During her recovery True has more time to spend with Christa Belle and we see the results of having more than enough contact with Christa Belle. However, True also spends more time with Helen Hampton and getting to know True has a positive and broadening affect on the house mother. After the lemur in the dorm incident True smudges her room and after awakening she notes “ she’d been captured and imprisoned by plaster. But restraint had come to teach her a lesson. She felt pure and ready to learn.” True does use this time to consider her life, her future and her past. She confronts the end of her career as a horse diver and considers her options for employment going forward. She tells Crawford “ this leg has given me time to just be. To go back to tradition..” However she also notes that her inactivity has forced her to recognize the “world inside her and the world unseen were every bit as engaging as the world she’d always inhabited.” She begins to practice the stillness of her people, “listening and being , seeing the unseen and the fleeting,” and this also allowed her to further connect with the animals. She realizes that “death doesn’t break ties of kinship and affection… the dead were immediate , close to the living.” It is during this learned stillness that Two becomes more sensitive to Little Elk’s presence. She also begins to move more fully into the present as her ability to be still improves.