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1. How does Willa avoid the current of the river in Chapter 1?

Willa does not know the river in this spot, she avoids the currents of the river by climbing up through the limbs of the old trees and asking for their help. The branches reach out over the water to hold her. They hold her gently and then let her go once she is across.

2. What people does Willa come from?

Willa comes from a clan of forest people. The Cherokee call them "the old ones." The white-skinned homesteaders call them "night-thieves" (3). In the old language, her people are called the Faeran.

3. Why does Willa believe that the day-people will kill her if they catch her in Chapter 2?

When Willa gets inside the homesteader's lair, she knows that if they catch her inside they will kill her. They have killed the trees in the forest and hunted the animals. They murdered her parents and her twin sister and others of the Dead Hollow lair. They do not think. They do not hesitate. They kill what they do not understand.

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