As the chief came up, Lodrix said to him: “Send to my father; he will give you and your people all that you ask if you will take me home.”
“We ask bronze,” said the chief. “Will your father give that?”
“The chief of the Dormorants has much bronze,” said Lodrix. “He will give you all you ask if you will send a messenger to him.”
“Go, Tevico,” said the chief. “Go to the chief of the Dormorants, and tell him that we hold his son a prisoner. We will not harm him and will send him home if he will give us all the bronze in his village.”
Tevico bowed to his chief and ran swiftly away through the forest.
He hurried onward, never stopping to look at the deer as they crossed his path or to answer the birds as they sang in the tree tops.
He did not even stop to rest, though he was panting for breath.
As he raced on he saw a man in the distance.