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"She says I am your guardian, sent by the gods, to destroy the serpent for your sake so saving the people." Cadman finished huskily. "But I didn't reach him, Cadman," Skag protested. "I didn't touch him inside!" As they all came into the village enclosure, Dhoop Ki Dhil slipped into a house near by, saying that Dhanah thought the child slept too deeply she would care for her.
As Skag fled on past Dhanah, the whole story of Dhoop Ki Dhil was eating in his brain like fire. She was somewhere in there ahead of him somewhere near that monster snake. The weaving of the serpent's head, looping in long reaches above the bamboo tops looking over them, looking down into them, looking for its prey had frozen him to the marrow of his bones.
The child shook her head, but answered him: "Wherever you will see the sun-melted red." "What is that?" he wondered. "That? That is the long-long, wide-wide cloth that covers all her body. "What is the name of the boy who led us here?" he asked next. "We call him Dhanah and many other names; but he is not a small boy, he is a man very wise and sad."
Then undulation crept into it, till the top-end followed the outline of a double loop like a figure-of-eight. The snake had chained them this long. Skag recovered with an inward revulsion that rent him. He plunged down the path, his faculties surging thought, feeling, realisation, volition tearing him. He met Dhanah carrying an utterly limp girl in his arms the boy's face gone grey.
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