came into Elephantia like weather.
He went first to the cage, where his master crouched as a tiger, unable to speak, and he looked at the beast with the eyes that see through everything and saw his master inside it, and did not gloat and did not make a speech. He broke the spell, and the tiger stood up and was a man again, thin and shaking, and Tripitaka came out of the animal shape into the arms of the disciple he had banished, and the book gives them no reconciliation scene, because neither of them is a person who could get through one. Wukong knelt. Tripitaka lifted him up. That was all. It was, between these two, everything.
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