Vessia found Danumoro in a place where people lived on three hills, which they called the Tors of Yellow Bear tribehold. The people here wore much gold and they snickered at Vessia when she walked the rows between their houses without even a single gold necklace to grace her neck. “Another grubby exile from the Rainbow Labyrinth," the women commented loudly to one another as she passed. “I don't mind the outtriber Initiates, at least they pay their way, but the exiles are too much. Dirty beggars."
Danumoro, in contrast, expressed delight that she had come. His only disappointment was that she had not come to marry him.
“The local secret society here knows I am a Yellow Tavaedi, but the dances I know are different than theirs, so I do not dance with them," he explained to Vessia. “But the
