We do not the things we seem to do, who are but the tool and the lightning.

What I would know is who or what guides her hand and gives her the might to shield or to destroy." "The question is wide, Ki, or so it seems to me who, as you say, have little wisdom, and whoever can answer it holds the key of knowledge.
Your magic is but a small thing which seems great because so few can handle it.

What miracle is it that makes the flower to grow, the child to be born, the Nile to rise, and the sun and stars to shine in heaven?
What causes man to be half a beast and half a god and to grow downward to the beast or upward to the god--or both?
What is faith and what is unbelief?
Who made these things, through them to declare the purposes of life, of death, and of eternity?
You shake your head, you do not know; how then can I know who, as you point out, am but foolish?
Go get your answer from the lady Merapi's self, only mayhap you will find your questions countered." "I'll take my chance.

Thanks to Merapi's lord! A boon, O Prince, since you will not suffer that other name which comes easiest to the lips of one to whom the Present and the Future are sometimes much alike." Seti looked at him keenly, and for the first time with a tinge of fear in his eyes.
"Leave the Future to itself, Ki," he exclaimed.

"Whatever may be the mind of Egypt, just now I hold the Present enough for me," and he glanced first at the chair in which Merapi had been seated and then at the cloth upon which his son had lain.
"I take back my words.