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He plays a hypnotic tune on a flute-like instrument, and Lucy actually sees shapes form in the flames of Tumnus' hearth fire, shapes of a man riding a unicorn, and fauns and dryads dancing. Then he offers to play some music of the sort that he used to play in Narnia's summers. He won't tell her why her human origin is so important, but he rather strenuously persuades her to join him at his home for tea and crumpets-'and perhaps I'll even break into the sardines.' Lucy questions nothing that she sees, even the idea that such a creature could not only exist, but also be civilized enough to have a furnished home-with a library of leather-bound books carrying such titles as 'Humans' and 'Is Man a Myth?' Tumnus then reveals that the world they are in, called Narnia, has seen no Christmas, and no season except winter, for the last hundred years. The faun, who gives his name as Tumnus (James McAvoy), is delighted to learn that Lucy is a 'daughter of Eve,' i.e. And then she sees an even stranger sight: a creature, half man and half goat, carrying an armload of brown-wrapped parcels and holding a flimsy parasol over his head! This creature and Lucy both cry out and hide from one another, and then come out and start a conversation-tentative at first, and then more confident.

Strangest of all the objects she sees is a perfectly functioning gas lamppost standing far away from any sort of street.