Time: June.
Scene: In the Palace of Zoorm; the Hall of the Hundred Princes.
The Princes sit at plain oaken tables with pewter mugs before them. They wear bright grass-green cloaks of silk; they might wear circlets of narrow silver with one large hyacinth petal rising from it at intervals of an inch.
Oomuz, a Common Soldier, huge and squat, with brown skin and dense black beard, stands just inside the doorway, holding a pike, guarding the golden treasure.
The golden treasure lies in a heap three or four feet high near the right back corner.
Sentries, also brown-skinned and bearded, carrying pikes, pass and repass outside the great doorway.
The Glory of Ximenung: Heigho, Moomoomon.
The Overlord of Moomoomon: Heigho, Glory of Ximenung.
Ximenung: Weary?
Moomoomon: Aye, weary.