Now they all yeasaid it, though Aurea was somewhat timorous, albeit
she would not be parted from the others; so when night came there
they made their beds and lay down; and the end of it was, that a
little before midnight Atra waked the others, and did them to wit
that by her deeming something was toward; and presently they were all
four as wide awake as ever they were in their lives; and next,
without any sound that was strange, there came the image of a woman
on to the dais, clad in green like to an huntress of ancient days,
her feet sandalled, her skirts gathered up into her girdle, so that
her legs were naked; she had a quiver at her back, and a great bow in
her hand.
Now to all of them save Atra this appearance seemed to be the image
of Birdalone; but she told her fellows afterwards, that to her it
seemed not to be altogether Birdalone, but rather some other one most
like unto her, as it were her twin-sister.
Gazed the image kindly and sweetly on them, so that they beheld it
without fear; and it seemed to them that it gave forth speech; yet
not so much that the sound of words was in the air about and smote
their ears, as that the sense of words reached the minds of them.
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