The lamb asking Shift a question he can't answer is Aslan incognito
- All things considered, this may well be the Lion himself making an incognito appearance, pointing out the weakest place of Shift's reasoning to speak for and do cruel things in the name of Aslan:"Please," said the Lamb, "I can't understand. What have we to do with the Calormenes? We belong to Aslan. They belong to Tash. They have a god called Tash. They say he has four arms and the head of a vulture. They kill men on his altar. I don't believe there's any such person as Tash. But if there was, how could Aslan be friends with him?"
- Not only is this the question that nearly leads to everyone seeing through Shift (although Shift manages to avoid it by sheer force of intimidation) - this is also the very same question the answer to which is later explained to Emeth in nearly identical words by Aslan:*It is false. Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites [...] For I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath’s sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not [...] And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves"
- Aslan makes an appearance in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as a lamb to heavily hint at who he is "in your own world" - so it would be fitting to tell Shift not to misuse his name in this form as well. And the rather unassuming form fits this perfectly, too:An innocent little lamb "so young that everyone was surprised he dared to speak at all."
