Mik-api sits watching Red Paint prepare the evening meal and remembers his own wife, who died of a miscarriage when they were both very young. He senses something different about Red Paint and asks her if she is with child. When Fools Crow enters the lodge, Mik-api asks him if he succeeded in finding Fast Horse. Fools Crow tells him that Fast Horse refused to return with him. Mik-api says that some Napikwans have recently been killed, presumably by Owl Child and his men, and now Three Bears “is worried that the whites will take revenge” (252).

Joe Kipp sits on his horse overlooking the Lone Eaters camp and remembers a time when he was respected and accepted among the band. He thinks to himself that “these people have not changed…but the world they live in has” (254). That night, the most important men in the band meet to discuss the fact that the seizer chiefs want to meet to discuss the recent atrocities committed by Owl Child. They resolve to send a rider to ask the other camps how they will respond to Kipp’s message.