"Matt? Don't drown them!" the man called. I remember those things." They could hear the sound of running water. "Yes, that's true! But how -" "I haven't always been sightless.
"That's it, exactly!" "Much the same as the blossom on a morning glory vine, I would think," the man said. "Matt told me that it's the same shade as the sky on a sunny summer-start morning," he said. "It's the plant that my people use to make blue dye." "Your beautiful shirt," she murmured, and he smiled again. "It's woad we've brought you," he explained. "Take the plants, then, Matt," the man suggested, "and give them their drink." He turned toward Kira and she could tell that he knew how to feel her presence in his darkness. "She gots water right here! You probably be thinking we gotta take these plants to the river! But right here, iffen I open this door, she gots water that squirts out!" He pranced to the door and opened it. "But you never be guessing what!" Now he turned to the blind man again and tugged at his sleeve to be certain he was paying attention. They be perking up when we give them a drinkie. "Now we be needing some water," he said, lifting several wilted plants out gently, "but these be all right. He picked up a bag from the floor beside the chair and pulled its drawstring open. I have been here before, but it was a long time ago." "And look!" Matt was like a toddler or a puppy, dashing about in excitement.
And I felt a need to find my way by myself. "He wanted so badly to show you the gift. "Your shirt is ruined." "I have others," the man said with a smile. She felt awkward and uncertain in his presence. "I'm sorry," Kira said politely to the man. See?" Matt pulled at the man's shirt and showed Kira the hem, at the back, from which he had torn the piece of cloth. So he gimme the scrap for the first giftie. I be telling him he can keep Branchie for a helper, but he want to do it all alone. "But then at the end he wanted to feel his way alone. "I brung him all the way from yonder!" Matt said, turning to Kira and Thomas.
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