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Malu turned toward her. His eyes locked on hers. His face showed no expression. He simply owned her eyes. She did not look away, but her steady gaze at him was not defiance or strength, it was simply her inability to look at anything else while he commanded her attention.
Then he looked at Peter. Wang-mu wanted to turn and see how he responded, whether he also felt the power in this man's eyes. But she could not turn. Still, after a long moment, when Malu finally looked away, she heard Peter murmur, "Son of a bitch," and she knew that, in his own coarse way, he had been touched.
It took many long minutes for Malu to be seated on a mat under a roof built just that morning for this moment, and which, Grace assured them, would be burnt when Malu left, so that no one else would ever sit under the roof again. Food was brought to Malu then; and Grace had also warned them that no one would eat with Malu or watch him eat.
But Malu would not taste the food. Instead, he beckoned to Wang-mu and Peter.
The men were shocked. Grace Drinker was shocked. But Grace at once came to them, beckoning. "He calls you."
"You said we couldn't eat with him," said Peter.
"Unless he asks you. How can he ask you? I don't know what this means."
"Is he setting us up to be killed for sacrilege?" asked Peter.
"No, he's not a god, he's a man. A holy man, a wise and great man, but offending him is not sacrilege, it's just unbearable bad manners, so don't offend him, please come."
They went to him. As they stood across from him, the food in bowls and baskets between them, he let loose a stream of Samoan.
Or was it Samoan? Peter looked puzzled when Wang-mu glanced at him, and he murmured, "Jane doesn't understand what he's saying."
Jane didn't understand, but Grace Drinker did. "He's addressing you in the ancient holy language. The one that has no English or other European words. The language that is spoken only to the gods."
"Then why is he saying it to us?" asked Wang-mu.
"I don't know. He doesn't think that you're gods. Not the two of you, though he does say you bring a god to him. He wants you to sit down and taste the food first."
"Can we do that?" asked Peter. "I beg you to do it," said Grace.