Part Three: Moving in Clades: Chapters Ten and Eleven Summary

Lindsay's new group is the Lifesiders Clique. Lindsay, as acting representative, greets the newest group calling themselves Wallchildren and requesting asylum. The Wallmother, originally Kitsune, is now four hundred thousand, eight hundred and twelve tons of mass in total. They are taken to an executive suite where Lindsay greets Captain Murasaki who takes him to the Health Center so Kitsune can speak through her. Kitsune warns him that Vera Constantine, a defector who has come to see him, cannot be trusted.

Lindsay goes to Vera's quarters and can see Kitsune's distrust as she is kept in a room under house arrest, made of stone and iron. They try to heal Philip but without success and the clan lives in fear of Lindsay without Constantine. Vera brings an...