Wherever she may be, that beautiful lady is not upon the Holy Mount, unless there is another Holy Mount in the Land of Death.
Moreover, Lord, as we are speaking of this matter, let me tell you the forest upon that Mount must be trodden by none save the priest of the Child.

If others set foot there they die, for it is watched by a guardian more terrible even than Jana, nor is he the only one.

Ask me nothing of that guardian, for I will not answer, and, above all, if you or your comrades value life, let them not seek to look upon him." Understanding that it was quite useless to pursue this subject farther at the moment, I turned to another, remarking that the hailstorm which had smitten the country of the Black Kendah was the worst that I had ever experienced.
"Yes," answered Harut, "so I have learned.

That was the first of the curses which the Child, through my mouth, promised to Simba and his people if they molested us upon our road.

The second, you will remember, was famine, which for them is near at hand, seeing that they have little corn in store and none left to gather, and that most of their cattle are dead of the hail." "If they have no corn while, as I noted, you have plenty which the storm spared, will not they, who are many in number but near to starving, attack you and take your corn, Harut ?" "Certainly they will do so, Lord, and then will fall the third curse, the curse of war.