IV. The Morning After

In the morning, as I have heard, many a warrior gathered around the gift-hall. Tribal chiefs came from far and wide over distant paths to behold the wonder, the tracks of the enemy. His parting from life did not seem grievous to any of the men who saw the splendor of the inglorious one&rsquo;s footprints, how he, weary in spirit and overcome in the fight, doomed and driven out, bore his…