For though he had long worked for The Temple and loved The Lords, he feared Their Powers. He did not want to see things that were to happen, or, things that had been. He did not want thousands of lives to depend on his falsities.
37 But as he neared The Spring, on the road before him all that he had Dreamed came to pass, exactly as he had seen it! As the young Warlock
stood brushing himself off, Dancing Crow came up. "I can be of assistance," he suggested, "with the men with me, and, your own together, we can lift the cart and put back the wheel!"
38 "Your assistance," announced The Warlock, "will be appreciated, indeed. My men are weary from our long march down out of the hills, and we have a great way to go yet. We are replacements heading south to join the fighting."
39 When the wheel was back on The Warlock turned to his befriender. "Tell me," he inquired, "what is an Adviser of The First Speaker's Council doing way out here?"
40 "I have come," said Dancing Crow, "to find a Warlock who fell on his butt, and, whose name means 'The Roaring Wind, The Terrible Storm.' For I dreamed a Dream, and The Lords told me that this man should lead our people in the great struggle they now face.  I was sent by The First Speaker to find him."
41 "Well, you've found him!" explained the other Warlock. "This is Thundering Dove, so named because of the great storm that tore apart our village the night he was born.
42 They thought all was going to be destroyed. The whirling wind was coming straight for the gate, but then he broke forth from his egg, gave a great cry, and the wind lifted, rose into the sky, and

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