“For everyone the want that is bad,” said the grey sayer of the law. “What you will want we do not know; we shall know. Some want to follow things that move, to watch and slink and wait and spring; to kill and bite, bite deep and rich, sucking the blood. It is bad. ‘Not to chase other men; that is the law. Are we not men? Not to eat flesh or fish; that is the law. Are we not men?’ ”

“None escape,” said a dappled brute standing in the doorway.

“For everyone the want is bad,” said the grey sayer of the law. “Some want to go tearing with teeth and hands into the roots of things, snuffing into the earth. It is bad.”

“None escape,” said the men in the door.