Karana's leg is injured to the point that by the time she reaches her home she has trouble crawling under the fence. Five days go by before she runs out of water and is forced to leave to get some more. She crawls to the spring, slowly carrying food on her back while dragging her weapons. Around noon she stops to rest and sees the leader of the wild dogs and then the rest of the pack. They stop when they see her as well. When Karana lifts her bow the dogs fade away, as if they had never been there.
Karana continues to crawl and when she reaches the spring she lays on the ground to drink. She then fills her basket and crawls toward the mouth of a cave where she again.....
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