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 beehives，” 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 momentit 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 everyone felt 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.
