How It All Goes Down
Bargains, Covenants, and Promises
- Half-asleep on the beach, Daphne spends a lot of time thinking about her pre-crash life.
- When she wakes up, they try and have another meal together. This one goes a little better, even if it does give them gas and send them into fits of giggles.
- After the meal, the parrot squawks, "Show us yer drawers!" (4.80) and the Grandfathers in Mau's head command "REPLACE THE GOD ANCHORS!" (4.85).
- Mau decides to do the second one.
- The god anchors are special giant stones that the tsunami tossed into the lagoon.
- Mau retrieves the anchors for the god of Air and the god of Fire, then he sits around and hates on the gods a lot for letting all his people die.
- Daphne breaks up the blasphemous pity party by trying to communicate with Mau.
- By drawing in the sand and talk. ing. slow. ly. to. each. oth. er, they make some headway in understanding each other.
- Suddenly, Daphne spots a canoe on the horizon.
- A priest and a woman who just gave birth arrive on the island. The woman is too ill to nurse, and the baby is starving.
- Unfortunately, the priest, named Ataba, arrives just in time to hear Mau blaspheme the gods. He gives Mau the charming nickname of "demon boy" (4.253).