“When a man or a woman knew it was their time, they would leave the village and walk up into the hills. They would walk high into the Kaydeross Range that rises above Greenfield Center, until they came to a certain place they had chosen long ago. There they would sit and watch their last sunset. Then their spirit would start its walk up into the stars. And the birds and the animals and the stones and earth of the mountain would take back their flesh and their bones.”
