“Come to me by the lake, when you see me in the thick fog,” he said.
The Deer kept this promise a secret, too; because he hoped to go to Skyland alone. Day after day, he waited beside the lake. One day, when the thick fog was rising from the lake,—Deer saw the beautiful Rainbow.
Rainbow made an arch from the lake to the big mountain. Then a shining light fell about the Deer, and he saw a straight path shining with all the colours of the Rainbow. It led through a great forest.
“Follow the beautiful path through the great forest,” Rainbow said.
The Deer entered the shining pathway, and it led him straight to the house of Little Turtle in Skyland. And the Deer went about Skyland everywhere.
When the great Council met, Deer was not there. “The Deer is not come to the Council, where is the Deer?” they asked.
Hawk flew about the air everywhere, and could not find Deer in the air. Wolf searched the deep woods, and could not find Deer in the forests.
When Dark Cloud brought Little Turtle to the Council, Little Turtle told them how Rainbow had made a path for Deer to climb to Skyland. “There it is now,” said Little Turtle.
The animals looked over the lake, and they saw, there, the beautiful pathway. They had never seen it before.
“Why did not Deer wait for us? All of us should have gone to Skyland together,” they said.