As long as people mourned, nobody would care for her.

After the official mourning was over the council would be convened and the campaign announced.

Thereupon all the men who had to take part would have to retire for the customary fasts and purifications, and the Yaya and the Chayani would have to work heavily.
Her home was not likely to be visited by any one for a number of days, and when the warriors of the Queres were on the march nobody would call them back because she had disappeared from the Rito.
Perfectly at rest in regard to her own future, reassured as to the fate of Say Koitza, Shotaye had, on the night of the second day after the murder of Topanashka, left her home and climbed to the northern mesa without meeting any obstacle.

When the sun rose, she found herself quite near the place which Cayamo, as far as she understood, had designated as the spot where his friend Teanyi would wait for her.

Unacquainted with the real distance that separates the Rito from the cave-dwellings above Santa Clara, she had underrated it; and it was only at noon, after she had spent hours walking through the pine timber and in fruitless waiting, that a man stepped up to her from behind a tree and called out,-- "Teanyi!" Then he added, "Cayamo," and inquired, "Shotaye ?" He was the looked-for and longed-for delegate; and when the sun stood at its height, the two were travelling toward the Puye together.
Shotaye attempted to convey the idea to her companion that the Queres were upon the point of moving upon the Tehuas in force.