Then, Umslopogaas, I went back to the cave, never looking behind me.
"Now when I was come to the cave I did this: I skinned the she-wolf also.

When I had finished the sun was up, and I knew that it was time to go.

But I could not go alone--he who sat aloft in the cleft of the cave must go with me.

I greatly feared to touch him--this Dead One, who had spoken to me in a dream; yet I must do it.

So I brought stones and piled them up till I could reach him; then I lifted him down, for he was very light, being but skin and bones.