Daunis is trying to figure out how much deception she can live with and what she can do to make the deception easier to swallow. Avoiding Auntie is necessary for Daunis because Auntie knows Daunis so well—the other Elders know Daunis, of course, but they haven’t been such a constant presence in her life the way Auntie has. However, Daunis can’t entirely escape her aunt, as she discovers when Auntie seems poised to stage an intervention.