“Lord, I come from Raven's Rock. Why do you ask?”
“Only it is that there have been no other people save myself and my companions in this land for the past several years, not til you have shown up just now,” Manawydan said.
“Well, Lord, I am merely passing through on my way to my own country. But what sort of work is it you are about?” the scholar asked.
“Hanging a thief I caught stealing from me.”
“Lord, what sort of thief. The creature I see in your hand is but a mouse and it is scarcely fitting for a man of your rank to be handling such a beast. Let it go.”
“Between the One and myself, I will not. I caught it stealing and I will punish it appropriately.”
“Lord, I will give you this sork I received in alms if you will but let it go,” the scholar said.
“Between the One and myself, I
