Chapters 10-12 Summary

In Chapter Ten, Alice returns to the group, clothed in grass she has woven together. Burton finds the dress amusing, but she insists on wearing it. The group begins to explore once again, in order to determine what has been happening in the plains. Burton finds huts made of bamboo have been constructed and decides his group should make some huts of their own. They return to the river and find a pile of grass dresses near a group of humans playing in the water. Burton finds Wilfreda, a woman rumored to have attacked a Sir Robert Smithson, and he invites her to join the group. Ruach tells Burton that he got his leg back from the resurrection, since he had lost it during his previous life, as well as having been made young again. He considers it funny that he...