The Unfinished Baking

'I was whirled away from my dearest hopes as the hurricane snatches the tree from the forest and casts it into the surging sea,' writes Megito. 'The money lender waited not for my master to return, but told Swasti to tell him he had taken me.' He adds: 'Under the law he can claim thee and sell thee. I know not what to do... Why should such trouble come upon him?'