The next day, the party camps near Woman Don’t Walk butte. Fast Horse searches for the ice spring from his dream but cannot find it, and Yellow Kidney worries that Fast Horse’s rashness will lead their party into trouble. After four more days of traveling, they stop to rest near a Napikwan trading fort. Yellow Kidney takes Eagle Ribs aside and tells him to go scout out the camp of Bull Shield, a Crow chief who is a long-time enemy of the Pikunis. As the men sit around the fire, Yellow Kidney tells the group that they will travel through the night and strike the camp of the infamous Bull Shield.

As the men approach the Crow camp, Yellow Kidney tells White Man’s Dog to lead all the men besides Fast Horse, Eagle Ribs, and himself in taking the horses back to Woman Don’t Walk butte. After informing them of the plan, White Man’s Dog leads the four other men into the camp, where they mount horses and coax many others with them as they ride away. As they are leaving the camp, it begins to snow, and White Man’s Dog thinks that Cold Maker must be helping them by covering their tracks.