“It is I,” the boy answered. And he told what he had seen. “Why would the desert reveal such things to a stranger,
when it knows that we have been here for generations?” said another of the chieftains.
Because my eyes are not yet accustomed to the desert,the boy said.
I can see things that eyes habituated to the desert might not see.
And also because I know about the Soul of the World, he thought to himself.
The oasis is neutral ground. No one attacks an oasis,said a third chieftain.
I can only tell you what I saw. If you don’t want to believe me, you don’t have to do anything about it.
The men fell into an animated discussion. They spoke in an Arabic dialect that the boy didn’t understand,
but, when he made to leave, the guard told him to stay. The boy became fearful; the omens told him that something was wrong.
He regretted having spoken to the camel driver about what he had seen in the desert.
Suddenly, the elder at the center smiled almost imperceptibly, and the boy felt better.
The man hadn’t participated in the discussion, and, in fact, hadn’t said a word up to that point.
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