Summer is nervous going into the conversation with Okota. It seems she was right to be--as soon as Okota sees the coyote, she starts hissing and spitting and hurling accusations that Summer is a heretic, the descendant and the mother of thieves. It briefly looks like Summer is going to retreat with her tail between her legs, but she abruptly finds her resolve and locks eyes with Okota...and surprisingly, when she demands Okota stop her snarling and speak with her, Okota does so.
Being in Okota's presence and discussing what happened when the totem was originally stolen seems to unlock more of the ancestral memories Ienzo discovered Summer possesses, and she begins to argue on behalf of Brother Gray, the coyote who first stole the totem and caused the downfall of Okota's religion. Summer and Okota disagree vehemently on the causes and effects. Okota argues that Brother Gray and his cohort took away the gifts of all the other mammals to selfishly force them to adapt to a new civilization that best suited the coyotes, raccoons, and rats. Summer argues that Okota was holding them back--that the truce at the old temple to allow visitors to worship without fear of being eaten was proof that mammals could coexist peacefully without eating one another, and that Okota and the faithful members of their priesthood were forcing violence on a world whose people no longer wanted to live in the old ways.
Following the conversation, Summer's position is this: 1. She stands by what Brother Gray did--unchecked in the old days, Okota and their priesthood had actively prevented the mammals from developing a peaceful multispecies society. She does not want the totem returned to Okota. 2. She feels sorry for Okota, but does not trust them. She does not want to enact revenge or punishment, but she does want to prevent Okota from hurting people (including enacting their plan to turn people savage). 3. Summer was able to get Okota to confirm during the conversation that her aspect is Instinct. Summer thinks that instinct is not without its place in the modern world--indeed, she muses that Wyatt seems to have the totem based on an instinctual reaction to being in its presence.
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Being in Okota's presence and discussing what happened when the totem was originally stolen seems to unlock more of the ancestral memories Ienzo discovered Summer possesses, and she begins to argue on behalf of Brother Gray, the coyote who first stole the totem and caused the downfall of Okota's religion. Summer and Okota disagree vehemently on the causes and effects. Okota argues that Brother Gray and his cohort took away the gifts of all the other mammals to selfishly force them to adapt to a new civilization that best suited the coyotes, raccoons, and rats. Summer argues that Okota was holding them back--that the truce at the old temple to allow visitors to worship without fear of being eaten was proof that mammals could coexist peacefully without eating one another, and that Okota and the faithful members of their priesthood were forcing violence on a world whose people no longer wanted to live in the old ways.
Following the conversation, Summer's position is this:
1. She stands by what Brother Gray did--unchecked in the old days, Okota and their priesthood had actively prevented the mammals from developing a peaceful multispecies society. She does not want the totem returned to Okota.
2. She feels sorry for Okota, but does not trust them. She does not want to enact revenge or punishment, but she does want to prevent Okota from hurting people (including enacting their plan to turn people savage).
3. Summer was able to get Okota to confirm during the conversation that her aspect is Instinct. Summer thinks that instinct is not without its place in the modern world--indeed, she muses that Wyatt seems to have the totem based on an instinctual reaction to being in its presence.