But one day, while we were away, the tree was struck by lightning.

Great limbs were riven, and the nest was demolished.

I started to rebuild, but the Swift One would have nothing to do with it.
As I was to learn, she was greatly afraid of lightning, and I could not persuade her back into the tree.

So it came about, our honeymoon over, that we went to the caves to live.

As Lop-Ear had evicted me from the cave when he got married, I now evicted him; and the Swift One and I settled down in it, while he slept at night in the connecting passage of the double cave.
And with our coming to live with the horde came trouble.