I finally revealed one of my secrets to a man, Calum MacInness, that I could run well, faster than any full-sized man. And so did I, ahead of a man twice my size.

This is one of the secret things of me, the things I have not revealed to any person, save to Morag, my wife, and Johnnie and James, my son, and Flor, my daughter; I can run, and I can run well, and if I need to I can run faster and longer and more surely-footedly than any full-sized man, and it was like this that I ran then, through the mist and the rain, taking to the high ground and the blackrock ridges, yet keeping below the skyline.

He was ahead of me, but I spied him soon, and I ran on and I ran past him, on the high ground with the brow of the hill between us. Below us was a stream, I can run days without stopping. That is the first of my three secrets, and one secret I have revealed to no man.