[A pause.

You mean to starve? You will have none of it?

I’ll leave it there, where you can sniff the savour.

Snuff it, old hedgehog, and unroll yourself!

But if I were the King, I’d make you do it

With wisps of lighted straw.

SEANCHAN.

You have rightly named me.

I lie rolled up under the ragged thorns

That are upon the edge of those great waters