What actually happens in this little chunk of our story can be summed up quickly. Our heroes return to Dallas and rest up while Tobey regenerates in a disgusting fasion, amazingly staying out of trouble. Doctor Vorpwhistle works on a replacement for his missing eye, but with no results.

There's also a fair amount of debate about the meaning of Elder Tanner's peculiar dream, which takes up the rest of the log. In it, he is Ten Jaguar, Aztec priest of an unpronoucable war god, trying to figure out what to do about a renegade priest.

Collected Handouts (by way of background)

The whole thing gets rolling when Four Flint discusses his reservations with Ten Wind and they go to talk to One Monkey, the most accessible of the priests. He consults Six Reed, who says: "A man, a plan, a canal, panama" which helps no one. He also repeats the thing about how this isn't the real world. They go to consult Ten Jaguar. No one really knows what to do, and they decide to consult the gods and consider whether to try to get rid of Eight Motion or to subvert his followers or something else. Twelve Lizard shows up after a while and is strongly on the side of killing Eight Motion.

Sacrifices are performed with little result, although Eight Motion and the new temple probably have the most fun - they have volunteer sacrifices, who are eaten afterwards. One Monkey consults Six Reed again and again gets the thing about the different worlds, maybe three. He also watches the strange flower that Six Reed is obsessed with catch and eat a hummingbird - it's a giant sundew sort of a plant.

The priests reconvene and after hearing about the particularly heretical eating of the sacrifice decide to swing into action. Twelve Lizard reveals the magical dagger which will be able to kill Eight Motion, and says that Ten Jaguar must cut himself with it and then stab the heretic. They plan that Four Flint will arrange for Eight Motion to go to Ten Wind's house to discuss support for the new temple, and Ten Jaguar will be lurking there to kill him.

"It is easier for a llama to pass through a ball hoop than a wealthy prince to be worthy." - Eight Motion on wealth

One Monkey goes back to consult a little more about the plan, and asks Six Reed if he should bring Eight Motion to see Six Reed, but the old man is emphatically and coherently against that idea. "It's hard to work on a layer when you haven't made it" he says. There's a little more priestly conferring after this, and One Monkey reveals the trapped hummingbird to Ten Jaguar, who wonders if this is maybe some omen of a trap set by Twelve Lizard. Ten Jaguar finally thinks to ask Six Reed whether Eight Motion is of this world at all, and Six Reed tries to answer but instead coughs up a snake, and quickly dies of acute innards turned to snakes syndrome.

In the end, however, he goes through with the plan in its entirety and stabs Eight Motion to death in a darkened room in Ten Wind's house, and Elder Tanner awakens at that point.

Elder Tanner's interpretation of the dream