Chapter Thirteen
The Light of the WorldIt was the longest day in White Deer’s life. When her weeping was over, she left her father’s lodge and wandered into the forest. Her heart was filled with terrible and unknowable emotions as she walked the familiar paths, searching for something that seemed lost to her forever. She looked for that contentment which had always been hers in the deep, hidden places of the forest, but instead of the sweet song of the forest birds or the chirrup of the black squirrels, she heard only the words of her father:
“It is said that the men with pale skin will offer two paths to the Lenape—the way of peace and great prosperity, or the way of death.”
The hours slipped by as she sought the fastness of dark, shaded hollows where the light of day did not reach; sh
