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In the grandfathers' time, when few yet living had been born, folks worshipped the horses, and dished up him, and took the presents that he gave them: his meats, his cover, the dairy of his mares. But he had not yet granted to men the best gift of all: the present of traveling on his backside, and race the wind. Sparrow is a shaman's little princess in a tribe that forbids women to be kings, to be shamans, to be anything but silent and tractable servants to the all-powerful men. They might not ever trip the horses that are the life and heart and soul of the tribe, or even approach them, for concern with angering the gods. But Sparrow recognizes another story, a story of the woman who first rode a horses, and her brother who took both the horses and the glory from her. Sparrow perceives visions and dreams dreams - and her brother the shaman can take them from her and presents them as his own. Then the most sacred of all horses, the embodiment of Equine Goddess herself, says Sparrow on her behalf servant, and transmits her over a journey that will change Sparrow and her people forever.
