Alota answered humbly. "As Great Prince Toka knows all, so he knows his Hall Of Life cannot be extended until the divinely ordained times." Leading them to the pair of doors at which the Hall ended, Alota touched her wand to each, then stood obsequiously aside as the portals began swinging away. "O Great Prince Toka. Your personal rooms." Old Ledo strolled in last and the great doors began swinging to. "O Great Prince Toka," Alota bid. "When you have refreshed yourself, we shall return to escort you to your banquet." As the doors snugged together, Toka was to them, ear to the crevice where they joined. "Well?" Rok urged impatiently. "Gone back up the Hall." Toka pressed this side of the doors. No action. "We could tune up our little axes on them," Rok suggested laconically. Toka hesitated. Old Ledo was dry. "Perhaps we'll meet the so-called brains of this mad society at that banquet." "Likely." Toka joined in cataloguing the room. Windowless, and illumined by the softly glowing ceiling, it was a restful lounge room. Roya pushed open the plain green door at the rear. Battle-axes idling, Toka and the others followed. A short cross-corridor led into luxurious bedrooms. The left one had three large beds, the right two huge ones. "Everything for every one of us," Roya mused. "But no bath!" Elees complained. "I've found it!" Rok shouted. All followed him through the door opposite the lounge room. The newest room was all green. Around the pool ran a generous width of stone floor. Dropping her ax, Elees ran for the white diving board. Her voice rang in merry challenge. "Last one in is a glue-foot!" Rok raced after her. "Not me!" Roya abruptly flung her arm around Toka's neck and tumbled them both in--and the water frolic was on. Refreshed and clean again, the party split to the respective bedrooms. Toka faced Rok and Old Ledo. "Any ideas?" "The Kosannans we've seen so far," Old Ledo offered, "are anything but combative." "We could butcher them by the hundreds." Rok toyed with his battle-ax. "Only...." "Perhaps," Toka hoped as he led for the lounge room, "we'll learn something definite at that banquet." Roya and Elees were waiting. At once a reverent knocking came on the great entry doors. Assuming his role, Toka intoned royally, "Enter!" The great doors began swinging in. As the procession moved up the Hall Of Life, Toka was startled by the addition to the reliefs on the wall--a perfect portrayal of the frolic in the bathing pool! "I," Old Ledo mused dryly, "didn't see any of them in there with us." Surfacely casual, Toka spoke ahead to their guide. "Kosanna's artisans are swift, O Princess Alota--as well as accurate." Alota bowed her titian head in acknowledgment. "As Great Prince Toka knows all, so he knows the scene of his frolic in his pool was ready for installation even before he came to Kosanna."