Chapters Ten - Twelve Summary

Chapter 10. Later that day Nimeran returns from hunting with a large deer. After butchering the deer, Nimeran's wife Micasio gives Alicia's mother the intestines to make a stew, and divides the rest of the deer up between the village women. Nimeran brings a leg over to the white ladies as payment for the rifle cartridges they gave him. When Alicia's mother's stew is ready, Marco stands in the middle of the road and shouts for everyone to come and eat, and all of the villagers come with plates. Micasio's stew is ready a short time later and everyone takes their plates to her house and eats. Soon the entire village is full and content.

Later that night Alicia and Marco go to the old ladies' house while Alicia's mother watches Cami. Joanna and Margarita play some of...