After Anamaya's been captured by Inca raiders who kill her mother, she gains the attention of Huyana Capac himself. The dying Inca ruler believes that the girl with eyes as blue as the waters of the sacred Lake Titicaca has been sent to ensure his passage to the Other World by Quilla the Moon Goddess and ignores his advisers' requests to sacrifice her. In his deathbed, Huyana Capac confides to Anamaya secrets regarding the past and the future of the Inca Empire, but afterwards the girl can't remember the specifics.