Brightness of Day.
After the whole process as according to how the witches had commanded, Oranmiyan had done and at the instant he stepped on the eyes and threw it into the river nothing had happened.
Not the wave of the river, not a strike of thunder, not the breeze of wind, just nothing which led Oranmiyan into a thought and a question he asked himself if he had not missed it and had done it the right way.
But that he had done everything the witches had asked in the order which he was told and that he had not been mistaken he made assurance of himself. And this moment he turned back thus, walked down straight into the path that led to the iroko tree and eventually down towards the path where the Eldest Priest and the rest of the priests and the Chiefs and Elders had been waiting for him.