Women
Let us bring the Chief. (They go out.)
The Chisera
(Reappearing cautiously.) Have they gone?
Padahoon
To bring Rain Wind to command you.
The Chisera
Can he command the sap to rise or bid the deer-weed spring when there is no rain? My power is gone from me.
Padahoon
Chisera, it is a grave matter to refuse service in time of war—be advised by the word of a friend—