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Updated: May 10, 2025
"'Why do you not eat, M'toulin, for we had taught one another a few words of our own speech. "'I am not hungry, I told her. "'While I eat I can see that your throat is working with hunger, she insisted. And it was true I could have snatched the meat from her like a wolf, but because of my vow I would not.
The girl was asleep when I laid her down, but toward morning she woke, and the moment I looked in her eyes, I knew that whatever they had stoned her for at Owenunga, her eyes were friendly. "'M'toulin, she said, which is the word in her language for Shaman, 'what will you do with me? "There was nothing I could do but take her to my mother as quickly as possible.
As we watched the flame lick it up, all thought of killing went out of my head like the smoke of sacrifice, and my thought was good again. "When the meat she had eaten had made her strong, Nukewis sat up and crossed her hands on her bosom. "'M'toulin, she said, 'the evil that has come on you belongs to me. I will go away with it. I am a witch and bring evil on those who are kind to me.
"'M'toulin, there is a knife at your belt; why have you not killed the moose to make meat for us? "'Eight moons I have done no killing, seeking the Vision and the Voice, I told her. 'It is more than my life to me. "When I had finished, she reached over with the last piece of rabbit and laid it on the fire. It was a sacrifice.
But listen, M'toulin, by now the people are back in their winter home. It is more than two days from here. If you go without me, they will give you food and shelter, but with me you will have only hard words and stones. Therefore, I leave you, M'toulin. She stood up, made a sign of farewell. "'You must show me the way to your village first, I insisted.
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