THE GIRL GROANED WITH exertion.
"It's too much, Samuel. I can't do any of what you're asking me to do. I'm not strong enough and I can't track like you."
The girl sat on the ground, a picture of utter dejection, while the older man laughed. His braids shone in the sun like snow on metal and she thought that he must be the strongest man in the world. It had taken time for her to understand what had happened that day in the sweat lodge, but slowly she came to realize that he wasn't just a medicine man. Samuel had his own gifts. He could speak with animals and had a sixth sense about where they would go and what the weather would be like. He'd been working with the girl on tracking animals, but she felt she'd never be able to do anything as well as he could, especially with her vision being
