The Songs of the Kings
“The corpse was lying with face to the sky, or what was left of the face—the eyes had gone, and the nose and most of the right cheek had been gnawed away. It seemed to Calchas, as he looked down, that these eyeless sockets had the same staring look of possession as when the living voice had spoken and the throat labored to bring out the goddess’s words, tell of the devouring of the hare’s young and warn the assembled chiefs. The dried blood was caked on his neck where the vein had been severed. ...This was no savaging of the dogs; his killers had slashed the throat that had betrayed them; he had been killed for speaking out of turn, for saying something that was not in the story, not part of the plan. But it was in the spaces between human plans that the gods conveyed their messages; he had been a vehicle for the goddess and in stopping his mouth they had tried to stop hers. The dogs were at the bidding of the Mistress, at her bidding they had brought this poor murdered creature up to the light again.MoreLess
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