Sage Sterling in Hillside Hamlet. Assumed a Silly Girl by the Shen family, she uses her skills. Eli Shaw guards ginseng fields with her. She repels Darlene Lowe's raid with a vine net. She exposes Gareth Zeller's forest scheme with the Mountain Forest Phenology Record. Jasper Booth supports her. Marty the Pockmarked is arrested. At trial, she holds a charred wood fragment. At Green Peak Mountain, she ties a red string to a girl's braid.