Red Prophet Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 12: Cannons and Chapter 13: Eight-Face Mound Summary

Chapter 12: Cannons and Chapter 13: Eight-Face Mound Summary

Harrison gives Measure two choices after letting him spend the night in jail. The first is to tell the people at home that Ta-Kumsaw tortured both him and Alvin, thereby ensuring war, or have his body produced, although the latter is merely implied. Measure tells him that if he lets him go, he'll say nothing either way, about Ta-Kumsaw or Harrison's confinement, but that isn't good enough. He tells Mike Fink to treat him like a typical Red would, and before Measure can think too much he is gagged and Mike has broken his leg. Fink doesn't stop until Measure has broken arms, legs, ribs and neck.

Ta-Kumsaw takes Alvin to Licking River and the Land of Flints. That night he dreams of the Eight-Face Mound again. Ta-Kumsaw had already caught fish for breakfast, but Alvin doesn't want it. Just as he...
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