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with even darker tattoos, blurred by the eighty winters of his life.

тАЬI felt it,тАЭ Skin Eater murmured. тАЬDo you know what it was?тАЭ

тАЬNo,тАЭ Red Shoes admitted. тАЬSomething important, something strong. My
shadowchildren died bringing it to me.тАЭ

тАЬFrom the West.тАЭ

тАЬYes. Since the strange news from the West began, I have sent my children out
to watch. Now they have seen something.тАЭ

тАЬWest is a big place,тАЭ Skin Eater observed.

тАЬI know. But my shadowchildren tell me no more than that. If only I knew
where in the WestтАжтАЭ Red Shoes trailed off, thinking.

Skin Eater reflected for a moment as he lit his own pipe. тАЬYou are more
powerful than ever I was,тАЭ he said, тАЬperhaps the strongest there has ever been.



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But your people are younger than mineтАФthere are things the Natchez
remember that the Choctaw do not.тАЭ

тАЬI acknowledge that, great-uncle.тАЭ It was a title of respect, only. He was not
related to the old man.

Skin Eater swept his arms around. тАЬThis place is an image of the worldтАФdo
you see? The deeps of the beginning times below and around us, the earth
raised up with a face for each direction. The flat top here is the whole surface
of the middle world. Like those paintings on paper the French use.тАЭ

тАЬYou mean a map? But maps have things marked on them. Rivers, mountains,
townsтАФтАЭ

тАЬBut if a town should move, will it move on a French map? Not unless they
draw another map, yes? Here, however, you have only to know how to look.
Here, the world can always be seen true.тАЭ

Red Shoes frowned slightly as the implications of the old manтАЩs words sunk in.
He took another puff of his pipe, and began chanting, walking in widening
circles upon the top of the mound, giving smoke to the directions. His feet
sank back into the world of spirit, of dream.