Epilogue
TWO BEAR WOULD ONLY go so far, and then he just pointed.
Abraham Golightly walked out into the circle of the ashes, his moccasins hushing down into the cinders. He had never seen ground burned so hard before, like the fire had been riled beyond reason and had howled across the bottom of this valley eating in a great burning rage.
And that is when he saw it, patiently waiting for him in the heart of the charred ground.
Abraham saw a tree poked out in the dirt. A jack pine, ripped and rooting up from out of the ashes, like it was trying to reach up and tear a chunk out of the heart of the bright blue sky.
Abraham had never seen a more pissed-off looking tree in his life before.
It did not surprise him any to find it here. Jack pines needed fire to spread. There was something i
