Teneve (story)

Teneve is the second story in the second Orphans book, To Bell The Cat. It follows Ress as she undergoes the rite of passage known as Teneve, which requires here to spend a night alone in the wilderness.

It is revealed that Ress had planned for this, and that the true purpose of the solo excursions made by Jarissy in the book Earth Colony was to find a safe place for Ress to wait out the night. Jarissy found such a place-- an earlier and abandoned Martian ship. Having previously been told by her sister Kellin that earlier Martian scientists had installed safe rooms with supplies and weapons, Ress decided that she would be the one to "discover" the ship on the Teneve, so as to bolster her position with the colony. When Ress found it increasingly difficult to keep Jarissy quiet about it, Ress poisoned Jarissy. It was this poison that weakened Jarissy so that the old rex could kill her.

Secretly shadowed by the Twain, Ress follows signs made by Jarissy and finds the ship.