"The Revenge of Leah" is the title of this chapter's epigraph. It's a quote from the play "The Merchant of Venice," a famous play about a young woman who loses everything in life to a greedy merchant. The girl in question, abby, is the heroine of the play. She's the one who lost everything to the greedy merchant, and she lives in the house of the girl's friend, the boy. The boy asks the girl if she'd like to see her mom soon, and the girl tells him that she hasn't seen her mom in a long time. She says that she broke a town law when she was a young child and was supposed to go to the guardian's cave to pray. But after a while, no one showed up to pray with her, so she got scared and ran back to the town to find her mom. But no one came back for her after that, and so she ran back again to the cave to look for her mom, but she never came back. She thinks that she's been a bad child because she broke the law, but the girl says that's just not true, because her mom loves her and she loves her. The town doesn't have enough mouths to feed, so people just pray alone in the cave, which is a convenient excuse for towns to lower the number of people they feed. This is a gross generalization, and it's not uncommon for small mountain towns to do