And afterward I again upon my way.
And ever upon each sixth hour I did stop that I eat and drink,
and did onward again, even as a machine; for I commanded myself to
this duty of victual, that I lack not my strength unto the saving
of the Maid. Yet, truly, I did seem to choke alway as I strove with
the tablets.
And lo! ever as I went forward did the Land awake; and my spirit
to know that Great Forces did be abroad, restless. And the Monsters
to begin wild roamings, because that they also to know of the
Unrest that did be come into the Land. And there to go presently
odd roarings across the Land, from night unto night. And I to go
forward the more desperate, and to step neither to the right nor to
the left; but to make direct unto my Mighty Home.
And the Vale of Red Fire did be
