There is no one among us here, not being a lord of the lightning, who would have dared to stand upon that place with Hokosa while the flashes fell about him.

Yet you have done it; it was Hokosa who was driven away.

You have passed the trial by fire, and henceforth, whether we refuse your message or accept it, you are great in this land." "There is no need to praise me, King," answered Owen.

"The risk is something; but I knew that I was protected from it, seeing that I shall not die until my hour comes, and it is not yet.

Listen now: your god yonder is nothing but a stone such as I have often seen before, for sometimes in great tempests they come to earth from the clouds.