The children of Quetzal muster on our shores and slay my people.

Let me mourn, I say.' At that moment another messenger came from the palace, having grief written on his face.
'Speak,' said Montezuma.
'O king, forgive the tongue that must tell such tidings.

Your royal sister Papantzin was seized with terror at yonder dreadful sight,' and he pointed to the heavens; 'she lies dying in the palace!' Now when the emperor heard that his sister whom he loved was dying, he said nothing, but covering his face with his royal mantle, he passed slowly back to the palace.
And all the while the crimson light gleamed and sparkled in the east like some monstrous and unnatural dawn, while the temple of Quetzal burned fiercely in the city beneath.
Now, I turned to the princess Otomie, who had stood by my side throughout, overcome with wonder and trembling.
'Did I not say that this country was accursed, princess of the Otomie ?' 'You said it, Teule,' she answered, 'and it is accursed.' Then we went into the palace, and even in this hour of fear, after me came the minstrels as before..