Peter, Chris, and Brian were watching TV in the living room when Meg came bursting in. "I'm here," she shouted. "I'm here. I've come back, I'm all right."
"What are you talking about, Meg?" said Chris.
"Haven't you all been wondering where I was?"
"So, you've been hidin', have ya?" said Peter. "Poor old Meg, hiding an' nobody noticed! You'll hafta hide longer than that if ya want people to start lookin' for ya!"
"But I've been away for hours and hours," said Meg.
Lois came in, holding Stewie in her arms. "Oh, good, ya found your hat," she said to Meg.
"I found a lot more than that," said Meg. "I found an entrance to another world inside our washing machine!"
Lois looked at Peter. "Pee-tah, what's she talkin' about?"
"I dunno," said Peter. "She just barged in here an' started babbling nonsense."
"It's not nonsense!" said Meg. "Come downstairs! I'll show you!"
Bemused, the rest of the family followed her down to the basement.
Meg was talking a mile a minute. "I came out in the middle of some woods, and it was snowing, and I met a faun named Mr. Tumnus and had tea with him!"
"What's a faun?" asked Chris.
"I think that's a half-man, half-horse," Brian answered.
Stewie shook his head. "Brian, you idiot, that's a centaur! A faun is half man, half goat!"
Meg had reached the bottom of the stairs now. "See, guys? It's called Narnia, and it's right in here!"
She threw open the door of the washing machine to reveal…
Absolutely nothing.
Peter started clapping his hands. "Good joke, Meg! Ya almost had me believin' ya for a second there!"
"It's not a joke!" Meg insisted. "It's totally real!" She stuck her head inside the machine again, but nothing happened.
"Well, it's not there now, but it was there before," she said lamely. "I was there for hours."
"Oh, knock it off, Meg!" said Lois. "You were talkin' to me an' Stewie in the kitchen just a few minutes ago. Then ya went downstairs an' came right back up again. There wasn't time for you to have gone anywhere."
"Well, maybe Narnia time works differently to ours," said Meg. "So, while all those hours went by while I was in Narnia, no time at all passed here."
"That doesn't make any sense," said Lois. "Don't ya think you're carryin' this a bit too far?"
She turned and walked back up the stairs. The others followed her, leaving Meg alone.
Peter was the last one to go. His parting words to Meg were, "Hey, maybe ya shoulda said ya found the entrance to Narnia inside a wardrobe, instead of a washin' machine. That might have made for a better story."
"It's not a story!" Meg was almost crying. "It was true!"
But no one believed her.