are looking at it then, it will be the last thing
you will ever see. Do you understand?"
67 "Yes, Visitor," answered Screaming Hawk. "The light will blind. But
surely one who can fly in the sky like you, must have weapons superior
to ours. Why do you not use them?"
68 "You understand," the man gasped, "that I am not of your people?"
69 "The Lords told me that those who watch in the sky might help us.
Surely, you are one of these Visitors," explained Screaming Hawk.
70 The man came closer. "You mean the one who had no body by the Tree?
You understood his meaning? You did not think he spoke of Spirits?"
71 "If he had meant to say The Lords," Screaming Hawk explained, "he
would have said 'The Lords watch in the sky.' I knew he was speaking of
people other than our own, someone different from us, who floated in
the sky and watched us."
72 "You will never cease to amaze us," praised the other man. "You
understand ideas far ahead of those your species should understand.
Surely, somehow you have been interfered with, but I had better say no
more, or I will be interfering.
73 Yes, we have great weapons, but we are forbidden to use them. We are
not allowed to interfere in the affairs of others. We did, once, and it
taught us a bitter lesson, one that we will pay for for eternity.
74 We may even be punished for that that we do for you. But we do not
think that giving you light to fight by, will be interfering that much.
We doubt if we will be changing the outcome, only causing the suffering
to end a little sooner. Would it be permitted? May I hold the primitive
weapon?"
75 Screaming Hawk stepped forward, and laid the