THE CHILDREN
no house. One went before one of his faces and the other went before the other, and each of the boys said to him: "What way is there to go from the Wood of Daylight-Gone and into the world?"
"It is long since I opened any way," Janus said, his two faces speaking at once. "I can open no way for you."
Janus with his white beards looked so wise to them that the thought that he could not show them a way made them feel more lonely and more lost. They went on. Then they met a man taller and broader than any man they had ever known; he was carrying a spear upon his shoulder from which a dead wolf hung. This was Mars. They spoke to him and said:
"Tell us, you who go into the woods killing wolves, how we may come out of the Wood of Daylight-Gone."
Mars went marching past them. "What battles would you fight?" said he as he went.
"No battles, Mars."
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