Bright Water
She has great power with the gods.
Wacoba
So much so that if she had a husband, he dare not beat her lest she run and tattle to them.
Seegooche
She is our Chisera, and there is not another like her between Tehachappi and Tecuya. If she were wearied with stooping and sweating, if she were anxious with bearing and rearing, how could she go before the gods for us?
Tiawa
Aye, that is the talk in the wickiups, that we must hold her apart from us to give her room for her great offices, but I have always said—but I am old and nobody minds me—I have always said that if she had loved as we love and had borne as we have borne, she would be the more fitted to entreat the gods that we may not lose.
Seegooche
(As the Chisera comes out of the hut.) If you are angry, Chisera, turn it against our enemies of Castac.