"Oh Earth, Moon and Sun!" she cried. "How long have I waited to hear some person say that!" And she wept afresh.
I waited until she was not quite finished before I said: "This Lao'ue seems most cruel and bad-tempered, not like our Sacred Folk at all. I would learn more of him, to hear if he is a danger to us."
Ehweh looked about wildly, and clapped a hand over my mouth. "Don't say that!" she whispered. "He can walk unseen. He might hear us, and what then?"
I thought quickly. "You know yourself that he cannot be everywhere, nor know everything. Seeing how little regard he has for you, I think that if he is not in his own house right now, he is busy watching your man. I am certain he is not here, for I have good hearing and I hear no humming as of bees."
She gripped my arm again. "You're
