'Yea. What of it? It goes to its home on the cliffs of Coressus.'
'No, no! That is not all! It spoke as it flew—shrieked sounds of gloom, which the augurs understand; it means evil!'
'Dost thou believe the augurs, Nika?'
'I do, and the words of the priestess also.'
'Which priestess?'
'Saronia.'
'What of her?'
'Dost thou not know?'
'Thy mother told me something respecting an uttered curse.'
'What if she become High Priestess of Diana?'