i
- There is a raid on the settlement and Achille's ancestors are taken as slaves, though he is somehow left behind.
- The settlement is empty.
ii
- Achille watches his captured tribe disappear from sight, and then walks back through the village. He sees only one child.
- He steps into one of the huts and finds Seven Seas grieving. Strangely, he sees no dead, no women in the emptied village.
- Achille grieves because he knows that he can't change their fate—and because he knows what awaits them on the other side of the Atlantic.
iii
- Achille finds an oar for a weapon and then swims the river in the hope that he can ambush the captors before they get too far.
- He smashes the head of an archer who falls behind. Achille grieves for the man he killed.
- There is a moment when he feels he can deliver his tribe from slavery—but then he catches his foot on a vine and crashes to the ground.