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We do not know what Fionn had done to Conaran, but it must have been bad enough, for the king of the Shi' of Cesh Cotran was filled with joy at the sight of Fionn thus close to him, thus unprotected, thus unsuspicious. This Conaran had four daughters.
There was also the plunge and scurry of the deer, the yapping of badgers, and the whirr of birds driven into reluctant flight. Now the king of the Shi' of Cesh Corran, Conaran, son of Imidel, was also watching the hunt, but Fionn did not see him, for we cannot see the people of Faery until we enter their realm, and Fionn was not thinking of Faery at that moment.
"No, no," he cried; "no, my soul, Fionn, this would not be a proper combat for you. I take this fight." "You have done your share, Goll," said the captain. "I should finish the fight I began," Goll continued, "for it was I who killed the two sisters of this valiant hag, and it is against me the feud lies." "That will do for me," said the horrible daughter of Conaran.
Lots of the people in the Shi' learned that song by heart, and they applied it to every kind of circumstance. BY his arts Conaran changed the sight of Fionn's eyes, and he did the same for Cona'n. In a few minutes Fionn stood up from his place on the mound. Everything was about him as before, and he did not know that he had gone into Faery. He walked for a minute up and down the hillock.
Conaran did not like Fionn, and, seeing that the great champion was alone, save for Cona'n and the two hounds Bran and Sceo'lan, he thought the time had come to get Fionn into his power.
"He cannot see us now," Conaran replied, "but he will see us in a minute." "Won't Fionn be glad when he sees us!" said the three sisters. And then they joined hands and danced joyfully around their father, and they sang a song, the first line of which is: "Fionn thinks he is safe. But who knows when the sky will fall?"
Conaran called these three to him. "Fionn is alone," said he. "Fionn is alone, my treasures." "Ah!" said Caevo'g, and her jaw crunched upwards and stuck outwards, as was usual with her when she was satisfied. "When the chance comes take it," Conaran continued, and he smiled a black, beetle-browed, unbenevolent smile.
And the two men stared into the hillside as though what they were looking at was too wonderful to be looked away from. "Who are they?" said Fionn. "What are they?" Cona'n gasped. And they stared again. For there was a great hole like a doorway in the side of the mound, and in that doorway the daughters of Conaran sat spinning.
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