Question

They heard a noise that sounded as though it was breaking the trees. It was Wind coming home. When he arrived, he said, “My mother, I smell royal blood here.”

“No, you don’t smell royal blood,” Wind’s mother said. “Not here you don’t, because not a creature comes here.”

Then Anton called,

“Ai, ai! Make of me an ant
That goes where nobody knows.”

And he turned into an ant. He hid in a crack of the door.

Wind said, “My mother, give me water, I’m thirsty. Give me food to eat, I’m hungry. I’ve been blowing through all the trees and past every house, all over th