The results of the surprise were nine scalps and one captive.

This captive was a little boy, and that boy was Nacaytzusle.
Although barely three years old, he was dragged to the Rito and had to take part in the solemn dance, during which the scalps of his parents were triumphantly waved by those who had killed them.

Afterward he was adopted into the Turquoise clan, for the people of the Eagle clan refused to receive him, the privilege of so doing being theirs.
Topanashka disliked the appearance of the child, and his counsels weighed heavily.

Thus Nacaytzusle became an adopted son of the Queres, but it did not change his nature.

His physique at once indicated foreign origin; he grew up to be taller, more raw-boned, than the youth of the House people, and his dark, wolfish look and the angular cut of his features betrayed his Dinne blood.
Like all the other youth, he received the rude education which was imparted at the estufas.