"I will show you presently."

They walked on for above a mile in silence, while Maskull digested
what had been said. When they came to the first trees, which grew
along the banks of a small stream of transparent water, Corpang
halted.

"That bandage around your forehead has long been unnecessary,"
he remarked.

Maskull removed it. He found that the line of his brow was smooth
and uninterrupted, as it had never yet been since his arrival in
Tormance.

"How has this come about--and how did you know it?"

"They were Faceny's organs. They have vanished, just as the phaen's
body vanished."

Maskull kept rubbing his forehead. "I feel more human without them.
But why isn't the rest of my body affected?"

"Because its living will contains the element of Thire."

"Why are we stopping here?"

Corpang broke off the tip of one of the aerial roots of a tree, and
proffered it to him. "Eat this, Maskull."