They watched us from among the Trees. Their Priestess
called to me and said, "How is it with your people?" I said
"Their hearts are changed. I cannot see their hearts as I used to."
She said, "That is because you have only one eye. Come to me
and I will be both your eyes." But I said, "I must show my people
how to use their knives against The Beast, as you showed me how
to use my knife." I said this because the Magic Knife does not
balance like the flint. She said, "What you have done, you have
done for the sake of a woman, and not for the sake of your
people." I asked of her, "Then why did the God accept my right
eye, and why are you so angry?" She answered, "Because any
man can lie to a God, but no man can lie to a woman. And I am not
angry with you. I am only very sorrowful for you. Wait a little,
and you will see out of your one eye why I am sorry. So she hid herself.
'I went back with my people, each one carrying his Knife, and
making it sing in the air - tssee-sssse. The Flint never sings. It
mutters - ump-ump. The Beast heard. The Beast saw. He knew!
Everywhere he ran away from us. We all laughed. As we walked
over the grass my Mother's brother - the Chief on the Men's Side
- he took off his Chief's necklace of yellow sea-stones.
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