened, all of a sudden Tash was there, on this
side of the door; none of us saw where he came from. And through the door there came a
big Cat. It gave one look at Tash and ran for its life: just in time, for he pounced at it and
the door hit his beak as it was shut. The man could see Tash. He turned very pale and
bowed down before the Monster: but it vanished away.
"Then we waited a long time again. At last the door opened for the third time and there
came in a young Calormene. I liked him. The sentinel at the door started, and looked very
surprised, when he saw him. I think he'd been expecting someone quite different -"
"I see it all now," said Eustace (he had the bad habit of interrupting stories). "The Cat was
to go in first and the sentry had orders to do him no harm. Then the Cat was to come out
and say he'd seen their beastly Tashlan and pretend to be frightened so as to scare the
other Animals. But what Shift never guessed was that the real Tash would turn up; so
Ginger came out really frightened. And after that, Shift would send in anyone he wanted
to get rid of and the sentry would kill them.