"You paying for the story on top of the body?"

The Colonel wakes to Caroline’s dream of power over him and his men, the war chief and what lays ahead.

"Keep Your Pain Inside, Like the Rest of Us."

Sherriff John Newman is now Caroline’s prisoner. The war chief is wary but agrees to Caroline’s plan because time is running out.

"She's Dead...You Left Her for Dead."

Sheriff John Newman and Caroline are reunited in a way that they neither expected or know how to get out of.

I Want to Hunt Men. The time to leave has come. Caroline will not hide and slip away quietly. She will not run. She will march south among a column of warriors.

"The Girl Whose One Hand was Painted in Venom, the Other, a Rattle."

Caroline surpasses all men and beasts in the field.

"Walking as a Woman, Becoming Once Again, an Animal." Caroline’s adopted father delivers her to the healer and provides a path for her to grow into whomever she chooses to become. He would track her down, not to save her but to watch her, like the spectator of a beautiful sport and smiled, knowing she was integrated with the world around her and had surpassed him in the way of hunting beasts.

"Although It Was Not Perfect, It Was a Plan."

Caroline has learned enough about her captors and her environment to plan her escape back into the sea of grass and to the south. She needs provisions and a horse and time, none of which is easy.

"And Then Twitched in Vain."

Caroline wakes up in a new world. She doesn’t know where she is and doesn’t understand the language. To some degree she is welcomed but she cannot leave so she turns her mind to observing everything and learning as much as possible.

Seamus’ Notes:
The setting of episodes 11-15 is based on Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle and Caroline’s experiences are drawn from writings about the experiences of native American captives in central Texas in the mid 1800’s. I tried to combine that geologic setting, which is hundreds of millions of years old, with enduring human behavior to create a reasonable projection of what Caroline’s experience would be like.