they threaten the Wide Water.”
“Is the Wide Water frightened by a split wand?
I would think it would swallow it without resisting.
Is that not the lesson taught us by the Wide Water?
To win by yielding?”
Confused, Grandfather Elder turned to his people.
“One here has climbed the high mountains,
and he says there is a village on the other side of this island
where they are fed by the Wide Water.
I am told they are a strange people
who snare their food with blankets made of holes,
and they stab the Wide Water with pointed spears as if it angered them.”
“What kind of people would threaten the Wide Water that feeds them?”
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