Summary

Zits stays in the camp while he hears the battle raging on. As a student of history in his own life, Zits already knew that the Indian forces would win the battle in a blowout. After it is over, the Indians walk around the battlefield and “desecrate” the many dead bodies of the white soldiers (73), which distresses Zits. Eventually he is summoned to a group of the Indian warriors, who are surrounding a young, terrified white boy, whom they have taken captive. It is clear to Zits that he is expected to cut the throat of the white boy, and render him mute, as retribution for the same injury that the Indian boy (whose body Zits is occupying) had apparently suffered. Zits, not wishing to injure the boy, closes his eyes and hopes that he somehow leaves the situation.

Zits does leave the...