"I expected to find you where I left you!" He did not reply at once.
"I don't know what made me run," answered another.

"I was frightened!" "It was a man that came down the hill from the palace," said a third.
"How did he frighten you ?" "I don't know." "He wasn't a man," said Odu; "he was a shadow; he had no thick to him!" "Tell me more about him." "He came down the hill very black, walking like a bad giant, but spread flat.

He was nothing but blackness.

We were frightened the moment we saw him, but we did not run away; we stood and watched him.

He came on as if he would walk over us.