"
"Yes," I answered, "your gods are in the way of giving you all you want,
but it is not so with mine and me."
"What then do you desire, Brother, who can have even to the half of the
kingdom?"
"Kari," I replied, "I cry not for the Earth, but for the Moon."
He understood, and his face grew stern.
"Brother, the Moon alone is beyond you, for she inhabits the sky while
you still dwell upon the earth," he answered with a frown, and then
began to talk of the peace with Huaracha.
CHAPTER X
THE GREAT HORROR
The day of the new moon came and with it the great horror that caused
all the Empire of Tavantinsuyu to tremble, fearing lest Heaven should be
avenged upon it.
Since Upanqui had found his elder son again he began to dote upon him,
as in such a case the old and weak-minded often do, and would walk about
the gardens and palaces with his arm around his neck babbling to him
of whatever was uppermost in his mind. Moreover, his soul was oppressed
because he had done Kari wrong in the past, and preferred Urco to him
under the urging of that prince's mother.
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