“What are they, Creb?” Ayla signaled quietly, motioning upward. “Fires in the sky. Each one is the hearth of someone’s spirit in the otherworld.” “Are there so many people?” “They are the fires of all the people who have gone to the world of the spirits, and all the people not yet born. They are the fires of totems’ spirits, too, but most totems have more than one. See those over there?” Creb pointed. “That is the home of Great Ursus himself. And see those?” He pointed in another direction. “They are the fires of your totem, Ayla, the Cave Lion.” “I like sleeping out where you can see the
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