为啥有的第一胎是男孩 《能言马与男孩》第16期:在塔什班城门口(5)

《能言马与男孩》第16期:在塔什班城门口(5)  

Soon
however
they had more important things to think of. They were getting near Tashbaan. There were more
and larger
villages
and more people on the roads. They now did nearly all their travelling by night and hid as best they could during the day. And at every halt they argued and argued about what they were to do when they reached Tashbaan. Everyone had been putting off this difficulty
but now it could be put off no longer. During these discussions Aravis became a little
a very little
less unfriendly to Shasta; one usually gets on better with people when one is making plans than when one is talking about nothing in particular.
Bree said the first thing now to do was to fix a place where they would all promise to meet on the far side of Tashbaan even if
by any ill luck
they got separated in passing the city. He said the best place would be the Tombs of the Ancient Kings on the very edge of the desert. "Things like great stone bee-hives
" he said
"you can't possibly miss them. And the best of it is that none of the Calormenes will go near them because they think the place is haunted by ghouls and are afraid of it." Aravis asked if it wasn't really haunted by ghouls. But Bree said he was a free Narnian horse and didn't believe in these Calormene tales. And then Shasta said he wasn't a Calormene either and didn't care a straw about these old stories of ghouls. This wasn't quite true. But it rather impressed Aravis (though at the moment it annoyed her too) and of course she said she didn't mind any number of ghouls either. So it was settled that the Tombs should be their assembly place on the other side of Tashbaan
and everyonefelt they were getting on very well till Hwin humbly pointed out that the real problem was not where they should go when they had got through Tashbaan but how they were to get through it.
"We'll settle that tomorrow
Ma'am
" said Bree. "Time for a little sleep now."
“女士，我们明天会安排好的，”布里说，”现在该睡一会儿了。”
But it wasn't easy to settle. Aravis's first suggestion was that they should swim across the river below the city during the night and not go into Tashbaan at all. But Bree had o reasons against this. One was that the river-mouth was very wide and it would be far too long a swim for Hwin to do
especially with a rider on her back. (He thought it would be too long for himself too
but he said much less about that). The other was that it would be full of shipping and of course anyone on the deck of a ship who saw o horses swimming past would be almost certain to be inquisitive.
Shasta thought they should go up the river above Tashbaan and cross it where it was narrower. But Bree explained that there were gardens and pleasure houses on both banks of the river for miles and that there would be Tarkaans and Tarkheenas living in them and riding about the roads and having water parties on the river. In fact it would be the most likely place in the world for meeting someone who would recognize Aravis or even himself.