Then she landed and stood in the sun to dry her, and so, strengthened
with that refreshing, clad her, and went aboard and did the due
rites, and sped over the waters, and had soon lost sight of that ugly
blotch on the fair face of the Great Water.
Here ends the Second Part of the Water of the Wondrous Isles, which
is called Of the Wondrous Isles, and begins the Third Part of the
said tale, which is called Of the Castle of the Quest.
THE THIRD PART: OF THE CASTLE OF THE QUEST
CHAPTER I. BIRDALONE COMES TO THE CASTLE OF THE QUEST
Empty was the day to Birdalone save for her thoughts, and she slept
not a good while of the night. When she awoke in the morning there
was no land before her, and she began to fear somewhat that so it
might be many days, and that she might have to fare the water
landless, and perchance till she starved for hunger; for now was
there but little victual left of that which the kind Viridis had
given her. So she wore the day somewhat uneasily, and by then night
fell had eaten but little; yet was that little the last crumb and
gobbet of her store.
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