Kana killed Jelani and eviscerated Makena in front of Tau’s mother. He made her watch it all and then he put out her eyes with fire-heated bronze, so that her daughter’s murder and her husband’s butchery would be the last things she ever saw. Blinded and bound to the bottom of the pole on which they strung up Makena, Tau’s mother had listened to her husband dying for a day and night.