“But, Mayaro, she did not then know why I had come to seek you.”

“I knew as quickly as I heard your name.”

“How could you know before you saw me and I had once made plain my business?”

“Birds come and go; but eagles see their natal nest once more before they die.”

“I do not understand you, Mayaro.”

He made no answer.

“Merely to hear my name from this child’s lips, you say you guessed my business with you?”

“Surely, Loskiel — surely. It was all done by magic. And, at once, I knew that I should also speak to her, there in the storm, and answer her her question.”