The Chisera
Kima! Padahoon, you do tempt me to try if I can curse.
Padahoon
(Conciliatory.) I have no wish to anger the friend of the gods, but I am a plain man wishing good to my campody, and it seems not good to me that Simwa has grown suddenly so great.
The Chisera
(Recovering herself.) What has that to do with the Chisera?
Padahoon
I have known this Simwa since he was first tied in a basket, and, though he has grown to be war leader, I think he is most like a pod of rattleweed that is swollen to twice its size at the end of the season, yet has no more in it than at the beginning. And I do not know how, without the help of magic medicine, he has come to be what he is with so little in him.
The Chisera
The Chief's daughter has trusted him.