"Yes." Ehweh looked away. "And he taught my sons to kill, also."
I calculated as quickly as ever I had on the hunt. "When did your man last go to visit Lao'ue's hut? How long, think you, before La'oue appears again?"
Ehweh looked up, eyes bright with sudden hope. "He went but yesterday," she said. "Think you that the Sacred One will not appear for another six days?"
"So I expect. Now tell me again, and leave nothing out; by what path did you come here from the good land? Also, describe carefully those two trees,"
She remembered well, and described in good detail. We might have spoken longer, but that a voice came shouting from outside the hut.
"Woman," the man's voice bellowed, "Is my dinner ready yet?"
"Oh, Earth!" Ehweh whispered, scrambling to her feet. "It is my house-bond." She
