“The ones that become angered by you,” Telmet said, “and possess you, causing you to speak in strange tongues and forsake your ancestors.”

“I am my ancestor,” I said.

Telmet glared at me angrily for a moment before turning to my right and pointing at a log. Without saying anything I grabbed one end of the log while he grabbed the other and started carrying it back to the settlement. I could still feel him glowering at me from behind as we walked. Telmet was older than me but we both came of age over the last warm season so both of us would be given wives. He resented me because our father thought that the spirits would inhabit me when I was having one of my childhood panic attacks. Because of thi...

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