"I am older than you, O Nalasu; I have ever been unafraid.

Yet never have I been braver than you.

I would that every man of the tribe were as brave as you.

Yet do you give me great sorrow.

Of what worth are your courage and cunning, when you have no seed to make your courage and cunning live again ?" "I am an old man," Nalasu began.
"Not so old as I am," Bashti interrupted.