Chapter 14
Canada, Twenty-Eight Years Ago
Noshi removed his gloves. With two fingers, he closed his child’s eye lids, and pulled him from his wife’s arms. He held his dead son close, burying his face in the child’s jacket. He let out a single cry of anguish then carried Sheshebens’ body outside. The boy followed and watched Noshi dig a hole and lay his brother to rest, covering him with handfuls of snow, mounding and packing it down hard. Noshi stood, lifted his arms to the sky and sang the Song for the Dead.
The boy remembered the song from when Grandpa Segenan died. Although he didn’t understand the words, the boy understood their meaning. The song would help his brother’s spirit fly to the afterworld. So the boy sang, too, following the lyrics best he could, his arms stretched overhe
