Chapter 37

“Then why can’t we take our turn at capitalizing this Kiooka eruption?” I asked. “Since they blame us for the outbreak, it’s naturally our duty to appease these gods who are kicking up all the disturbance. To propitiate those gods we’d have to take their Sookinook, and also Knutsson, the Fire-God, and the whole temple outfit, for that matter, up to Kiooka. We could take ’em up there for the rites expected of us. That gives us a good reason for a dignified retreat into the higher regions of the Bad Lands, where we c…