When the songs finally ended, Kira still felt the sorrow from being unable to thread freely. She walked miserably up to her room, but soon heard a cheerful voice from Matt: "IT'S HERE! THE BIG GIFTIE!" Apparently, there had been a bigger gift from Matt, and it was delivered by a blind man. He had walked all the way to the village, and he had woad in his hands, the plant that makes the color blue.
Kira fed him and took care of the blind man, and he had been so secretive the whole day of who he is and where he came from. Finally, he told Kira who he was at night.
Christopher, the man who Kira should call Father.
Kira, at first, had no idea what to do. Then she told him to stay here, where it was safe. He would be taken care of and would have nothing to worry about. She also told him about Jamison and how he kept her safe.
Then Christopher said that men knocked him out, and some people not from the village came and healed him. The people had always offered him eyes to lead him, and everyone with a weak spot would be helped. He liked that village, instead of Kira's village were the weak were cast aside. Then he added, "Jamison was there when men knocked me out. He was the one who did."
Kira tried to put these pieces together: Kira, Jo, and Thomas are all artists; they are all orphans; their parents all died; Christopher was almost killed.
When the "artists" are discovered, the parents are killed.
The next day, Christopher leaves town. He told Kira maybe he'd come back one day to see his daughter that he had missed all his life away from her, or maybe Kira would come to see Christopher in his happy village.
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