Status Updates From The Horse and His Boy

Not the colonialist perspective influencing this 😂

Hwin outlines what they can do to look like broken down horses, but Bree’s ego objects. He does relent when she points out that the goal is to get there. They reach the final ridge and see the great city of Tashbaan, so great that it frightens Shasta.

More imagery of Mercury: they are having to steal or they talk about stealing. They spend a lot of time arguing about the plan (dialectic). They have to divide Aravis’s armour and put each piece in bundles. Could Bree be sulfur and Hwin be Mercury and there be a twin transformation of the quarreling couple?

The talk of ghouls and ghosts and tombs all point to nigredo. The horses are afraid to swim with riders on their backs. Plus people on ships might see them. Shasta suggests they go past the city and cross the river where it is narrower but people might recognize Aravis and Bree, even in disguise. Hwin’s suggestion is to go through the city in disguise, but Bree is hard to disguise to anyone with an experienced eye.

As they get closer to Tashbaan, they travel by night and hide and sleep by day. They argue a lot over what to do (go through or bypass). They pick a place to meet in case they are separated: the Tombs of the Ancient Kings, which look like great stone beehives. Are there highway markers? LOL Calormenes think they are haunted so everyone avoids the tombs. They renounce ghost stories now that they are free.