Hugi

“Which is why I had you run against Hugi, who is thought. It does not matter how fast you ran—and none of us have ever seen anyone run like you, Thialfi—even you cannot run faster than thought.”

“So I will not have you run against a grown man. Where is our little Hugi?”

Thialfi ran as he had never run before, moving so fast that the world seemed to contain only himself and Hugi.

Hugi reached the finish line when Thialfi was still five, perhaps ten seconds away.

Hugi stepped over to the starting line.