 Many long years ago, the story began in the village of Sin Rook by the Western Sea. There was an old woman named Nasarook and her granddaughter Panarook. Neither hunted for food, hunting was the duty of men. So these two women, who lived alone, gathered plants and leaves all through the brief growing seasons and saved them in poke bags for the hard winters to come. And then one springtime, just as the birds were returning and the snow was melting and the rivers were beginning to run,