Inspiration came to me suddenly. “Remember the last chapter in the Ryianza, where Kammbi tells the story of the lost animal? A man owned a big house and a bunch of land where he raised all types of animals. That man kept a good watch over them. However, one day he lost one of those animals, and he looked everywhere on his land, trying to find it. The man was distraught but determined to find where that lost animal had gone. It took several days, but the man found it on the other side of town, where it had been caught by another landowner who was preparing to kill it for food. The man pleaded with the landowner to give him back that animal. The landowner refused and said, ‘What was lost to you has been found by me. And the finder gets to keep.’ If you remember, the man made an offer to buy
