Is it so that the Medicine Worker sometimes fails?

Pamaquash

Medicine men have died at it before now—and better so, for otherwise they should have died by the law.

Yavi

Is that the law?

Pamaquash

Surely, surely. For of what use is an advocate with the gods if he cannot get to them. It would be so with the Chisera.

(As the preparations have gone forward, the sound of the drums and rattles, with an occasional subdued whoop, has drawn nearer, and the Fighting Men, led by the Chief, in full fighting gear, arrive in single file marching to the drums. The procession halts in the open space before the Chisera's hut.)

Chief

Let the Council sit.