Contents

1. Title Page
2. Maps
3. Epigraph
4. BOOK ONE – Lake Ka
5. I A Bundle Wrapped in Soft Deerskin
6. II Displaying the Baby
7. III The Iceberg
8. IV Kicking a Child
9. V The Lost Cries of Children
10. VI Leadership and Infection
11. VII Cat’s Cradle
12. VIII Something So Obvious
13. IX Friends Must Stick Together
14. X The Blazed Track
15. XI Imagining Things
16. XII Promise and the Secret of Fire
17. XIII Dreams of Dreams
18. XIV Death on the Skids
19. XV A Flash of White
20. XVI “It Works!”
21. XVII Cold Kiss
22. BOOK TWO – Lake Tip
23. XVII “Be Rabbits!”
24. XIX “Bears Don’t Have Horns.”
25. XX The Smell and the Sound
26. XXI The Feast
27. XXII Puli’s Pattern
28. XXIII The Terrible Noise
29. XXIV A Good Trade
30. XXV By the River Rushing By
31. XXVI Something for Chak
32. XXVII Paku’s Leg
33. XXVIII Lifting the Danger
34. XXIX Twelve Again
35. XXX “It’s My Story Now.”
36. XXXI What Tupu Found
37. XXXII The Ooze
38. XXXIII The Wooden Doll
39. XXXIV The Satisfied Mind
40. XXXV Thirteen
41. About the Author
42. Also by Jack Lasenby
43. Copyright