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The
impulse
of
flight
was
now
stronger
in
me
than
curiosity
.
The
arrows
had
ceased
flying
.
The
last
of
the
Folk
seemed
gone
,
though
there
may
have
been
a
few
still
hiding
in
the
upper
caves
.
The
Swift
One
and
I
started
to
make
a
scramble
for
the
cliff
-
top
.
At
sight
of
us
a
great
cry
went
up
from
the
Fire
People
.
This
was
not
caused
by
me
,
but
by
the
Swift
One
.
They
were
chattering
excitedly
and
pointing
her
out
to
one
another
.
They
did
not
try
to
shoot
her
.
Not
an
arrow
was
discharged
.
They
began
calling
softly
and
coaxingly
.
I
stopped
and
looked
down
.
She
was
afraid
,
and
whimpered
and
urged
me
on
.
So
we
went
up
over
the
top
and
plunged
into
the
trees
.
This
event
has
often
caused
me
to
wonder
and
speculate
.
If
she
were
really
of
their
kind
,
she
must
have
been
lost
from
them
at
a
time
when
she
was
too
young
to
remember
,
else
would
she
not
have
been
afraid
of
them
.
On
the
other
hand
,
it
may
well
have
been
that
while
she
was
their
kind
she
had
never
been
lost
from
them
;
that
she
had
been
born
in
the
wild
forest
far
from
their
haunts
,
her
father
maybe
a
renegade
Fire
-
Man
,
her
mother
maybe
one
of
my
own
kind
,
one
of
the
Folk
.
But
who
shall
say
?
These
things
are
beyond
me
,
and
the
Swift
One
knew
no
more
about
them
than
did
I
.
We
lived
through
a
day
of
terror
.
Most
of
the
survivors
fled
toward
the
blueberry
swamp
and
took
refuge
in
the
forest
in
that
neighborhood
.
And
all
day
hunting
parties
of
the
Fire
People
ranged
the
forest
,
killing
us
wherever
they
found
us
.
It
must
have
been
a
deliberately
executed
plan
.
Increasing
beyond
the
limits
of
their
own
territory
,
they
had
decided
on
making
a
conquest
of
ours
.
Sorry
the
conquest
!
We
had
no
chance
against
them
.
It
was
slaughter
,
indiscriminate
slaughter
,
for
they
spared
none
,
killing
old
and
young
,
effectively
ridding
the
land
of
our
presence
.
It
was
like
the
end
of
the
world
to
us
.
We
fled
to
the
trees
as
a
last
refuge
,
only
to
be
surrounded
and
killed
,
family
by
family
.
We
saw
much
of
this
during
that
day
,
and
besides
,
I
wanted
to
see
.
The
Swift
One
and
I
never
remained
long
in
one
tree
,
and
so
escaped
being
surrounded
.
But
there
seemed
no
place
to
go
.
The
Fire
-
Men
were
everywhere
,
bent
on
their
task
of
extermination
.
Every
way
we
turned
we
encountered
them
,
and
because
of
this
we
saw
much
of
their
handiwork
.
I
did
not
see
what
became
of
my
mother
,
but
I
did
see
the
Chatterer
shot
down
out
of
the
old
home
-
tree
.
And
I
am
afraid
that
at
the
sight
I
did
a
bit
of
joyous
teetering
.
Before
I
leave
this
portion
of
my
narrative
,
I
must
tell
of
Red
-
Eye
.
He
was
caught
with
his
wife
in
a
tree
down
by
the
blueberry
swamp
.
The
Swift
One
and
I
stopped
long
enough
in
our
flight
to
see
.
The
Fire
-
Men
were
too
intent
upon
their
work
to
notice
us
,
and
,
furthermore
,
we
were
well
screened
by
the
thicket
in
which
we
crouched
.
Fully
a
score
of
the
hunters
were
under
the
tree
,
discharging
arrows
into
it
.
They
always
picked
up
their
arrows
when
they
fell
back
to
earth
.
I
could
not
see
Red
-
Eye
,
but
I
could
hear
him
howling
from
somewhere
in
the
tree
.
After
a
short
interval
his
howling
grew
muffled
.
He
must
have
crawled
into
a
hollow
in
the
trunk
.
But
his
wife
did
not
win
this
shelter
.
An
arrow
brought
her
to
the
ground
.
She
was
severely
hurt
,
for
she
made
no
effort
to
get
away
.
She
crouched
in
a
sheltering
way
over
her
baby
(
which
clung
tightly
to
her
)
,
and
made
pleading
signs
and
sounds
to
the
Fire
-
Men
.
They
gathered
about
her
and
laughed
at
her
—
even
as
Lop
-
Ear
and
I
had
laughed
at
the
old
Tree
-
Man
.
And
even
as
we
had
poked
him
with
twigs
and
sticks
,
so
did
the
Fire
-
Men
with
Red
-
Eye
’
s
wife
.
They
poked
her
with
the
ends
of
their
bows
,
and
prodded
her
in
the
ribs
.
But
she
was
poor
fun
.
She
would
not
fight
.
Nor
,
for
that
matter
,
would
she
get
angry
.
She
continued
to
crouch
over
her
baby
and
to
plead
.
One
of
the
Fire
-
Men
stepped
close
to
her
.
In
his
hand
was
a
club
.
She
saw
and
understood
,
but
she
made
only
the
pleading
sounds
until
the
blow
fell
.
Red
-
Eye
,
in
the
hollow
of
the
trunk
,
was
safe
from
their
arrows
.
They
stood
together
and
debated
for
a
while
,
then
one
of
them
climbed
into
the
tree
.
What
happened
up
there
I
could
not
tell
,
but
I
heard
him
yell
and
saw
the
excitement
of
those
that
remained
beneath
.
After
several
minutes
his
body
crashed
down
to
the
ground
.
He
did
not
move
.
They
looked
at
him
and
raised
his
head
,
but
it
fell
back
limply
when
they
let
go
.
Red
-
Eye
had
accounted
for
himself
.
