Now, when they had departed, there came from the west, see! two strangers guided by the Sálamopia, and all the fleet runners of the Kâ'kâ then first seen of men and feared as by children now, for they were fierce and scourged people from their pathways to make room for those they guided. For know that these were the two brothers Ánahoho who had returned to the desolate cities of their people. Therein had they sought in vain for the living in the blackened houses. They even tore down the chimneys and peered in, seeking for their brother K'yäk'lu, and when they did not find him, they struck their faces and held their noses in grief, and their hands were all black with soot, see! thus became their faces, flat and masked with the black hand-mark of dismay, and as they held their faces they cried dismally and long.





©1996, Richard Hooker

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