said, "I'm sure I can find a good man for her
when we get home."
74 As The Hawk approached he could see why the woman had been left
behind. She was not exactly ugly, but she wasn't beautiful, either, and
the little boy seemed to be nothing but skin and bones. The Hawk put
out his hand, and the woman seemed terrified! The King spoke to her,
she took The Hawk's hand, and obediently followed him back to his
quarters.
75 The Lady Hawk looked surprised as they entered. "What is this?" she
asked.
76 The Hawk explained. "I can't understand why she's so frightened!"
77 The Lady Hawk began to speak to the woman in Mu, and after a moment
began to laugh. "She thinks you're a god," she explained. "Some of her
people think that's the only way you could have defeated them, and they
believe that if a mortal woman is known by a god she goes 'poof,' and
goes to his Land of Glory to serve him as his handmaiden! She thought
you took her for that purpose!"
78 "That's not very funny!" said The Hawk. "Tell her that such things
are foolishness. If I were to know her, no such thing would happen. But
I do not intend to. I intend to take her home with us and find her a
mate. I don't intend to turn her into a cloud of smoke and send her to
some golden palace on a cloud!"
79 The Lady Hawk translated, the woman fell to her knees, and began to
weep. "Now what?" asked The Hawk. For several minutes The Lady Hawk and
the woman talked.
80 "It seems," The Lady Hawk explained, finally, "that her marriage was
not much to speak of.
81 The man took her because her father offered him his estate where she
was his only heir. The man