fifth head owlet- wolf

Tony Ellis · 28 Mar 2013, 17:26 · from 2013-March.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:26:50 +0000
Subject: (urth) fifth head owlet- wolf
Message-ID: <CA+WO8_6d0jKjjbvJU4Bc-Nh_9OZ1Wt=+w=fqkQ6b5bd7+JsT9Q at mail.gmail.com>

Marc Aramini wrote:
> ...more telling in this section is the concept that the sleeping place
>of the Hillmen moves and hides itself if it is not satisfied with the
>sacrifice a Hillman brings - thus Sandwalker leaves little bodies at
>night and sometimes they are gone in the morning.

I don?t think this passage is about sacrifice to a magic sleeping
place. It?s just a poetic way of saying ?If you don?t provide food for
the the tribe, the tribe will move on without telling you.?

?[others] had come back to the sleeping place with hands empty and
slack bellies, hoping for leavings and begging their mothers for
breasts now belonging to a younger child. These were dead. They had
learned the truth that the sleeping place is easily found by a
food-bringer, not hard for a full belly to find; but shifts and turns
before hungry mouths until it is lost in the stones, and on the third
empty day is gone forever.? - A Story, 5HoC

The little bodies Sandwalker leaves at night are mice to keep the
Shadow Children from killing him while he sleeps, as one of the SCs
confirms:

?Mice you left us while you came here, and now you would be repaid in
deer?s flesh. Dear mice indeed. We should have strangled you while you
slept."

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