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I lie on the dirt floor and look up at the ceiling or through the small gaps in the mud walls. My world is composed of bits and pieces of that larger world mother tells me about. Through the gaps of it, I see fragments of the sun and sky. I glimpse an ankle from a villager running by, the blur of a stone kicked by children’s legs, agile and strong.  \nMore than these fragments of images, my world is composed of sounds. Women pounding out roots, whispering to each other. The crackling of early-morning fires. Grunts of men stringing bows, sinew and wood tightening, slaps on arms and legs to warm themselves, getting ready for the hunt. And the cry of the itsá marking its territory as it wheels and turns, high in the heavens, and, far away, the haunting sound of the ndołkahs calling with their big cat calls to each other in the hills.  \nI do not go outside into the light, because the dust sickens me even more than the smoke from the fire inside. I cast no shadow. Sometimes, I wonder if I could ever cast one.  \nI have a constant companion just the same, not one of light or darkness but one of sound. It is the sound of my own breath,  \nThe Strongest Boy  \ngurgling and spitting. I have always had it. I am so used to it that if they found some magic way to remove the fluid that constantly fills my lungs, I wouldn’t know what to do. It would feel like a death in the family. Lately, I’ve thought it must have been a burden for my mother to lie with me, night after night, listening to my laboured breathing, my wheezing the only sound save the lice lowering themselves from the roof, creeping down the walls, searching out skin to pierce and suck.  \nIf my mother was annoyed by this she never said so. In fact, she said she liked the noise. She called me her beautiful Tooh, which means ‘river’ in her language, because she comes from the Navajo people, while my father’s people are Ndee. (She was taken away from her people when she was very young, but she still speaks their words alone with me.)  \nMother said that as she fell asleep, listening to me breathe, she imagined a wide, beautiful river, the light glinting off it like precious rocks, and rainbow trout—hundreds of them—jumping in the sun. She said I was her whole world, that I made her heart happy and light, that she couldn’t imagine life without me.  \nThe things she said were beautiful, but it must have been hard for her. Her husband, Kuruk, was the leader of our village. He was a big man, a strong man, like his namesake the bear. He could outrun, out-swim, out-wrestle anyone.  \nOne evening he smoked the pipe and, inspired, chased his animal spirit, the great bear, down the mountain. He ran through the woods in the moonless night, running after the spirit that flew deep into the caves underground, unseen by the rest ofus.  \nHe returned at dawn, and I could see from my position on the floor that his feet were bloody and pulverised, with thorns sticking into them. Later that day I heard whispering in the village. They said there was not a scratch on the rest of his body—on his face or arms or chest—because he was a true man, and the spirit had led him safely down the mountain, between branches and over stones.  \nHe died when I was very young, in the hunt for the wapiti. 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