It’s so the stories go that the Given tell. If you find a beautiful fair maid swimming in the river, her fishtail flashing; if you follow her down into her water home with her, she will make the water like air so you can breathe. But then she’ll ask you, playful, You eat salt, or you eat fresh? And if you say salt, she will let you go back home, but if you say fresh …“It’s my business,” he said. Pouted. Looked at the ground. If you only eat unsalted food, fresh food, we believe you make Leisure vexed, for salt is the creatures of the sea, and good for the Given to eat, but fresh—fresh is the flesh of Leisure, and if you eat that, it’s pride. You’re trying to make yourself as one of the was. Wakanda never eats salt. He, a living man, giving himself powers like a law. That’s why he couldn’t hear the voice of the was.