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Both had given life to the other, and would do so again. No debt was owed or felt, only the bond of true allies, and their common love for the woman-child, which no words could express. Still, Kalus felt moved to make some sign. He reached over and touched her throat, then said with his hands: 'With my life. Understanding, the wolf simply lowered his head in acknowledgment.
An era born of the violence of men was slowly passing. Kalus turned without ceremony or awareness and made his way back to the path. He climbed without feeling, or knowing where he was, and heard a voice inside him say it was all right, he still had the woman. Then all at once he felt the fullness of what he had learned, and knelt down and leaned forward against the cold indifferent stone.
She understood, and kept a warm secret of the fact that her menstrual cycle was now a week overdue. Under other circumstances, Kalus might have fallen in love with the rigors and lessons of farming, which taught patience and perseverance, and returned the most beautiful and honest of rewards: Life itself.
As the sun rose, dazzling, across the vast Atlantic, one of its urchins stood up among the wave-ends and stepped cautiously ashore. Alerted by the sixth sense that every hill-man must possess, Kalus opened his eyes and remained perfectly still. There in the clear light of morning, he witnessed a scene that recalled to him the simple act of kindness that had changed his life forever.
'Thank you. She screwed back the cap, set down the flask and went outside. Kalus held the long point in his hand, adjusted it several times in the slot. When he had marked the best fitting in his mind, he withdrew it and placed one edge against a flat rock on the floor, then drew out his round hammer-stone and carefully chipped away at either side of the base. It was delicate work.
'What on earth made you ask that? 'Oh, nothing really. Just curious. She wished he would stop looking at her that way. 'Yes I have. Once, with Kalus. We..... It was peyote. 'How much did you do? 'Two buttons each. One right away..... Why are you laughing? 'Two peyote buttons, and you think you've seen it all. Ha!
This life was the only one he knew, his mind and heart the only guides he would ever have in it. And as he half-tearfully dried himself, he felt moved as he rarely had been. He went down on his knees, clutched his hands before him, and said to the nameless God. 'Thank you for my life. Again the two made love, and for Kalus the beauty and release were no less than on their first such communion.
He had given her her freedom', and seemed intent on exercising his own, no matter what his words might say. But the bed was still empty, and her thoughts still vague and rootless, without Kalus there beside her. She felt again the primal urge to go to him, just go to him, and renew their bond through physical love. But remembering the pain of her last submission to it, she stubbornly refused.
For he knew that his destiny had been changed forever, and that life could never again be the way it was before. Truly alone for the first time in his life, Kalus wandered aimlessly, trying to put back the pieces of all that had happened, and think of the things he must now do to survive. Though rarely forced to do it, he knew he was capable of hunting on his own.
In truth she thought little during those final days, following out the treadmill of her plan in a kind of dull stupor, unable, for the pain it cost her, to listen to her heart and turn aside. Her scheme, if such a name can be given to walking wide-eyed into a trap, was to sleep with him at a time and place where Kalus would either witness it directly, or hear of it straight away.
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