As for Otter himself, when he understood fully what he had done, he almost wept for grief.
"Who could have known, Baas ?" he groaned.

"It was the sight of the green food that bewitched me, who have always hated the taste of grass.

And now my folly has undone all, and it seems that I must be a god for many months, if, indeed, they do not find me out." "Never mind, Otter," said Leonard, moved to pity by the dwarf's genuine grief.

"You have lost the stones and you will have to find them again somehow.

By the way, Soa, why did you start so when the old priest came in ?" "Because he is my father, Deliverer," she answered.
Leonard whistled; here was a new complication.