"Thy eyes are very bright," said Laeg.
"They will be brighter ere the day," he replied.
"That is an expert juggler," said Laeg. "How he tosseth the bright
balls!"
"Can he toss the stars so?" said Setanta.
"Thou art strange and wild to-night," said Laeg.
"I will be stranger and wilder ere the morrow," cried Setanta.
He stood up to go. Laeg caught him by the skirt of his mantle. The
piece came away in his hand.
"Whither art thou going, Setanta?" cried the King from the other
end of the vast hall.
"To seek my horses," cried the lad. His voice rang round the
hollow dome and down the resounding galleries and long corridors,
so that men started in their seats and looked towards him.
"They are stabled since the setting of the sun," said the chief
groom.
"Thou liest," answered the boy. "They are in the hills and valleys
of Erin." His eyes burned like fire and his stature was exalted
before their eyes.
"Great deeds will be done in Erin this night," said Concobar.
He went forth into the night. There was great power upon him.
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