Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Tracker acquiesces to the Inquisitor’s request to read his testimony (italicized text representing the written document) aloud. It broadly outlines some of the plot details that Tracker fills in later: how they found the boy, but lost him several years later, and how he died at the end of the second search.

There are notable omissions—the years between searches in Mitu—and the record shows a line of questioning by “Inquest” (98) about one of these years in a Q&A format (still italicized). The (written) testimony also includes a description of Tracker attacking the Inquisitor from the Inquisitor’s perspective.

Tracker expands the textual testimony to include the beatings the guard gave him after his attack. He also smells domestic violence on the Inquisitor.

The guards changing Tracker into Nigiki slave robes cause him to recall how he allowed someone to sell him into slavery and had oral sex with the master’s wife. He interrupts himself, saying “you” expect the death of the husband, but Tracker just humiliated the master and left.

When asked about the mingi children, he describes how the conflict between the Ku and Gangatom gets in the way of visiting them, but he does see some of them.