Chapter 15: Two-Soul Man and Chapter 16: La Fayette Summary

Ta-Kumsaw begins to rock back and forth, enduring the ache that accompanies the knowledge that so many of his people were dying. Taleswapper sees his pain, and knows that Alvin failed to stop the slaughter. Taleswapper can't write about the story in this place so instead he recites the lines that go through his mind until Ta-Kumsaw stops him, telling him it is over. Ta-Kumsaw tells him that as a result of the massacre, he will have no problem assembling men to go to war against the white man. He asks Taleswapper what he saw, but it was Alvin's vision he recited, not his own.

Then, as the morning dawns and Alvin has still not returned, Ta-Kumsaw realizes that Alvin needs him. Unable to see the path that Alvin took, Ta-Kumsaw...